Gravity is a cruel mistress.
10Sep2008 Filed under: Bitchy Author: LaLaLauraThis is what a $12 bottle of laundry detergent looks like:
This is what 110 loads of laundry detergent looks like after it runs all over your laundry room floor:
It may not seem like a lot in the pictures, but keep in mind that the floor UNDER my two washers and dryers is completely soaked in green goo, and in the furthest corner from where I can reach, it’s about half an inch deep.
Now. Will somebody remind me that shit tends to fall off the top of the washer during the spin cycle before I decide to set the laundry soap up there again?
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married to an enginerd named Paul, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism. In addition to playing Barbies and pretending to eat plastic food all day, Laura spends most of her time folding clean laundry, obsessing about the amount of sugar her kids eat, and vacuuming up Polly Pocket accessories. She's obsessed with Yo Gabba Gabba, red wine, and Family Guy. She also regularly contributes to How Do You Do It? and authors the following blogs:
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Kim @ What's That Smell?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Oh man, I cringed when I saw that. How long did it take to clean up?
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Jenny from Mommin' It Up!
September 10th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Oh man that SUCKS! you totally crack me up though, girl. LOVE the title of this post.
When I was 8.5 months pregnant and nesting, I dropped a brand new bottle of fabric softener on the floor, and it just exploded. I was about to throw in a load of towels, so i mopped it up with the towels. Those were the softest towels EVER when they came out of the dryer! (not very absorbent though. heh.)
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Suzanne B (Crunchy Green Mom)
September 10th, 2008 at 8:57 am
gasp Oh… My… gosh…
understanding mom hug {hug}
Umm… silver lining in the cloud….. at least your floor is clean and smells fab!
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Jen
September 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Oh. My. God. I would be SO pissed. Ugh.
I NEVER set anything on my washer!! LOL
Our laundry room floor is jacked and we have never been able to get the washer as level as it needs to be. So it does a jig with each wash.
The same thing happened to me, only it was with powder and I could just vacuum it up.
How in the hell do you clean up THAT much liquid soap??
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Kim in SLC
September 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Dude, way to overclean your floor!
Cheryl
September 10th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Ugh. Just ugh.
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Lucrecia
September 10th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I think I would sit right down in that mess and cry! My son once spilled 1/4 that on the kitchen floor. He was thankfully old enough to clean it up himself but it took a good hour!
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Amy Lynn
September 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Ooooh. That is something that would totally happen to me. In fact, though it hasn’t yet, I am pretty sure it will at some point. I just have that kind of luck!
Sorry love! That just plain sucks.
Rebecca
September 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Ouch.
At least your laundry room will smell good.
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Tamara
September 10th, 2008 at 11:27 am
OMG, we buy that same bottle from Sam’s and I think I would shit if that went all over the floor because I KNOW just how big that bottle is! Makes me sick to add up how many of those bottles I have actually gone through too! Hate laundry. Anywho I guess your floor is probably really really clean and Gain fresh….. right?
Sorry I haven’t called you, this is the first time I have had any time to get online and have yet another out of towner coming to our house tomorrow……
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Chellekay
September 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
oh no! That has happened to me before luckly it was a smaller bottle. Its a big pain to clean
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Laura-Junkfoodaholic
September 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
UGGGH! I feel for you. That really sucks.
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Jenni
September 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Craaaaaaap. And detergent is so thick and sticky it takes forever to get it all up. Bahhhhhh!
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Posh Totty
September 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Oh no thats happened to me before too, but at least the place smells nice afterwards ;o) hehe!!
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Denise
September 10th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I so feel your pain. I’ve done that once or twice. I don’t even dare look behind our washing machine cuz I am sure there are a hundreds of things just piling up from their little spin cycle misshap.
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Katie
September 10th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
OMG
I would have freaked the heck out!!! I do the same though and tend to put the damn detergent on top of the washer. It’s fell behind and I’ve had to make hubby get it but luckily it’s never spilled like that. holy effin soap, I can’t imagine how much it sucked to clean that crap up.
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Lisa
September 11th, 2008 at 7:17 am
OMG! That so sucks. At least yours spilled on a tile floor though. When my son was two, he thought he’d help mommy by carrying a brand new jug of ERA to the laundry room after we got groceries one day. Only problem, he didn’t make it and ended up dropping the LIQUID soap all over the hallway CARPET. Talk about a pain to clean up.
LaDonna
September 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Dude, that so sucks.
Did you get it up before it soaked into the baseboards?
Daycare Equipment
September 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Yeah that is uber crappy! Yikes! I’m sure that took like a hour to clean up. Laundry detergent stick and leaves a crazy residue. You poor thing!
Jody
November 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
That just happen to me, I looked up a way to clean it up, because I have tile floors and I am afarid that my husband is going to bust his @**, because it’s so slippery… I googled and along came you.. LOVE the site..