What household chore have you got completely wrong?

At the age of 16 My daughter didn’t put any water in the egg poacher pan and wondered why it caught fire . We had gone on holiday to Cyprus and left her in charge of the house. We still remind her at the age of 45.

Four years ago, after DH died, I had to get ready for winter. I thought I'd turned the cock for the outside tap to OFF. But I hadn't, I'd turned it ON And also, I hadn't understood that the tap itself had to be ON to let out remaining water. So of course the pipe burst when it froze, then there was a flood, then a bill from a plumber.
I hope I've done it right now.

MrsQuigley spring forward, fall back I have never heard this rhyme, so handy, even if you made a mistake.

I decided to light the fire for my grandparents and put newspaper in front of the grate (as we did in those times) to roar the fire up and set the chimney on fire. They lived in a 3 story house! They were not impressed the fire brigade were not either!

Just after we got married DH spilt curry on a new Aran sweater. I put it in the bath to soak.

When I was grooming the dog I put silicone detangling spray on her and everywhere she lay down was like an ice rink. I’ve been skidding around the house for months and it doesn’t seem to wipe off.

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Cooked oats o simple in the microwave didn't put milk into managed to set microwave on fire when I was 9

My daughter did exactly this but with Readybrek. She was around 9-10, microwave didn’t catch fire but smelt a bit burnt inside for weeks!

Stood on a stool to open a tap at our butcher's sink at about age 5, only to have the stool move away leaving me stranded, feet dangling, and shouting for mum

The most recent mistake was putting the house clocks forward on Saturday night. Even with the ‘spring forward, fall back’ rhyme going round in my head. Bit confusing in the morning, had to go round re-adjusting them all.

Washing my daughter's white shirt loaned from a department store where she was doing work experience, with a traditional yellow duster. It took several washes with stain remover and finally some bleach, and most of the night, to return it to (almost) white.

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Ordered a bean bag on line years ago and went for the cheaper option of putting the THOUSANDS of tiny polystyrene balls into the fabric myself from a huge plastic bag of them. Crikey. They whooshed out of that bag they were so slippery! I kept finding them in the room for days afterwards.

How I enjoyed your post. It brought back such memories.
When I was about 10, my Granny had made some new pillows from cotton ticking and she wanted me to help her fill them with feathers. Similar result to your polystyrene balls.

...using fly spray

Was pleased with how well furniture had polished up using a new spray polish. Then realised I'd been usung6fly spray.

Ordered a bean bag on line years ago and went for the cheaper option of putting the THOUSANDS of tiny polystyrene balls into the fabric myself from a huge plastic bag of them. Crikey. They whooshed out of that bag they were so slippery! I kept finding them in the room for days afterwards.

Years ago making soup in the pressure cooker, I was too impatient and took the weights off the top before it was ready. The soup shot out like a volcano.

Putting a lovely mohair cardigan in the washing machine. DD had paid a lot of money for it from a craft shop when she was on holiday. It came out in a tight tangled ball.

Washing my daughter’s white lab coat with a pair of green joggers. Well she was the only one in the class with a green lab coat !

When we moved to our Victorian terraced house I used the hoover to suck up lots of soot disturbed when the workmen blocked off a real fireplace in one of the unfinished bedrooms. I promptly took the hoover downstairs to the finished part of the house with pristine light coloured carpets and got a black bin bag to empty the hoover in, of course I should have done it in the kitchen, and of course I should have asked someone to hold the bin bag, but you know what is coming next, I emptied the hoover contents which missed the bag and landed on the beautiful carpet. We managed to clean it up by hoovering all over again, several times, but was quite shocking.

Leaving all my clean white blouses in the machine until I had my lunch, instead of hanging them straight out.
My sister came along & threw in her dark jeans & set the washer off. We fell out big time🤦‍♀️
Oh how I wish she was still here so we could make the same mistake, I wouldn’t give a flip 😞

I didn't notice a red sock in my son's football team's kit that I offered to wash for them.
They had to play in pink shirts for the rest of the season. The boys were not impressed.

I washed the lettuce with soap flakes aged about five.

Giving my DH's favourite handmade alpaca Fair Isle pullover a "good hot wash" in the machine to spruce it up a bit. It dried into a hard effigy of half a man, about 5 sizes smaller than it went in.
Better than my Gran, though, who boiled Grandpa's woollen long johns on top of the stove. They turned to jelly.

Probably most things over the years 🤣😂🤣😂

Washing and dryer messes probably the worst!