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The Little Lilypad is a lifestyle blog mostly written by a mum to two beautiful, cheeky and entertaining daughters. It is sometimes written by the Man on the Pad or by one of our baby bloggers. Occasionally we accept guest posts too. There is frequently talk of sustainable living, saving money, lifestyle and travel. It is hopefully helpful, sometimes funny and always honest.
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The nightmare before Christmas #Carpetstain

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Christmas has to be perfect doesn't it?
 
Everything has to be cleaned to within an inch of it's life, only to be covered in wrapping paper and those little bits of plastic that companies insist on wrapping around the legs of toys just a few hours later. (My vacuum particularly likes those little plastic things).
 
But the cleaning seems to happen on a daily basis in our house due to the toddlers creations (otherwise known as exuding glitter wherever she goes) and the tweens ability to drop crumbs everywhere, not to mention the cat and her muddy little paws, it is a good job we have a decent vacuum cleaner. No matter what happens the floor is always where the nightmares happen!
 
I am not supposed to remind my husband of the time he was rushing to iron something and decided to do it 
 
on the floor,
on a towel,
on the landing (I am deadly serious)
and he set the iron down.
 
We were left with a very hard, iron shaped, piece of carpet as a result. Well the result for me was a new carpet but I am sure it still gives him nightmares.
 
Or my Dad, strolling onto the new carpet in his freshly polished black shoes ........ I don't need to say anymore do I?
 
Or the girls kicking over a glass of wine in the evening. The loss of my evening tipple, coupled by the stain on the carpet could have been a complete nightmare but I am thankful for stain removers!
 
Wine spill
 
Carpet nightmares are certainly not a thing of the (Christmas) past for us but what about you? Do you have a story to tell?
 
Carpetright are currently running a #CarpetStain campaign because at this time of year, when the festivities are in full swing, it’s almost guaranteed there will be small accidents here and there. One of the main ones being #CarpetStains.
 
Carpetright are running a competition for people to be given the chance to win a prize of having a large room within their house re-carpeted for the new year. They can enter by submitting a #CarpetStain nightmare story, telling Carpetright all about a time when a spillage has occurred, the more dramatic, the better!
 
The campaign is in collaboration with Dr. Beckmann and one lucky runner up will win a year’s supply of carpet stain remover product. As well as any person submitting a story getting 20% off Dr. Beckmann products online.
 
So what are you waiting for? Your#carpetstain nightmare may just turn out to be a dream winning story! 
 
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE YOUR STORIES HERE BUT THE ENTRY WILL NOT BE COUNTED UNLESS YOU SUBMIT DIRECT TO CARPETRIGHT.
 
CLOSING DATE for entries is 05/01/2015 at 11:59am
 

 
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  1. Leanne Perrett

    great prize good luck all who enter

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  2. Lesley Bambridge

    Apart from years of having to clean up baby-sick, and then dog-sick and other nasty things off the carpets, another disaster still stands out in my mind : ) I remember we had had new carpet laid in our new house at the same time as the road was resurfaced. The children ran in the house with tar stuck to their shoes right over that lovely new carpet1 I have to admit that I sat down and wept!

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  3. Victoria N

    As a mother of a toddler with a cream carpet (put in whilst I was pregnant for some inexplicable reason!) I should have expected my toddler to ruin it. Nope, instead it was me, doing the ironing in front of the tv one night as instead of putting the hot iron on the end of the ironing board, it slipped and went onto the carpet! For some reason I was in shock and stared at it in disbelief on the floor, before hubby shouted - pick it up! Alas it was too late and we have been left with an iron shaped singe on the carpet. I would usually try to cover it with a rug but it is in such an awkward position the rug would look odd positioned over it, so in the middle of the carpet it stays!

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  4. barbara daniels

    ok I was changing my babys nappy in my sisters living room, who is the cleanest tidiest perosn alive and as I stood up I slipped on the dirty nappy, went flying and my foot covered in bay poo smeared all over my sisters cream carpet, Nightmare

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  5. Ilkem Mehmet

    Fingers crossed

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  6. Cheryl Edwards

    I would love a new carpet as a Christmas present.

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  7. Kate nunneley

    What can I say after 10 years of 2 children, 4 cats and a clumsy manner myself, there is no carpet anymore, just patches of wear and tea stains & red wine. The worst was a full large glass of red spilling. Luckily on that occasion for the carpet it nearly all fell on my laptop which is now broken as a result. Shame it didnt spill on the carpet. If it did go on the carpet it would have joined the permanent stains and wear up and would have made at least that half of the carpet someone toned together!

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