Have you ever felt like your attempt at cleaning created even more of a mess than it was before? Breaking a glass while drying it, spilling detergent all over the floor when doing a load of laundry, or bleaching your clothes while trying to get that stubborn stain from your shower. 

If you’ve experienced this pain before, we are glad to report that you’re not alone. Just take a look at these people in the list below whose urge to clean ended up in far worse scenarios than those mentioned above. From breaking through ceilings to smashing shower doors, scroll down to wince and chuckle at some of the most unfortunate cleaning failures we at Bored Panda could gather from peeps online.

#1 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

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#2 Home Alone Cleaning The Roof And Gutters When I Heard A Loud Bang

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#3 My Mom Erased Part Of The World While Cleaning My Globe

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#4 I Just Wanted To Clean The Window

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#5 My Wife Wonders Why The Vacuum Hasn’t Been Working

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#6 Washed My Measuring Cup And All The Lines And Numbers Came Off

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#7 My Mother Was Cleaning The Attic

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#8 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

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#9 Let’s Just Say That We Ended Up With Very Clean Laundry Room Floor… And Yes I’m An Idiot

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#10 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

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#11 I Tried Cleaning The Stain Off This Mug Until I Realized It’s Part Of The Design

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#12 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.

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#13 Got New Cargo Shorts And Accidentally Sat On A Stool That My Sister Was Cleaning With Clorox

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#14 I’m Doing Renovations And My Roomba Found A Tiny Piece Of Sheetrock

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#15 When Your Flatmate Likes To Eat Seeds And Cleans The Floor Without Vacuuming First

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#16 My Mom Was Just Finishing Cleaning The Kitchen And Then Spilled A Bag Of Chia Seeds On The Ground

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#17 Wife Tried To Clean My Cast Iron. How Much Alimony Should I Get?

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#18 I Was Cleaning The BBQ… And Turned Around For 30 Seconds

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#19 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

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#20 I Cleaned My Glasses But Apparently There Was A Small Stone On The Cloth

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#21 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

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#22 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

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#23 I Tried Cleaning My Oven Today

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#24 My 3-Year-Old Thought It Would Be A Good Idea To Spray The TV With Water To “Clean” It

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#25 Shower Door Didn’t Like Being Cleaned

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#26 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.

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#27 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

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#28 I Clean Pools And Today I Knocked A Huge Potted Plant Into The Water

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#29 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

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#30 Got Reminded By Myself That Ceramic And Glass Aren’t A Great Idea To Put Together. Tried To Clean My Pepper Grinder And It Fell Down Directly Into My Washing Machine Door

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#31 I Appreciate Your Drunken Late Night Attempt To Clean, Random Party Guest, But Wooden Cutting Boards Do Not Go In The Dishwasher

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#32 I Spent An Hour And A Half Cleaning The Kitchen. When I Finished I Thought I’d Make Coffee

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#33 I Washed My Lenses. Didn’t Realize My Lens Bag Fell Into My Laundry Before Dumping Everything In. They Got Submerged In Soapy Water For At Least 5–10 Minutes Before I Realized

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#34 Failed Attempt To Clean The Bathroom For Hubby

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#35 I Was Emptying The Dishwasher And Found This “Clean” Glass Break

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#36 Trying To Clean Your Oven

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#37 Vacuumed Disposable Cutlery Under My Kid’s Bed

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#38 I Forgot To Remove The Silicone Protectors Before I Set The Oven To Self-Clean. Thought I’d Get My Clean Pans Looking Like New

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#39 My Handheld Vacuum Opened In The Middle Of Cleaning

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#40 Mom Sprayed Cleaner On The Light Switch And Now I Have No Electricity. Moving Out Inspection Is Tomorrow

Did some deep cleaning yesterday since inspection is on Monday. I was writing down a list of things we need for today and I watched as my mom sprayed cleaner on the switch. Not even five minutes later we hear a pop and all of the lights go out. We hoped it would be okay today, but when I flipped the breaker there was a flash pop and lights out again. I’ve resigned myself to losing a third of my deposit to this.

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#41 What Could Go Wrong When Neighbor Cleans Fireplace Into Recycle Bin

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#42 How My Knife Broke Through The Glass While I Was Washing It

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#43 It’s A Good Thing The Mrs Hinch Home Duster Is Pretty To Look At, It’s A Bit Stuck

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#44 I Was Going To Mop The Bathroom When The Stick Broke Due To Rust. Had To Clean The Floor Like The Good Old Days

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#45 So That’s How You Empty The Dust Container In A Vacuum

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#46 Was Trying To Take Out The Shower Door To Clean It When It Just Shattered Out Of Nowhere. Guess I Gotta Buy A New One

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#47 Woke Up This Morning To My Plant Falling Off My Shelf Onto My Head… And While Cleaning It Fell From The Same Place Again

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#48 Soaked My Blinds, In The Tub, To Wash Them. Hung Them Up To Dry Last Night. Come Downstairs This Morning, And They Are Like Tubes

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#49 My Robot Vacuum Curled Up And Is Sleeping When It Should Be Working

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#50 Vacuumed Up My Underwear

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#51 It Turns Out My New Roomba Is Perfectly Tall Enough To Absolutely Obliterate Itself On The Bottom Of My Swivel Chair

I know the damage is basically just cosmetic, but I would like my expensive shiny things to stay shiny (for as long as possible) especially if they’re expensive.

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#52 I Broke My Boyfriend’s Tempered Glass While Cleaning Up His PC, Time To Pack My Bags Because I’m Gonna Be Single When He Gets Back Home

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#53 I Asked My 10-Year-Old To Clean The Baking Tray

She successfully cleaned the tray off the tray, A+ for effort… B- for results.

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#54 My Girlfriend Was Busy, So I Thought I’d Have A Go. Apparently, The Washing Machine Tab Things And Fairy Aren’t Interchangeable Products

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#55 Cleaning Your Toilet With Dishwasher Detergent

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#56 Put My Remotes On My Heater While Cleaning And Forgot. Then Got Chilly

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#57 A Pot Lid Shattered. Cleaned It And Got Stabbed. Let’s Hope The Dishwasher Is Okay

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#58 It Turns Out The Awesome Chainmail Sponge I Love Will Destroy A Garbage Disposal And Itself

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#59 I Was Cleaning My Glasses And Then This Happened

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#60 Why Did Cleaning My Bathroom Remove All The Finish From My Door?

I cleaned all my bathroom surfaces with just Lysol disinfectant, and put toilet bowl cleaner in the toilet. It was really strong so I ended up turning on the fan and closing the door (to keep the cats out) and left it for a few hours. I did not put anything on the door but when I came back in it looked like this.

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#61 Mother Accidentally Left A Mop With Cleaning Detergent On It For 5 Days

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#62 My Robot Vacuum Just Sucked Up Half A Roll Of Toilet Paper

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#63 A Friend Decided To Clean This With Alcohol In The House He Just Moved In. Is There Anything He Can Do (Apart From Fleeing The Country)?

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#64 Half Of These Pants Shrunk In The Wash

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#65 The Plant Got Caught In The Wheel Of The Vacuum After I Finished Vacuuming

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#66 Handwashing Dishes Because Dishwasher Is Broken. This Happened Just As I Finished

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#67 I Guess I Don’t Have To Mop The Floor Anymore

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#68 I Tried To Clean My PC

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#69 Dad Dropped A Heavy Decoration While Cleaning The Glass Table. We Bought It 3 Days Ago

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#70 My Cousin Spilled Detergent In The Bathroom

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#71 I Scrubbed This Forever Before Realizing This Is How The Cup Was Designed

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#72 For The Second Night In A Row My Hallway Doorstop Has Switched My Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Off

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#73 Finally Got Around To A Much Needed Deep Clean Of The Garage Fridge. The Large Glass Bottom Piece Exploded All Over The Place While I Was Cleaning It

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#74 One Of My Parents Decided To Wash My Le Creuset And Place It Like This To Dry. I’m Literally Crying. I Said A Thousand Times For Them Not To Touch It

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#75 So My Glass Broke In Half While Cleaning It

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#76 I Was Pretty Tired While Cleaning My Keyboard And Now I Have Two “W” And Upside Down “K”

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#77 Well, It Is Not A Good Idea To Clean The Screen Of The MacBook With A Glass Cleaner

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#78 I Just Wanted To Clean My Pitcher

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#79 When The Last Thing You Have To Do Is Vacuum The Floor In The Guest/Craft Room Before Your Parents Walk And This Happens

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#80 Forgot To Put A New Trash Bag In My Automatic Litter Box When I Cleaned It Last Week. The Trash Bag Is There To Catch The Clumps

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#81 I Broke My Cutting Board In A Bizarre Way While Cleaning It

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#82 If You Try To Clean Up Super Glue With Soap, This Will Forever Be On Your Floor

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#83 Dishwasher Said Done And Clean… Not Sure How This Happened And Who Did It

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#84 Roomba And Ladder Shelf Don’t Get Along

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#85 Did The Dishes Before Leaving The House. Didn’t Listen To My Mom When She Said “Just Buy More Dishwasher Pods And Don’t Use Dish Soap In A Pinch”

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#86 I Was Cleaning The Glass Tray From My Fridge And It Shattered In My Hands. Some Of The Pieces Made It All The Way To The Living Room

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#87 When You Put A Load Of Laundry In The Wash But Forget One Sock

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#88 Set My Oven To Self-Clean, Heard A Huge Bang And Returned To Find The Inner Glass Panel Had Exploded

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#89 I Was Trying To Clean Up My Old NES And I Used Some Rubbing Alcohol

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#90 Cleaned The Fireplace And Accidentally Joined The Dark Brotherhood

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#91 Asked My Daughter To Take Out The Clean Dishes From The Dishwasher

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#92 A 3 AM Room Tidy Up Led To Me Stupidly Putting My Mirror On My Windowsill, Came Home To This

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#93 Scrubbing The Bathroom With Bleach Didn’t Go Well

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#94 Cleaning Robot First Fail

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#95 Appreciation Post To My Favorite Decanter, That I Broke While Cleaning Last Night. 7 Years, 3 Houses, Countless Bottles And So Many Great Memories. Thank You

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#96 Roomba Was Going For A While Got Up And Saw This

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#97 Tried To Clean My Windows But The Trigger Had Other Plans

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