I grew up with a strict 15 minutes daily of “all the windows open no matter what the temperature”.
Does wonders, and 15 minutes is nothing for the thermal inertia of the house.
It’s reinvigorating, too.
My scoutmaster’s house was a fucking pigsty. I still remember the smell and piles of junk…
The man had it out for me and was a pretty sad sack for zeroing in on a child while he was in his 50s. He used to rail on me for kicks and is the reason I left the scouts; made life but then said no.
Now his disgusting ass house is in my rearview mirror while I still live rent free in his tiny brain. I make more in a year than his stunted ass made in a decade while I hear tales of him mentioning me to new scouts… years after the fact.
All this is to say yea someone’s smell turned into a saga and I have lived it down. Meanwhile, with any luck their body burns up and fertilizes the rice fields of china with the cinders of his dead remains. *shellac
I live in a constant state of anxiety that people feel that way about my house but are just too nice to say anything
Go away for a weekend and when you come back, that’s what others smell.
We have 2 dogs, so I get a little paranoid that our house has dog smell. So it’s always a relief to come back from a few days away to find that it just smells completely normal.
Never been to a house of people that have dogs and there wasn’t a dog smell.
Share your secrets
It’s the reason I buy so many candles. I can cheat the system.
Now your house smells like candles and that.
One friend lives in an old house with a gas leak
Drove me fucking nuts
I love that the gas leak is just accepted as a feature of the home, like bay windows or a sunken living room.
Without the gas leak the rent would be almost double.
But the gas bill…
Knew a family that had a gas leak, it was underground near the house though.
They’d had the gas company there multiple times, but in the end just shrugged and said it wasn’t dangerous and never found or fixed it.
I know somebody whose house blew up from a gas leak, killed one of the tenants. The one that the landlord paid $7 an hour to help change the hot water heater and did it wrong. The ATF investigated and declared an oopsie. Dead guys dumbass wife despite knowing there’s a gas leak and being told not to light a cigarette lit a cigarette.
I’ve changed a gas water heater before, and I can confirm that you have to be a dumbass not to be real careful to do it right, especially if you live in the house!
I have changed several. Have yet to kill anybody.
That you know of
The city I changed them in would have had me crucified if I killed someone with my work, the homeowner gets a pass.
“Lives?” Present tense?!
Unfortunately. Been a while since I visited
Then he should at least fix it himself, if for some reason calling the landlord or the fire department aren’t options.
Growing up, one of our elderly cats started pooping on the floor almost daily, and even before that she refused to bury it in the litter box. I can confirm you can get used to any smell to the point you barely notice it until you’ve spent time elsewhere.
(I hated living there)
Yeah, where I live. My roommates don’t stay up on cleaning up after the dogs. The dogs don’t mess in the house but the fur is EVERYWHERE! The house and yard isn’t big enough for 3 dogs.
Well, they’re kicking me put, so once I can find a new place, it won’t be my problem anymore.
Some people with well water have water that just tastes awful and they think it tastes fine.
Everywhere but my house smells weird and it irks me almost as much as how nobody else notices everywhere smells weird.
might be your nose?
