40 Of The Funniest Photos People Shared Under A ‘House Cleaning Fails’ Thread
Grievous errors and accidents can occur in the cleaning process unintentionally no matter how careful you try to be. We’ve all had moments where we’ve accidentally added bleach to coloured laundry, or spilt detergent all over the floor creating a slippery mess. Indeed there’s a myriad of other small things that can and do go wrong as many would attest to.
Scroll below to check out a list of anecdotes shared by folks who ended up in similar hilarious mishaps during a cleaning effort that rapidly deteriorated into a cleaning fail instead.
#1 I Tried Cleaning The Stain Off This Mug Until I Realized It’s Part Of The Design
WhyBother? : That’s 10 minutes of OP’s life gone
#2 I Clean Pools And Today I Knocked A Huge Potted Plant Into The Water
#3 My Brother And I Were Cleaning Out The Attic, But Then I Heard A Loud Crash And Saw This Above Me. I Chose To Take A Photo Before Asking Questions
WhyBother? : Uhhhh, hi there
#4 My Wife Wonders Why The Vacuum Hasn’t Been Working
Lulu John : Is she stuck in there?
#5 My Tenancy Ends Tomorrow After 2 Years In This Flat. Today, While Cleaning And Getting Everything Ready To Move Out, I Hit The Oven’s Door And Broke The Glass. Bye Bye Sweet Deposit Money
Stephanie Did It (edited): OP has all my sympathy. I’m moving Friday and the more tired I am, the clumsier I get. This sounds so much like something I’d do.
#6 Let’s Just Say That We Ended Up With Very Clean Laundry Room Floor… And Yes I’m An Idiot
ILoveMySon : I put regular liquid dish soap in the dishwasher when I was five and cleaned the floor as well.
#7 What Could Go Wrong When Neighbor Cleans Fireplace Into Recycle Bin
Candid Panda : My Mom once accidentally set a garage truck on fire by doing this. The embers stayed in the garage bin and when the truck came and emptied the bin the air must have ignited the garage and set the truck ablaze.
#8 I Hear Screaming Coming From The Living Room, Only To Find My 5-Year-Old Daughter On The Floor With Her Hair All Sucked Up & Tangled In Our Ilife Robot Vacuum
Sleestak : When robots attack!!!
#9 My Mom Erased Part Of The World While Cleaning My Globe
Lauren Caswell : Dr Evil approves 😆
#10 Got New Cargo Shorts And Accidentally Sat On A Stool That My Sister Was Cleaning With Clorox
𝙻𝚞𝚗𝚊 (𝚜𝚑𝚎/𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢) : Maybe soak the whole thing in Clorox to make it all that colour? It’s a nice purple imo
#11 When Your Flatmate Likes To Eat Seeds And Cleans The Floor Without Vacuuming First
𝙻𝚞𝚗𝚊 (𝚜𝚑𝚎/𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢) : Well… now you have a mini ecosystem??
#12 Washed My Measuring Cup And All The Lines And Numbers Came Off
Outstanding Scarecrow : Oh Well… at least it still measures 1 cup
#13 I Just Wanted To Clean The Window
WhyBother? : What window?
#14 I Was Emptying The Dishwasher And Found This “Clean” Glass Break
#15 My Dad Cleaned My Cat’s Litter Box With My Spatula While I Was Out Of Town
My dad is living with me at the moment. I was out of town for several days and came home to a spatula next to my cat’s litter box. The actual litter scoop was in the small closet in plain sight. He didn’t call or ask about the location.
#16 Moved 15 Times Over 30 Years With An Antique Vase My Grandma Gave Me. Today I Cleaned It For The First Time And It Slipped Out Of My Hands
flowingcomplexity : Time to learn Kintsugi
#17 Cleaning Your Toilet With Dishwasher Detergent
Stephanie Did It : Holdup…what goes into one neighbor’s toilet can end up in the other residents’ toilets also? Including but not limited to–soap?
#18 I Was Cleaning My Glasses And Then This Happened
Stephanie Did It : They look pretty angry about it, too.
#19 My Mother Was Cleaning The Attic
Lulu John : HOHOHOHOHOUGHOH
#20 I’m Doing Renovations And My Roomba Found A Tiny Piece Of Sheetrock
Lulu John : I think those things are so awful for so many reasons
#21 Home Alone Cleaning The Roof And Gutters When I Heard A Loud Bang
Lulu John : If you took the picture you have your phone
#22 After A Long Flight We Decided To Wash And Dry The Pillows. We Brought And Made Our Laundry Room Look Like A Bird Horror Movie
#23 Shower Door Didn’t Like Being Cleaned
Sleestak : Did you talk nice to it first?
#24 I Tried Cleaning My Oven Today
#25 I Cleaned My Glasses But Apparently There Was A Small Stone On The Cloth
Outstanding Scarecrow : And you cant see those pesky stones without your glasses
#26 Props To The New Roommate For Cleaning The Whole Kitchen, But She Scrubbed The Microwave Oven So Hard, All The Ink Came Off The Dials
Cindy Brick : She did a crappy job inside, though — yuck
#27 My Mom Was Just Finishing Cleaning The Kitchen And Then Spilled A Bag Of Chia Seeds On The Ground
#28 Spent Literally 6 Hours Yesterday Hand-Scrubbing, Soaking, And Vacuuming This Couch. Left My 2-Year-Old Alone For 5 Minutes In The Living Room
#29 So That’s How You Empty The Dust Container In A Vacuum
#30 I Was Washing The Dishes When The Sink Decided To Fall Out Of The Counter. First Time My Strange Habit Of Hoarding Large Bath Towels Has Proven Itself Useful
#31 Can’t Argue With Dyson Ads, It Does Have A Lot Of Suction
One taste of my iPhone cord, and in seconds, it was ripped from the wall and all wrapped up in. Thank goodness Dyson makes it easy to unravel this love triangle.
#32 My 3-Year-Old Thought It Would Be A Good Idea To Spray The TV With Water To “Clean” It
Aballi : I had no idea spraying a tv with water would do THAT!
#33 Half Of These Pants Shrunk In The Wash
Sleestak : Put ’em in again
#34 I Spent An Hour And A Half Cleaning The Kitchen. When I Finished I Thought I’d Make Coffee
#35 My Robot Vacuum Curled Up And Is Sleeping When It Should Be Working
Lulu John : So many examples of why these “suck”
#36 I Was Cleaning The BBQ… And Turned Around For 30 Seconds
Stephanie Did It : That, sir, is not a BBQ.
#37 Trying To Clean Your Oven
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! : The dark look really soots the chairs.
#38 I Appreciate Your Drunken Late Night Attempt To Clean, Random Party Guest, But Wooden Cutting Boards Do Not Go In The Dishwasher
Data1001 : I never liked cutting boards made from multiple sections of wood for that very reason. Often they look nice because the pieces are stained in alternating light and dark colors, but they’re only held together with wood glue. Give me a solid piece of wood any day.
#39 Vacuumed Disposable Cutlery Under My Kid’s Bed
Sleestak : That’s suction!
#40 Put My Remotes On My Heater While Cleaning And Forgot. Then Got Chilly
Miss Tinker : Looks like licorice.
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
