A tube of Pringles similar to the tin a Mumsnet user found in her son 's bedroom filled with urine . Messy teenage boys ' bedrooms ... they 're the stuff nightmares are made of . But a mother on the parenting website Mumsnet has now clarified just how gruesome it can get when clearly out the room of an adolescent , after discovering a Pringles tube full of urine . The mum , who goes by the username 'myotherusernameisbetter ' revealed she made the discovering while cleaning out her son 's room this weekend . She wrote : 'Today [ my second son ] ( 13 ) was away for the day and I was waiting on hospital visiting time as my Mum is very unwell , I needed something to keep me occupied so I decided to do [ his ] room as a treat . 'Apart from the dirty laundry I found : 2 empty juice bottles , 1 empty smoothie carton , 1 empty milk shake carton , 6 empty crisp packets , 3 apple cores , a pile of orange peel , a pile of sweet wrappers , some bits of popcorn , 2 plastic bowls , 2 plastic cups ... ... and a Pringle tube full of urine . 'We are going to have to have a talk when he gets home . The lid was on - I reached out to pick it up expecting it to be light ... ..it was heavy , and full of liquid - i opened and sniffed . 'It 's just as well he keeps his windows open and heating off . ' The revelation caused some shock to other users on the forum , with some saying that they would be serious consequences for such behaviour in their households . But other mothers , often of teenage boys , were sympathetic , with many sharing their own horror stories of items left to rot in their children 's bedrooms . One user called SoupDragonwrite : ' I did [ my son 's room ] whilst he was away over half term . ' I filled 4 kerbside recycling crates with paper , 2 with bottles and cans , 3/4 of the landfill bin and did approximately 47 billion loads of laundry which mostly consisted of odd socks . ' I was a little surprised not to find a dead rat . ' Another called BellMcEnd said : ' I mucked out [ my eight-year-old son 's ] bed today . 'Under his pillow I found : 4 books , 52p , a medal from sports day , a weird piece of felt he 'd been doing something with at school for art , a lego man and a lip salve . ' I only changed it ten days ago . ' Teenage boy in messy bedroom ( posed by model ) One disgruntled mother is so fed up with her son 's untidy habits that she has given up attempting to tidy his room . Faithope said : 'My [ son ] is 16 and a slob when it comes to his room . 'Dirty pants and clothes continue to lay on the floor- the pile of clean and ironed clothes are piling up as I just add to it . T. 'The fact that [ my son ] thinks he has run out of clean pants and has helped himself to his dad 's so he has a pair to wear ... if only he looked in that lovely pile of laundry on his bedroom floor , he would find the 20 pairs that are clean and ready to wear . ' The Mumsnet discussion about disgusting items found in teenagers ' bedrooms . The forum debate took on a similar tone to a conversation on the site in 2012 , when one user asked a question about a 'penis beaker ' that almost crashed the site . The person , called SaraCrewe , wrote : 'We have a dedicated post-sex cleanup area on the bedside table . ' A box of tissues , a small bin , and a beaker of clean water for temporary cleaning/dunking while the bathroom is occupied by me . 'Apparently our penis beaker is strange and not the done thing . ' It was met with more than a thousand comments from mumsnet users who called the beaker 'disgusting . '
Mumsnet discussion today centred on disgusting items in teen bedrooms . It started after one mother said she had found a Pringles tube of urine . The item was not labelled as being for children, but the mum claimed it looked like something that would be used by adults to clean themselves up.