Tell Me About Your Worst Domestic Disaster for a Chance to Win a $100 VISA Gift Card and a Baby Cakes Cake Pop Maker!

I'm going to make this short and to the point. 

Remember me telling you about my cake-pop debacle last night?   Or perhaps you're more familiar with one of my other many domestic disasters?   Yes, yes, I am the one who got her hair caught in her vacuum cleaner, super-glued her fingers to her steering wheel, accidentally shaved off my eyebrows and the eyelashes on one eye,  and has had all sorts of manner of animal come into my home, or actually come into my home and then die...in my toilet.   So are you surprised that I'm hosting a giveaway where I'm asking someone else to share an cherished  embarrassing  horrifying amusing domestic disaster with the rest of the world me?

All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, telling me about what happened, or you can write your own blog post and link to it in the comments of this post, it doesn't matter, whatever works best for you.  That will get you one entry.   Tweet the URL of this post and then cc @Barking_Mad, and that will get you another entry, then come back to this post and copy the URL of that tweet into another comment.    Two entries possible.   

I'll draw a winner on Friday the 13th.    The winner will receive a $100 VISA gift card and a Baby Cakes cake pop maker. 

Now for the fine print:

Void where prohibited...which really is just my fancy way of saying that if I've had sex with you,  you gave birth to me, if I gave birth to you,  if you are a sibling (rivalrous or not), or in any, way, shape, or form related to me,  you can't enter the contest.   I have not been given the VISA gift card, nor was I given the Baby Cakes cake pop maker in exchange for writing about either item.  I haven't been reimbursed by VISA or Baby Cakes. 

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I hate to post and run but I have a fascinating game of "Draw Something" awaiting me.  I have gotten completely sucked into that silly game.  What's even better?  I can't even draw so much as a stick person with my own two hands,  but I can rock a tee pee or can of soup using my thumbs and an iPod!

P.S. My husband just told me that I drew him the most craptastic bow ever...he went on to boost my confidence by telling me that it looked like a hot pink polka dot bra.    Obviously he's not very familiar with fine art!

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[Laural Out Loud]

My first Thanksgiving post-college I killed the fridge when I tried to chisel the ice from the top and hit a freon pipe, tried to cook the turkey in the oven, only to discover that it was broken, and when I tried to cook it on the stove instead, caught it on fire. I have hazy memories about a broken window, hard rock rolls and a vacuum cleaner that blew up and spewed dust all over the house just minutes before my first guest was supposed to arrive. My mom was there to witness it all, lol. But the best part is that when people came over the table was set and the food that was served was delicious, and the only mishap that people remember is when my chef friend forgot to put sugar in his pumpkin pie.

[Jessica]

It started running long, so I just got off my butt and blogged about it. :D

http://originalnerdprincess.blogspot.com/2012/04/domestic-disaster-time.html

[Cocobean]

I was painting before we moved into a house - the hubby had taken 18mo dd to keep her out of the paint. I was changing roller pads on the paint roller and was having some trouble. I adjusted things to get more leverage sliding the new cover on the roller and caught my nipple between the cover and the roller... OMG - such pain... NEVER use your body for leverage getting a roller cover on the paint roller...

[kori]

I once got a crazy hair up my butt and decided I could save quite a bit of money if i would just wax my own eyebrows. So I bought a wax kit with the warmer, wax, strips etc. I came home did my eyebrows no problem. Then I decided to wax my own nether regions. So i proceed to spread on a nice thin layer of wax place the strip of cloth on top and rub hard. I pull taut and pull... Holy Shot it hurts so dreaming bad! I stop pulling. I decided that i am not gonna be able to do this. So... I manage to very easily get the cloth strip cloth. And i use the wax remover that came with the kit. It's not removing the wax! Oh my gosh! I start to panic. And decided to get in the tub to soak it off. Cause I'm certain this will work. It doesn't. I try to scrub still not working. So I get out of the tub, put on a robe annd wait for my husband to get home. I show him what I have done to myself. He laughs hysterically. Then he goes outside to the shed. He returns with some paint thinner. Yeah you guessed it. He soaked a rag in paint thinner and placed on my bikini area and VOILA the wax wiped right off. So note to anyone thats thinking of waxing their own bikini area just go to the salon.

[Kristin]

We have a lemon tree that produces amazing lemons in the hundreds (we counted a couple years ago and it was over 800). I was up visiting my mother in law a few years ago and brought some lemons to share and bake with. What else to bake with so many lemons but a lemon meringue pie? I made the crust, separated the eggs, juiced the lemons and started puttin it together. I couldn't figure out why the curd was smelling so eggy and the color wasn't right until I realized I had put the wrong part of the eggs in each part (put the yolks in the meringue and whites in the lemon curd). I was so annoyed and already had a crust made so I dumped the lemon/eggs parts and started over. Second round was much better, but my mother-in-law will never let me live that one down, especially each winter when a new batch of lemons ripens.

PS Love Draw Something!

[andrea boujoukos]

When I first got married, many moons ago (and now I am divorced!), it was Easter time and my husband and I were getting ready to go to my aunt's house for Easter dinner and to spend the day. I had cooked a whole bunch of things to bring to their house, but the biggest deal was a huge pan of baklava. It was GORGEOUS, came out perfect, I was so proud. Well, we put the pan in the car on the back seat and had left the windows partially open and went back to the house to lock up. We locked the house and proceeded to go to the car to leave. I saw bits and pieces of what looked like flakes all around the outside of the car. The inside of the car though was a disaster. Two huge squirrels had gotten in the car and ate a huge whole in the middle of my beautiful baklava!!! They scurried back out of the car through the windows and jumped up to a tree limb and their little faces were covered with fillo dough and syrup. They were happy, I was not!! lol

[Bonnie]

Last spring I took the storm windows out to store them. I cracked the window that night to let the cool, fresh spring air in. Unfortunately I didn't notice that I had forgot to put the screen in. We spent 4 hours that night tryig to get a bat out of our house!

[Bonnie]

**audrey - I can't figure out how to go back and correct my comment above. As I hit "post" I noticed an error in my email so I am commenting again just to correct my email. sorry.

[Em]

As I was preparing for my wedding I made lovely lemon marshmallows and the cutest sugar cookies on sticks plus adorable mint meringue kisses. Then I stacked them all in a tupperware and went out for a few hours. When I returned home to put them on the sticks, my meringues had melted and all of it was stuck together. 6 hours of work down the drain :(

[Amanda]

My husband bought me a bread machine for our first "married" Christmas together. Lets just say that if my first loaf of bread was made of gold, we woulda been RICH!! No idea what I did or did not do - but that was the heaviest loaf of bread I've ever seen or touched!! We laughed ourselves silly & it almost became a weapon before I threw it out:)

[esther m.]

i was still a kid, i think, when i decided to be creative in my baking. i added food coloring to my chocolate chip bars. the 'creative' error? using GREEN food coloring. yeah, that didn't go over so well - i think there were lots of leftovers.

i love how the cake pop websites make it look so easy, but from what you say, it doesn't sound so easy!

[Txtingmrdarcy]

The most "Anti-Martha" moment I've ever had was in high school when my best friend and I attempted to make Blue Box macaroni and cheese without milk. Just... more water? and More cheese?

You can only imagine the cement-like creation we ended up with. We both got married last year and BOTH mentioned the infamous mac and cheese in our shower cards to each other.

[monstergirlee]

The worst domestic distaster would be many years ago at Thanksgiving. Hubs and I were newly married, but most of our friends were still single, and no one had kids so we decided to host Thanksgiving for our renegade friends. I bought a very expensive leg of lamb to fix. It turned out to be a small group of very close friends, and when I brought out that lamb leg I was proud as can be, there were mashed potatoes and oven roasted carrots and other stuff.
As my husband went to carve and serve it, our closest friend turned it down saying He didn't eat lamb, and he wouldn't eat anything else because it'd all been cooked together. He ate nothing except bread products at Thanksgiving dinner. He knew - I know I told him - that we were serving lamb, and instead of letting us know that he deosn't eat lamb, he said nothing and made us feel like jerks for serving food he couldn't eat. My husband still talks about that 15 years later.
The lamb wasn't very good actually - kind of dry but still. That was a pretty bad moment.

Thanks for a chance to win!

[monstergirlee]

I misspoke, not "couldn't eat", should say wouldn't eat. Sorry.

[Britta]

I always keep shampoo and conditioner on hand since i get them pretty cheap with my coupons, one day we were out of shampoo and i grabbed another bottle out of the cabinet. Unfortunately it was a bottle of lotion, not shampoo lol

[trailrider731@gmail.com]

Hay Hay Hay and may the Blessings continue to roll your way forever your way.
OH the memories, ha, I too thought i had avoided disaster on a In law getogether many many moons ago, Promises Promises from the mister, he wouldn't tell! But he did. I made a scrumtious desert, which I a favorite Kitty stepped on before loading it up to travel to the oh so proper inlaws, well at least the MIL. It was his idea, just smooth out the topping in the damaged area, wrap it up. OH, i so wanted to just wave a magic wand and dissappear when HE told it all.

seeya,
THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
LM

[Angel Jacklyn]

I did this just the other day. I thought I'd be helpful around the house & had bought some carpet cleaning powder. So after I cleaned up the dog doodoo in the yard, I walked in the back door & grabbed the carpet powder. I started walking around the house, sprinkling it everywhere. When I reached where I'd started, I realized I had tracked in dog doodoo amongst the carpet & carpet cleaning powder. It was a real nice mess to clean up, but at least it smelled decent lol

[Angel Jacklyn]

2nd entry tweet! https://twitter.com/#!/kytah00/status/189139150983806976

[SarahB]

One afternoon I decided to make macaroni and cheese. First things first, I needed to boil water to cook the noodles. I put the pot on the burner, got distracted by phone ringing and never put water in the pot. Ooops.

[ellen]

My worst... I would have to say it would have to be when I was growing my hair out and was really tired of it and decided to get a spiral type perm. I was newly married, and after I got the perm my husband drove by me.. dont know if it was because I looked like a POODLE or he didnt recognize me. Antway we had to drive home from Iowa to at the time MN and the perm was driving me bananas. Hubby said that Vaseline SHOULD help so we stopped and got some and I proceeded to slather it into my hair- I made mohawk shapes and had tons of fun,, until I tried to shampoo it out. I ended up dousing my hair with gasoline to get the vaseline out. Amazing the perm stayed in and my hair was extremely shiny- on the flip side my entire scalp was burned, got gas in my eyes and I havent listened to my husband in 30 years concerning hair!

[Brandy]

This happen about a year ago. Let me tell you I am the worst person when it comes to fixing something or crafts. My son asked to super glue a head back on a action figure. I told him no, I would do it. You on't want to get super glue on your fingers. So long story short, I ended up super gluing 3 of my fingers together and part of my shirt to my stomach. I get easily destracted with everything and just wasn't paying attention. It took a couple hours to get my shirt to finally loosen up to get it off. 4 days for my fingers to come unstuck.

[Sky]

Well, this one was a long time ago but I ran out of dishwasher soap and thought dishwashing liquid was pretty much the same thing. It's pretty much not. My dishwasher was throwing up bubbles for hours. OMG, it was such a mess!

[Tracey]

My worst disaster was "orange chicken" I tried roasting a chicken and used orange juice and honey - I don't know what I was thinking - but it was gross!!! We ordered a pizza that night!

[Deb Young]

Baking a chicken that was not completely defrosted. Beautiful on the outside...........

[ellen]

https://twitter.com/#!/tannawings/statuses/190326014612738049

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[Shilo Beedy]

One of my worst domestic disasters was when I cooked ramen noodle soup in the microwave. I put the Styrofoam cup in the microwave and went in another room for a bit. I started noticing a burning scent and ran to the microwave opened up the door and it was a burnt mess. The cup melted down over half the way and was stuck to the glass plate. I couldn't figure out what I did wrong and after a bit I'm like crap I never put water in it. The apartment smelled so awful and felt so stupid for making such a simple mistake.

[Lisa @ Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy]

Probably not my worst but my most recent was an attempt to make cute deviled eggs (supposed to look like hatching chicks) but instead I exploded the yolks all over my eggs, counter, wall and stove top!