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Fawkes
30-10-2009, 10:52am
:doh:With the help of a friend, I took the car seats covers off the Maxi Cosi :zombie: ETA: From the outside didn't look too bad.


Never seen so much mould

:sick: sprayed it twice with mould cleaner, washed it twice :zombie: in the machine.


I'm doing it once every 8 weeks from now on not once every two years.

I feel very sick...........:doh:

There was a whole new world under there.:zombie:
Sazzle
30-10-2009, 10:57am
Oh dear! :lol:

DD1 has gone through various phases of car sickness so ours have always been washed every couple of months anyway, but still even after just a couple of months tehre are always tons of crumbs etc, even though she never eats in the car? :puzzled:

washing car seats and their covers is one of my most hated tasks :twisted:
Mrs B
30-10-2009, 10:57am
We just find things like raisins and biscuit crumbs in there - but enough to feed an army!
1980babe
30-10-2009, 11:00am
Its the piecing it all back together that does my nut in :nuts:
Fawkes
30-10-2009, 11:06am
Its the piecing it all back together that does my nut in :nuts:


:grin:I'm making him a cup of tea, and he's doing it :teehee:
Chickster
30-10-2009, 11:13am
Oh gawd, I hadn't even thought about washing the covers of the car seat. How scummy is that?!!? I can foresee a weekend of much swearing with me attempting to put the buggy and car seat covers back on.
Blonde Girl
30-10-2009, 02:40pm
Oh God I have never ever washed the car seat covers :oops:

I think I am too scared to now, for fear of what I may find :zombie:
mrsdunny207
30-10-2009, 02:42pm
Oh God I have never ever washed the car seat covers :oops:

I think I am too scared to now, for fear of what I may find :zombie:

WSS :oops:

DD is due a new booster anyway :wink:.
zwinnie
30-10-2009, 02:45pm
Oh God I have never ever washed the car seat covers :oops:

I think I am too scared to now, for fear of what I may find :zombie:

Exactly WSS :oops:

And oh my lord, I've been passing the carseats on from one child to the next, so Ines is in a carseat that has been used for nearly 4 years WITH NO WASH. :zombie:
Blonde Girl
30-10-2009, 03:12pm
And oh my lord, I've been passing the carseats on from one child to the next, so Ines is in a carseat that has been used for nearly 4 years WITH NO WASH. :zombie:

Poor O - by the time he gets it :zombie::zombie::zombie:

:teehee::teehee:
Em29
30-10-2009, 03:17pm
Oh I know, I had to jetwash raisins out the back of Ella's seat a few months ago :yuck:
Chocolate Lips
30-10-2009, 03:25pm
Yuck, I've never washed ours.
Cindy
30-10-2009, 03:31pm
Oh god, we've never washed ours either, despite DD1 smearing mushed up biscuit on her car seat the first day we bought it, 15 months ago :oops:

I think I'll add this to DH's growing list of jobs for this weekend.
Ruby
30-10-2009, 03:36pm
I can't believe people have never washed their car seats. My children are rancid so I've absolutely HAD to wash them at least once every 6 months. I have heaved doing it too. Recently one of the seats smelt so badly that I was forced to investigate, only to find a lump of cheese decaying in the insides.
Cindy
30-10-2009, 03:41pm
I can't believe people have never washed their car seats.

Thinking about it, we have washed the covers of the baby seat, after various leaky nappy/vomitting incidents. But we've never washed the covers of DD1's stage 1 car seat. After the day 1 biscuit smear, we don't let her eat in the car, so although it must be pretty grimy and yuck, and shouldn't actually have food in it. (But I don't want to think about it too much :yeahright:)
Hazy
30-10-2009, 03:49pm
I only washed our first car seat cover when I passed the seat onto a friend. Tbh I didn't even remove it I just sort of sponged off the muck.

His current seat covers haven't been washed and I have absolutely no plans to. I know there are raisens there because pretty much every time DS climbs in he goes 'mmmm raisen' :teehee: DS isn't sick in the car and he hasn't had any nappy incidents so I don't feel the need to wash the car seat cover anymore than I tend to wash the car seats full stop - a good vacuum sorts them out.
Fawkes
30-10-2009, 04:58pm
What got me was how disgusting they were and my LO is never ever sick in the car and always good with food. :sick: I'd encourage anyone else to get them off and clean them. I'll be doing it regularly now.

The thought of them sitting on that mould. If I'd seen that in a house, I'd not be living there the next day :sick: never mind on a sofa or in a cot.

I feel queasy thinking about it. But at least it is done now.