What's the most expensive damage your children have caused to your property?

[Anonymous]

My 5 year old DS and 3 year old DD were in my office (off limits area) when a babysitter was watching them and in the kitchen preparing dinner and the 5 year odl was chasing the 3 year old and tripped on the TV cord and accidentally pulled my small flat screen (~$450) off the table and broke it completely. My 3 year old was drawing with a pen on our soft wood dining table (dumb idea soft wood + dining table = why do they make those) and now we will forever have that doodle at fancy dinner time. Let me go on... expensive carved coffee table has some sort of doll's bottle left on it that then leaked and warped the wood white-ish grey becuase no one noticed for at least a day and the table was wet the whole time. I could go on...

[Anonymous]

Sharpie to our (new) tile floor. We have not had it repaired yet but estimate, based on the cost to install it new, that it will cost about $2,000. The $5K poster above made me feel better!

[Anonymous]

DS hasn't destroyed nearly as much as DH. If you set a glass down on an end table for even a second, he'll scream, "YOU NEED A COASTER!" He's five. DH, on the other hand, has left rings on nearly every piece of furniture we own, including several antiques and a cabinet made for me by my dad.

[Anonymous]

Hi Adequate. You're funny. Nice to have you here.

[Anonymous]

My best friend's children put all the refridgerator magnets on the plasma flat screen and ruined it. . . left green splotches everywhere. They had had it 24 minutes according to my friend.

[Anonymous]

My daughter broke my brand new designer glasses in half faster than I could say no. She hurts me all the time as well, and has done some body damage.

[Anonymous]

"Is a uterus property? My kid got stuck in mine and they had to cut it open to get it out. Mind you, this was a mint-condition, one-owner model in cherry red with self-cleaning feature. Alas, the motor on the automatic retractable door was defective, but other than that it was a gem.

I suggested that she be required to sew it shut again but Dr. Nancy Negative said that infants shouldn't wield sharp tools. That was when I decided that western medicine was just not for me.

Instead, I'll subtract the bills from my daughter's college fund. That'll show her."

AWESOME.

[Anonymous]

A neighbor's kid took a ball-peen hammer to a hand-restored vintage convertible owned by another neighbor. You should have seen that guy's face as he went door to door to find out whose kid did it. The culprit was a four year old.

Sank a boat. A real inboard engine boat. (5 and 7 year olds, also not mine).

[Anonymous]

nothing too serious from mine as yet. A sharpie on the kitchen floor, a few paint marks on the walls (washable). I am expecting a second so who know what chaos will happen when they are two of them. Speaking of damage - my best friend has triplets, the first time I visited their new house (they moved in about6 months before I made the 8 hr trip). I was shocked at what greeted me. The exposed walls and some of the lower cabinets of their eat-inkitchen, which was about 200+ sq. ft, was totally covered in a combination of markers. crayons and paint. She told me that she got tired of cleaning the walls/telling the children to stop and decided to let them have the room. I can only image what it will cost her to get that kitchen back to normal if she ever decides to sell the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:nothing too serious from mine as yet. A sharpie on the kitchen floor, a few paint marks on the walls (washable). I am expecting a second so who know what chaos will happen when they are two of them. Speaking of damage - my best friend has triplets, the first time I visited their new house (they moved in about6 months before I made the 8 hr trip). I was shocked at what greeted me. The exposed walls and some of the lower cabinets of their eat-inkitchen, which was about 200+ sq. ft, was totally covered in a combination of markers. crayons and paint. She told me that she got tired of cleaning the walls/telling the children to stop and decided to let them have the room. I can only image what it will cost her to get that kitchen back to normal if she ever decides to sell the house.

Wow. When I was little I used to draw the tables and walls with crayons. No punishment ever worked until my mom finally made me scrub it all off with a sponge. That takes a while when you're 5. I never did it again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sharpie to our (new) tile floor. We have not had it repaired yet but estimate, based on the cost to install it new, that it will cost about $2,000. The $5K poster above made me feel better!

Magic eraser will get that out. It got the sharpie off my cherry kitchen cabinets.

[zumbamama]

mine broke a laptop, a DVD player and a VCR. Also defaced a family oil painting and filled seven rolls of film (Tokyo trip) with apple juice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son colored with marker on our pre-kids Italian leather sofa (which I'm ashamed to state the orginal cost of the sofa). I have the repair people come out and dye over it, for $85 a visit, they have come twice. I wish I had just gone to marlo!

In this case, shame is being used in place of saying, I'm so damn rich that I can afford a high price italian leather sofa. Wait until jr. gets his license and you give him you 2 years used lexus suv to teach him responsibility....but you forgot to tell him it needs oil to run. Hold on for a few years. Oh shame, so bittersweet.

[Anonymous]

dropped an entire bottle of Bert's Bee's baby oil on his bedroom carpet. We've had it professionally cleaned multiple times and now it is just a big brown stain. We aren't replacing yet - we'll wait till we move in a couple of years.

[Anonymous]

My kids got into my jewelry box and lost a half carat diamond earring. I have been looking for it for years and have a terrible feeling it went into the duct work.