While we think that our home is our safe haven, in reality, it’s probably more dangerous than we realize.

Obvious things like gas-burning stoves and chemical cleaning products aside, there’s plenty of questionable stuff lying around that can inflict serious damage on us.

Recently, Reddit user Cool_Kid_Lit_Fam_Sam asked other people on the platform to list these potentially life-threatening household objects and that kickstarted a viral online discussion that has reached 4,400 comments and the number is still growing.

So we compiled some of the most popular replies and present them for your judgment—continue scrolling and upvote the ones you think we need to handle with great caution.

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#1

my mom used to boil a pot of bleach mixed with ammonia every saturday after cleaning. She said it was to “make the house smell clean” surprised im still alive

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#2

Not sure if this is entirely related but i feel like it’s surprising that most people don’t know that you can’t put out a grease fire with water

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#3

Pressure washers. The jet immediately penetrates the skin, injecting whatever’s inside the washer or lining the washer into the blood stream. Even new, first time use cases can cause severe damage to the body. Do NOT play with pressure washers.

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#4

Unsecured free-standing shelves are pretty dangerous, ESPECIALLY for kids who might try to climb on them.

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#5

Cold and flu products/pain killers containing paracetamol . You’re suffering. You taken paracetamol, then lemsip, then more paracetamol, then more lemsip etc, before you know it you’ve had 8g of paracetamol. Your liver starts to fail.

Read medicine labels. Don’t mix paracetamol products.

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#6

A peanut

The number of idiots who think it is so cool to catch peanuts in their mouth. The risk of it sailing into your lungs is far higher than you think.

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#7

Dryer lint causes nearly 3,000 fires every year. Source: Karen Kilgariff’s dad.

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#8

Magnets. Toddlers will put *anything* in their mouth. If they swallow one magnet, they’ll likely be fine. If they swallow two, they can have intestinal perforation. Without the words to communicate what’s wrong, it can easily be deadly

#9

A humidifier

I thought I cleaned it well but apparently you need to drown it in bleach and or hot water to get all that bacteria out from giving you a severe lung infection

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#10

you should clean ur toaster bc if too many bread crumbs collect they could actually catch fire thru the heat of the toaster.

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#11

Car jack.

If it fails and you didn’t use jack stands, and you can’t bench press a couple thousand pounds….. you gonna die.

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#12

Lift cords on blind windows. I’ve heard alot of stories of children getting tangled in them by the neck and dying. They have cordless blinds now so those are way better.

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#13

A toilet. Saw a picture once of a woman who stood on a toilet to change her bathroom lightbulb, the toilet broke in half and when she fell the toilet cut her back wide open and she bled out. You could see everything inside of her, brutal.

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#14

Cheap extension cords and power strips, especially ones without built in fail-safes that trip them if they are overloaded. The number of people who I see using those cheap, brown, dollar store extension cords, loading up every single available outlet, and leaving them plugged in 24/7 for years on end, makes me cringe.

#15

People who are left handed using everyday items that were designed to be used with your right hand

#16

Lithium batteries, idk if this is a normal household object but it burnt my whole 3200 sq ft house in 30 mins

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#17

Dinner plate…..let me explain.

Went to sleep watching TV on the couch😴
Woke up and decided to go to bed but tripped over the vacuum cleaner and fell face forward onto the corner of the coffee table.

I had left my plate from dinner there. Plate broke in half as I fell and sliced me open from lower right rib the top of left pelvis.

60km ambulance ride, hospital and surgery to put me back together.

#18

Garage door opener – specifically the springs. Those springs have a crapload of tension in them and if you mess with them they can mess you up. I had a contractor working at the house and he set up his work area in the garage. While he was working, one of the springs just broke on its own. He was okay, but he said it was so loud he thought a car had crashed into the garage.

#19

My brother’s father in law died falling off a ladder. He wasn’t even high up, just fell badly. His wife (a nurse) tried CPR, but he didn’t make it. He had no other health problems

#20

An air compressor not maintained can explode.

#21

Using compressed air cans near a stove.

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#22

A stovetop espresso maker.

The method of operation is the water in the bottom chamber boils, and the steam pressure pushes up the hot water through the coffee grounds into the upper pot.

There is only one safety on these things, and it’s the valve on the water tank. If the water is filled too high so it covers the valve, you’ve made a pipe bomb. If the coffee is ground too fine or tamped and the safety valve is blocked it WILL explode and send boiling coffee and water everywhere.

Luckily this is very easily avoidable. Never fill the water over the safety valve, and never tamp the coffee in the basket.

#23

Due to certifications like UL, and GFCI outlets in kitchens and bathrooms, there is way more safety built into things than decades ago. Certain woodworking tools are the first to come to mind, but most people realize they are dangerous. Using a table saw wrong and having it launch a board at your face? Or pulling yourself down onto it could easily cause fatal injuries if someone isn’t around to offer quick medical assistance. Lathes, mills, or drill presses can be super dangerous if they snag any loose clothing or hair and pull you in. It seems the people who are least aware of the danger are people who are fairly new to using them so they know the basics but end up overconfident and assume they know everything they need to know.

#24

Pressure cooker

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#25

Inserting a copper penny into a screw-in fuse box circuit as a “temporary measure” until replacement fuses can be obtained.

#26

A garbage disposal sink, seriously if you have long hair and it gets caught in it your in trouble

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#27

Cupboard door. One fast wrong turn and a lucky corner shot to the temple and you’re done.

#28

Every electrical appliance and outlet because it only takes about 10ma of current to start causing a heart to stop beating. And most homes have at least 100 amp main breakers and I know my place has a 200 amp main, they won’t pop when it kills you either.

Tons of the stuff in our homes has some sort of plastic in it. They get hot and can give off fumes that will at the very least make us sick and may even start to smoke but not be hot enough to cause the smoke to rise to set off a smoke detector.

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#29

I remember all the boilers being super dangerous when I was younger. I can’t really remember why because they where being fazed out in the UK when I was growing up but it was either carbon monoxide or they could blow up

#30

Too much of certain spices. Some spices contain small amounts of exotic substances, that when consumed too much of, can easily cause organ failure.

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