What’s the craziest stain you’ve ever had to clean?

WELL, IT WASNT EXACTLY CLEANED.  I HAD SPILLED KETCHUP (OR CATSUP!) ON A RED DRESS WHILE AT WORK.  COULDNT LEAVE THE DESK I WAS CHAINED TO IN ORDER TO REMOVE IT, SO IT DRIED.  A FEW DAYS LATER WHEN I WAS GOING TO ATTACK THE STAIN, IT HAD EATEN A HOLE IN MY DRESS !!!!  AND, NO, IT DIDNT HAVE ANY HOT PEPPERS IN IT – JUST PLAIN OL’ KETCHUP – OR CATSUP.  INSTEAD OF ME ATTACKING THE STAIN, IT HAD ATTACKED MY DRESS!

My grandchildren actually bring stained clothing to my house because they “think” I am a stain removing machine.  I do not have any particular trick.  I start out with the basic stain removers and then just keep going from there.  If something is stained you aren’t going to wear it so my feelings are trying anything isn’t going to hurt it any worse than it already is.  So from there I just start grabbing everything in the house from silicone’s to toilet bowl cleaners and you name it and I’ve probably tried it.  I haven’t always been successful but I have to say I have a pretty good track record.  I think success is based on one’s determination that this stain will not beat me!!!

Partially regurgitated mouse parts!!  at  5 am!..Or at any time for that matter.

I usually scream for my Honey..but that’s like trying to wake the dead!..Or he just chooses to ignore me..

Hope you realize one of my kitties left it!

Not sure this counts because I was not able to clean it no matter how hard I tried!

When my boys were in grade school we purchased a brand new,  beautiful, red, Chevy Lumina and I loved it! As the years went by that “brand new smell” had long worn off and suddenly was replaced with a horrific odor. For the life of me I could not find where the odor was coming from. It got so bad that a co-worker walked by my car and asked me “What died in there?” Yup, it was that bad! 

Finally, after many sessions of searching for the source of the smell, I found it. A mouse had somehow gotten in to my car and squeezed through the hole that held the lower part of the shoulder belt. Got in but evidentally could not get out. The poor critter apparantly starved to death and turned into a gooey, stain making, pile of dried up hair, stinking mess! I got the remains vacuumed out and tried to clean the stain with all kinds of cleaners. Needless to say it was a very tight space so the stain remained. Lots of air freshener was used but the car never smelled good again!

Second worse stain award goes to another mess found only by the odor it left behind. My then toddler had a mystery, skunk like smell that wafted out of his bedroom and smacked us in the nose. Finally found the culprit in his closet. He took a tomato from our fridge, tried it, didn’t like it, and threw it in his closet where it was hidden by toys. 

Correction….. I worn the sweater to the wedding before it was marked.

A pre-k student using my beige sweater as a coloring book. I was working with another student as the time and finally felt a tug on my left arm. He was behind me using a black marker drawing lines on me. I was determined to get the stains out as I worn this sweater to my daughter’s outdoor wedding.

I don’t know if this is the craziest or embarassing stain:)

We were out eating and I had jelly running down my blouse and I don’t know how I got it on me I wasn’t eating anything with jelly

Hummmm???

Thank you for asking and good luck to all:)

Love,

Linda

xoxo

Well, some sort of insect expellent onto my arm. I don’t know who the culprit is, hopefully not my beautiful dragonflies, but I have been splattered by a mustard color fluid. If I didn’t get to the pool quikly, it would stain me. Strange, but that’s Florida.

eyeliner or cosmetic stains in general. oh, sigh.. xoxo

GAH!!!
My life is one big stain!
Thank God I love to shop and have enough clothes for 10 regular, non-messy,people.
….on the bright side, I’ll never run out of “around the house” or “project” clothes. :smileylol:

When we went to great adventure while it was still a drive thru worlds largest safari!Everyone was pointing at our vehicle and laughing! there was a grandpa baboonon our roof eating a banana!When we got finished we saw what was so funny there were his and another baby baboons paw marks all the way up our windshield and two loads of pool is one large one small smudged on the roof and of course they ran thru pee pee on the way no fun to clean up but a great LAUGH was had by all!Great show o many great new products hsn and super prices hsn great values!

Hair dye off a bathroom floor, red nail polish off a white shag carpet, mystery stains off of a throw pillow after a party.:womanfrustrated:

Hi Adam…well for me it was the most awful and gross stain(s) one can try to stomach! My friends and I had just gotten to my vehicle after a night of partying, I was designated driver and got everyone home safely. Well they got home safely,  but my vehicle didn’t fair so well…          

Next morning I had to go pick up my Mom and Sister for Sunday service, I was in my Sunday best feeling proud I was bright eyed and bushy tail…till I opened the car door…the most awful rancid smell came from somewhere!  I look in the back and there’s fresh vomit all over my back seats and one side door.

Needless to say, I had to stay home and take my car to a local car wash literally hose it down and scrub all the gunk! Totally disgusting…you might wonder,  why I didn’t notice this when it happened?  Well my car had about 6 drunk people in it, and music was blasting…Lol! Those were the good olé days! No one ever fessed up to it…oh well!   

I’m not sure which is crazier- the cat in the paint or my sisters neon orange cheeto vomit! :catsurprised: 

When I was in college, when I came home for the summer I worked in two big box/catalogue stores in many different departments,  This resulted in me now having many obscure and/or irrelevant job skills, like knowing how to mix paint, cut window shades, change watch batteries, use a old-fashioned cash register, and put cash in flying mail tubes that went to the top floor, got change, and flew back down.

However, I digress.  At one of those big box stores, we wore aqua smocks with a lower front pocket on each side.  It never failed, whatever pen you had would turn out to be a leaker, and you’d get big blue and black ink blots all over your smock.  This was unacceptable.

The trick I learned was to spray the ink blotches with hairspray, and then rinse and wash.  It worked like a dream.  I don’t know if it would still work, as hair spray used to have some pretty nasty high-test solvents in it–it’s much safer now ‘tho!