That was Odd...

[Gayowulf]

I know a lot of you people here are lazy and probably don't clean your room very often.

When you do clean it, I'm sure you find money, things you though you'd lost, and items of mysterious/uncertain origin.

What is the oddest thing you've found in your history as a messy bastard?


I'm cleaning my room for the first time since January. And let me tell you...

[jmiller]

haha, i do that all the time. it's an absolute fright everytime i decide to clean it up.

I don't really find anything weird aside from old food and coffee mugs.
Though last week I did find a half-empty mickey of Fireball, which I never remember purchasing.

[bozley05]

probably a michael jackson cd... i have no idea how it got there.

[Hobo]

A body

[Gayowulf]

Man. If I'd hired someone to clean my room, they'd probably have taken one look, slit my throat and then left the country.

I'll document it with pictures tomorrow. complete with money found, garbage bagged, and the odd things.

[Decker]

Well 'house - clean - me' sorry can't make sense out of that !!;)

[niv]

If my room were clean I probably wouldn't be suffering from as many allergies...but meh

[tandoc]

Actually. My room is _always_ clean. I'm ocd about organisation. Everything needs to be in the right place. If someone messes up my bed I crack the ----s. My system usually turns to ---- in the middle of the week, with clothes, newspapers and homework all over the floor, but its usually clean by thursday night.

I don't know, I'm a neat freak I guess D:

However, I am lazy. My desk is usually covered in mugs, cups, cans, packs, pens, paper, pencils, coasters, etc.

[Decker]

LOL - so it's not just me everywhere has to be just so - and my space is a disaster area

[bozley05]

Mess is good, until you can no longer live with it. That's about 2 months of accumulation for me.

[jmiller]

Yeah, two months is about it for me too.

However, I have _no_ space left in my room, so it's more rearranging than cleaning.
It's kinda like playing tetris, trying to stack everything properly.

Right now my Sparc is directly in the center of the floor, acting a somewhat of a night stand for books and such. It's like a game to not trip over it whenever I get out of bed.

[Daniel]

My room used to be messy, but then I decided to purchase new furniture and a new bed. Decided it was time to chuck EVERYTHING out. And I did. Now my room is pretty clean. My computer room, however...

[bozley05]

You have seperate rooms, lucky. i have a bed, computer with office desk, tv, ps2, stereo and no closet in a study come bedroom. my floor mainly consists of clothes, remote controls and controllers, headphones, cds and depending on how lazy i am, dvd's/games.

[Decker]

Only one place to keep clean - heaven.

Two bedrom flat and I just came to terms with the bruises through tripping :D

[Robert]

This is pretty sad.. but I don't make my bed. We have a cleaning lady that makes our bed. Well back in 7th/8th grade, the lady went on vacation for a week, so I didn't make my bed. A few days later I realized I lost my wallet. I searched everywhere, up and down, in and out, and finally came to the conclusion that it must have fallen out in school and someone jacked it. I don't lose things (never have). Anyways when Maria came back and when went to make my bed, low and behold, my wallet was there!

[Decker]

LOL - you lazy sod having some 'do for you'

[Gayowulf]

Maria came back and when went to make my bed, low and behold, my wallet was there!


Haha, I can relate to that.

Before I cleaned my room, I could put something down, leave the room and come back 5 minutes later.... and I wouldn't be able to find it.

[Blank Verse]

My cat decided to hide in a mess under my bed for an entire day. I was about to make missing cat posters, until he jumped me as I was about to go to bed.

----ing cat.

[jmiller]

that's nothing.

i found a racoon under my desk last year.
i left the porch door open, and in he/she came in to take a nap.

[TravisL]

I found the body of my neighbor I killed last spring...jk...or Am I? hmmm

lol :D

[aggiedude]

Over each school week my room turns into a disaster so I clean up on Friday night or Saturday only because I can live probably months in a dirty area (except for my desk bc It will get REALLY dirty and become usuless so I pick it up often) but my Mom can not live in a place with one piece of clothing on the floor. So I have to clean often. :(

[LockerGirl]

i found a whole bundle of mice under some clothes in the corner once. when i pulled the top up they scattered everywhere :S

[Dean]

i found a kg of chocolate


(no really..)

[Gayowulf]

I'd say the oddest thing I found in my room while cleaning it the other day was a complete outfit of women's clothing amongst my pile of laundry... jeans, shirt, hoodie, socks and a thong.

It's not mine (all too small) and I've never had a... guest in this place.

I guess I'll donate them to a thrift store.

[tandoc]

you could probably sell it to sick and twisted idividuals for big $$$, ie. me.

[Decker]

How do you know they're too small LOL

[Gayowulf]

How do you know they're too small LOL

they don't fit. ;)

[Decker]

Wayhay! you've tried them LOL

Which ones by the way?

[Gayowulf]

haha, no I didn't try them.

I can tell just by looking at them. The shirt is stretchy enough that I could probably squeeze into it. But if I moved I'd pull a hulk and burst it at the seams.

The hulk part would be pretty cool, but actually putting on the shirt would definately be sending the wrong message.

[Bryson]

Between working a real full time job, and working on my websites, I generally dont have time, motivation, will power, urgency, a care in the world, nor devotion to cleaning the room. There is a difference between messy and dirty though. Dirty- food and old dishes etc. Messy- clothes on the floor, miscellaneaous crap. Right now its a bit of both (pizza box on floor, clothes on floor, cups on the computer desk).

Strangest thing I ever found? Strangest thing I DIDN'T find was the 2 covers for the smoke detectors when we moved out of the old apartment. Strangest thing found was some old poetry I had written in guess in about 1994. Some was okay, but I wouldnt waste money on buying it. I had written it at a time when I got to see Mya Angelou in New Jersey, I was a high school sophomore, Ravi Shankr was doing his free peace concerts, and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin. Try finding that in your room.

[Ben]

My room at my mom's house is perfectly clean. Nothing on the floor, walls with two Pink Floyd posters and a Jimi Hendrix poster, picture of one of my relatives standing next to JFK. Bed is made, dressers are clean on top with clothes folded.

Now my dad's house, which is where I stay at most of the time...it's a ----in pig sty. The rest of the house is clean -- my dad is a neat freak, but when you enter my room the typical "Caution" tape strung across the door gives a fair warning. I never make my bed, there is skateboard parts all over the floor and two cracked decks on the wall, I have a bookcase with software boxes, magazines, a few bottles of water, all thrown into it. My dresser has random ---- thrown on top (from 1/3 of a shoelace that was so destroyed from skating I had to cut it out of my shoe with a pocket knife to my first earring and a couple of rocks) and I just throw my boxers into the drawer without folding them. Same with night-shirts I wear to sleep in (boxers and night-shirts drawers left open for effect). Undershirts thrown onto shelf at top of closet, along with regular changes of athletic shorts for school (closet door left open for effect). Closet is the only organized part of my room. From left to right I have my old shirts I don't wear anymore, jeans I don't like, jeans I like, shirts I still wear. My dad has taken to brushing everything off of my computer desk with his arm onto the floor when he wants to use the computer. There's two nightstands on either side of my bed, one is organized with my lamp and alarm and other stuff. The other one has an old busted boom box that I need to throw away and a coil of orange extension cord on top of it, some random CDs, a couple of magazines, a glass of ginger ale, and a garbage can full of snot rags from when I was sick yesterday.

Weirdest thing I found in my room at my dad's house? Uh.......a skateboard truck that was cracked in half (it was a no-name walmart truck from "back in the day", about 5 years ago, but still, what the hell??), and a bowl of popcorn that I estimated to be around 2 months old at the time along with a half-drunken 2-liter of coke around the same age.

Don't get me wrong though, besides my room at my dad's house looking like a tornado swept through it, it's just messy not dirty. I hate bugs.

Random thought: I remember about two months ago my dad bought two 24-cases of 20oz bottles of water. I made it my mission to drink them as fast as I could and see how long I could leave them in a pyramid under my desk before my dad got pissed and cleaned it up. He just knocked it over on purpose so I would get pissed and clean it up. Nooo....I re-stacked them so you couldn't scoot the chair in without knocking them over. Repeat 2 or 3 times before he cleaned them up.