# Necessary for Hygenic Living, Learned the Hard Way **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830 "2007-04-27T04:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/61 "2007-05-01T01:52:52Z")
Don’t leave the decorated Halloween pumpkin on the top shelf of the china cabinet in the dining room where you rarely go. It is difficult to get 5 month old liquified pumpkin gunk off the shelf (luckily the shelf itself was removeable). If you have tree branches overhanging your roof and no cap on your chimney, squirrels will get into the chimney, and won’t be able to get out. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/62 "2007-05-01T02:55:36Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] Also, if you’re a college age slob guy living with your buddy and neither of you ever use the oven, and you decide to bake a turkey for Thanksgiving-- do not put the carcass back in the oven because you’re out of counter space! Weeks later it will become… fragrant… and the oven will be the last place you check. :eek: [/QUOTE] You never lived in sonoma county did you? My husband has a story **EXACTLY** like that. He says the carcass was mummified when they found it months later. I guess they never noticed the smell because they were, well, guys. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/63 "2007-05-01T12:51:53Z")
Not my own story, but happened to a friend of a friend. Cats are weak and lack opposable thumbs. They can get into almost anything, but not into an oven. It makes a dandy place to store all of the cat food, including the canned stuff. DO NOT forget that it’s in there before preheating the oven when making cookies. boom. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/64 "2007-05-01T13:05:01Z")
Cooked cauliflower will go rotten faster & nastier than almost anything I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/65 "2007-05-01T13:38:13Z")
[QUOTE=The Librarian] Cooked cauliflower will go rotten faster & nastier than almost anything I can remember. [/QUOTE] Oh, god, that’s such a gross smell. Any vegetable in that family, really. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/66 "2007-05-01T16:32:04Z")
Do not clean out the fridge just before going on vacation. Not if the cleaned-out stuff will be sitting in the garbage. Especially not if the garbage can is in the garage. And most EMPHATICALLY not if it’s July :eek: :smack: Children need to inform adults **IMMEDIATELY** if a toilet won’t flush. They should not re-use the toilet until an adult has dealt with it. Especially if that toilet is in the basement, where the adults rarely venture. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/67 "2007-05-01T18:18:43Z")
[QUOTE=Shera] You never lived in sonoma county did you? My husband has a story **EXACTLY** like that. He says the carcass was mummified when they found it months later. I guess they never noticed the smell because they were, well, guys. [/QUOTE] Must be pretty common! :eek: My story happened to my buddies up in Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830/68 "2007-05-01T18:24:16Z")
Cooked shrimp does not store in the refrigerator well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/necessary-for-hygenic-living-learned-the-hard-way/401830.md?page=3)