Worst stains ever…a roommate who grabbed my work pants to “help me out” and washed and dried them with a deep pink chapstick in the pocket.

Eating and cooking. Let’s just say I’ve got a lot up top, so when food falls off the fork or spoon, it goes right on to my top. I cannot tell you how many shirts I’ve ruined because something was oil based and even those show up on black shirts. I hate it. And while I do keep a Tide pen in my purse, it doesn’t always work.

My daughter is a little makeup-loving diva. And her aunt works for a cosmetic company. Thus the forgotten red lipstick in her pants pocket that went through the washer and dryer. Worst stain ever, and it ended up on everything.

My son likes to use his shirt collar as a napkin. So I am constantly treating stains on his school shirts.

i am also guilty of spilling everything within a 10 foot radius of me. some of my best stains include:
-chapstick left in pockets of some favorite hoodies during their turn in the dryer.
– yellow-y, or dark (dont ask me how) deodorant/sweat stains on the underarms of my white shirts: that stuff NEVER comes out; therefore i am dedicated to only wearing dark colored tops
-cat pee on my bed spread. NOTHING will get rid of that satanic smell.
– residue/oil from my night cream that gets on my pillow case. the smell is washed away with no problem, but the shape of half my face remains on the case…wtf?

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Now does this work on dark clothing?
I love arm & hammer already I think its amazing! However since I work in a kitchen, grease and other misc food stains are rather abundant and no matter what I do, I can not get what appears to be a huge oil slick out of my grossly over priced (Which I didn’t pay for but still) custom made chef jacket. Hmmm, will have to give this a whirl.

adam is my own personal pigpen from charlie brown. he could be eating CRACKERS and still get stains all over everything.

Baseball pants are my biggest stain issue, too. 10 months a year of baseball is Southwest Florida is hard on those things!

Does simply existing count as an outdoor activity? Because I can’t go ANYWHERE without getting something potentially stain-worthy on my clothes. Grass stains are the worst, as is mud (ewh) and huckleberry pie? You might as well just start a good fight if you get any of that on you.

Hm… the thing that generates the worst stains?? I would say children eating. I swear their clothes are never the same after they’ve eaten in them once!!

With two little ones I have had my fair share of explosive breast fed baby poop diapers… nice mustardy orange stains on anything that got close

the grass stains and berry stains from picking/eating raspberries and wiping said hands on clothes. gotta love small children! keeping my fingers crossed to win!!

White carpet. Red lipstick. Four children. No, I DIDN’T fit the carpet, it was here when we moved in!

Sadly (sobbing gently), I can’t use Arm&Hammer Laundry detergent – something in it sets off eczema in three of the six delicate little flowers in this house.

Soaking in Amaze (or Napisan if in the UK) works on pretty much everything. Though not carpet.

Uhm, yeah…I work for Clinique, so I have quite a few make-up stains to conquer, on my WHITE labcoat. Ugh. Forget the 3 children I have!

Once when I was little, I spilled grape juice all over the front of my favorite ruffly polka-dotted shirt. I mourned that shirt for a long time.

Worst stains come from my children eating. Seriously, I can get out the outside stuff most of the time but these girls are the messiest eaters!

I don’t even know what the stain is but I have a washed-in, set stain in a favorite cream colored sweater that was my mothers. I want that stain gone! Hopefully this will work!

The worst stain ever was when my son had a stomach bug= puke and diarrhea all over his pajamas and bedding. I’ll never get over that trauma.

My daughter and markers… she manages to get them everywhere!!!! And my husband comes home from work covered in blood!

not only is my hubby the baby maker he’s the stain maker. i don’t know why he can’t seem to keep a shirt “drip free” while he’s eating. best one was when he was eating from a chocolate fountain and dropped a big glob of dark on his new white sweater!

Blood is always a pain. And chocolate – I know because I eat a lot of it. No, seriously. A lot.

The activity that causes the most stains? Being 8 months pregnant. Between spilling on my HUGE stomach, or my newfound clumsiness in the kitchen, my clothes are now the most stain-treated in the house!

My worst stain (and most embarrassing) was on my favorite pair of khaki cropped pants. During my lunch hour I decided I needed to run to Old Navy, even though it was a monsoon outside that day. When I got to the store I thought I was lucky and pulled into a front row parking space. When stepping out of my car and landing my flip flopped foot into a huge puddle of water, I realized how unlucky I was. After getting what I needed in Old Navy I returned to my car and thought I would outsmart that puddle and crawl through the passenger side of my car. Unfortunately, I forgot about the picture my daughter had colored for me the day before (by picture I mean she covered an entire 8 1/2 x 11 paper in green marker). I plopped down on the picture and being semi-wet the green marker bled from the paper onto my khaki pants. I didn’t realize what happened and returned to work, only to have my co-worker laugh hysterically at me when she saw my green back side. I stayed in my chair the rest of the day!

Alright. This is unpleasant, but true. My son’s skid marks. That’s right. I said it out loud. But he’s little and I forgive him.

Wow! That detergent looks like it did awesome. I’ve done quite the number on several items of mine from painting!

What outdoor (or indoor) activity generates the most amount of stains?

Easy peasy. FOOTBALL. Outdoors. In the mud. The sliding! The rolling! The tackling! The subsequent ripped knees and grass stains!

*sigh*
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Grass stains are the worst to get out. I work in the garden and always end up getting huge grass stains. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.

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baby carrots are the worst!

Black PERMANENT magic marker – oh yes – and a 2-1/2 year old little boy…all over himself, my leather couch, and our walls. I usually end up throwing a lot of shirts away because of non-removable stains.

My very worst stain was when I had my boys dressed up and ready for church and they decided to go pick Blackberries while I got ready. I had suits covered with blackberry stains and the white shirts I ended up tossing in the trash.

I’ve given up on wearing nice clothes except for a few shirts and a handful of jeans (one is actually maternity jeans). I stain nice that I put on my body. It’s a curse. Anywhoo, I’m just glad I don’t do the laundry in my house. My bf does. Hehehehe.

Worst stain? Magic marker on kitchen counters. Worst stain on clothes? I don’t know what it was because my daughter is a hider too. Never came out. Visa gift card = new clothes and a trial of the Arm & Hammer detergent!

I think the worst laundry disaster and stain situation I ever had was when I decided to wash the blankets on our couch and accidentally washed my husbands expensive 30-in-1 remote in all of the blankets (from scooping them up off the couch). I had a pissed husband, stained blankets from some type of electronical-yes that’s a word 😉 mess, and a no- longer-usable expensive remote. We still laugh about it to this day and it was 3 years ago!

Eating definitely causes the most stains in my house. I don’t know what it is about the combination of toddlers and food that creates such a mess, but my daily routine consists of scrubbing food stains off clothes, the kitchen table, chairs and floor.

Makeup, specifically the best eyeliner I ever bought. Stila smudge pot. I love it so much but somehow I manage wave the brush around and get it on stuff.

Anytime I use cooking oil I get a stain.

I love going barefoot in summer, but when it’s not summer I still go around in sock feet. And I don’t hesitate to go outside in my socks. Getting them clean isn’t easy!

Well seeing that I have 2.5 yr old quadruplets…..we have LOTS and LOTS of stains! Tons of laundry and stains make for a tired mommy:)

Jenny B

My laundry stain nightmare is greasy, oily food stains that inevitability ends up on my shirts every time. I haven’t found anything that will remove them.

My worst stains ever are grease stains from food…especially on black shirts. I’ve ruined many a black shirt where the stain comes out, but leaves behind a shiney spot on the shirt.
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The outdoor activity that generates the most amount of stains is when camping getting lamp oil and campfire ash stains in my camp clothes.

Having 3 girls, who love to play in mud and 2/3 of them play soccer has created laundry HAVOC in my house. But the biggest culprit for stains, is MY HUSBAND. He works 2 demanding jobs, he comes home filthy from both. He needs a fresh, crisp uniform each and every day SO my piles of laundry are terrifying! I am still looking for that ONE great product that make my life easier, so I may have to try this soon!

My daughter’s sport socks (after Colorguard workouts) on the school gym floors are a challenge to get clean!

Our messiest outdoor activity is playing in the sprinklers = major grass stains. kiki(at)hantla(dot)come

i need to get the grime out of my child’s knees…it worked for you, so…

Worst Stain ever – it was during a mud vollyball game in college. Need I say more?

Does eating count as an indoor activity? Because I can’t seem to eat a meal without spilling something on my clothes!

My worst laundry challenges are my son’s clothes period- football, grass stains, food stains, marker, grease, paint, etc…. My husband’s work clothes, and on days when my second grader’s create art projects are a close second! – Lisa
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Chalk outside, eating in side. Stains, oh my!
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the worse stain ever? Red Georgia Clay. Of course the boys grind that into their clothes when they go out and play
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I hate dirty stains too, especially grease stains from cooking, I need to wear my apron more!

I live in NYC so I walk a lot to get to and from places. When it’s rainy, the bottom of my pants or jeans get soaked and sometimes very dirty!

Recently my husband cameand wanted me to try and get out an oil stain from a favorite vest of his!I tried every thing I could but,couldn’t get it all out!

my 2 year old is an artistic eater. I bought her the cutest dress 1 time and she managed to get this aweful grass stain. Sadely I never got it out and I was heartbroken over the dress.

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lately easter egg dying was my biggest laundry problem

wine is the worst grown up stain but grass is the worst kids stain

My husband & son both love working on anything with an engine. Automotive stains are almost impossible to get out.

Football uniforms are my biggest laundry challenge.

My biggest laundry woe is during the summertime baseball season! My kids bring home much of the infield dirt (ground-in) and grass stains … UGH! By the way … I love the name of your blog! LOL

worst outdoor stains are from yard and garden work, grass and dirt

What doesn’t create a stain when you have a 2 year old? Playing outside, coloring, eating. . .you name it she can make a mess out of it!

I’d say cook out and camping generates the most amount of stains. Kids helped with everything, cook and eat, food stains are everywhere.

cooking and eating seems to generate the most stains at my house, especially when I don’t catch them right away so I can pretreat them

The worse stain is grass. My husband’s knees and the boys football pants and shirts.

We’ve had many, many worst stains. There was the incident with the paint, the bassinet, the baby, and everyone’s clothes. We also suffer through baseball and soccer stains.

My almost 2 year old daughter was constipated (I’m a first time mom) and I heard giving her prune juice would help. My friend gave me the idea to cut it with apple juice ti make it taste good. Prune juice, check. Apple juice, check. 2 sippy cups (omg, cant believe i gave her that much) check. Well, I gave her a bath and after I couldn’t find her lotion. I went to find it and realized too late that I had left her without a diaper. :/ Yep. Spray poop on the floor and the couch. Oh, it gets better. We found more on the floor and the fireplace…the next day. If anyone asks, it’s chocolate. Lesson learned.

I have two teenage sons who like to work on cars and motorcycles, so we have lots of oil and grease stains.

We like to rough-house with our dog outside. ‘Nuf said?

Lets see, teenagers, husband, five dogs (four are housetraining puppies) snow thawing, mud everywhere – yeah – I’ve got lots of laundry! Always LOVED Army & Hammer Laundry Soap – great product – great value! ?

art supplies from my 8 year old. They’re everywhere on his clothes! amiedanny@msn.com

Both of my kids have this thing with writing on their clothes (and their friend’s clothes), so I can relate to the marker story. But my biggest challenge is mud and grass. There’s a very shallow creek that runs through our neighborhood (when we aren’t experience a drought, which is often) and the neighborhood kids, including mind, love to try to jump over it, often falling in the mud and grass along the way.

The worst stains are always from dinner. I have a very independent daughter who still needs some help eating, but refuses it. So, we end up will a variety of colors and stains on our shirts and pants. And the towel I put down to cover the chair cushion.

My toughest stain – rust. That is the toughest to get out. Next to that would probably be ink or blood . . .

I have 3 boys and a husband…they get into everything! Our favorite outside activity is soccer.

The one and only color red
that somehow sneaks into
an entire load of white
clothing. Husband drew
lots of laughs at the
gym when sporting pink
briefs in a group of
generals and colonels.

My kid’s karate gi looks gray instead of white!

I’m around horses all the time and need all the help I can get.

Worst stains ever…

Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, something something something something
pants on the ground.
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My worst stain? Motor oil. My old car was notorious for leaking oil, so I had to keep a spare quart in my car at all times and fill ‘er up regularly.
I went to grab the dip stick from the reservoir to check it, pulled to hard, and the entire cap came with it… splatting the contents of dirty motor oil all over my hair, my face, my arms… and my suede leather skirt.

Massive fail.

Our worst stains definitely come from eating, now that my dearly beloved spawn insists on doing it all by himself and his new favorite food is strawberries, lord help us!

Worst stain ever for us was beet juice. I fed my kids beets and in a fit of insanity left them in their normal clothes. Totally ruined two shirts.

Our stains don’t come from us or kids, but from our 100+ pound dog beast. Food bits, slobber, outside dirt, and who knows what can be found on all my pants and skirts from the thigh down. Right now, the boyfriend is out of town for work and the other side of the bed is covered in smears of I don’t want to know what, but it looks gross and will need to be washed before anyone thinks about sleeping there. (This is part of the reason the dog beast sleeps on the floor usually and evidence that I am a sucker for the sad face when I am the only one sleeping in the bed.)

My worst stains come from me. I blame pregnancy for all the spilling that I do!

BANANAS! Instead of going into their mouths, it’s squished into their shirts and like a bad house guest, never leaves.

I have a way of forgetting to put on an apron when I’m cooking, which means I’m always splattered with some form of sauce, oil, or whatever. I’m constantly washing things two or three times to get out food stains.
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For me it would be gardening hands down. I always come in with a grass green bum! LOL

It’s always the baby eating. She makes crazy messes and one of my ‘things’ is stains. I can’t stand’em! I’m always treating her clothes because though she may be 20 months old, I loathe the stains!

Grass stains suck! My 5 year old son loves to play soccer and slides all over the grass. Can’t wait to try this new detergent.

It never fails, if there’s chocolate syrup involved it gets all over my kid and her clothes. And? 98% of the time, it happens when she’s wearing white. Which I try not to do. White is just asking for trouble.
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The absolute worst stain ever was an ink explosion in my pocket, but I don’t think that any detergent can really deal with that. 🙂

The worst one is mud from when it rains. It is so hard to wash from pants

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Washing my make-up off! Every wash cloth I own has mascara stains!
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The worst stain ever involved red sauce and a white dress…

My biggest problem right now is my son’s baseball practices. He loves to slide into base, and his uniform gets filthy.

Feeding my infant creates the biggest laundry woes in my home. It’s usually all over him AND all over me by the time he’s done!