To leave my husband over a pair of football boots?!

[scampiandchips1]

Posting here for traffic

Please help!
My husbands new football boots have nearly caused us to divorce!! They have literally stunk our house out for 2 weeks now, the smell is the most powerful intense smell and it’s got everywhere! It smells like a damp smell. He’s washed them thoroughly and used special sports shoe odour eaters on them but nothing is working, he doesn’t even think the smell is that bad - it’s horrendous!

Any advice? He won’t send them back or leave them outside so I’m literally thinking the only way to resolve this is to LTB! 

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

I feel like I give this advice a lot, but a fresh unused tea bag in each boot will absorb the smell. It works for DS's army boots.

[AnaWinter]

Have you got a garden op? Open the door, throw them as far as you can. You are welcome.

[TalkingSheds]

Urgh! Are you sure it's the boots? How can they smell that bad? Bag them up and put them outside OP.

[winefortea]

Put them in a plastic bag and freeze them? I've read that freezing can kill the bacteria that cause the smell. Never tried it though so not sure how true it is!

[ShatnersBassoon]

Just chuck them outside. Fresh air might help. They aren't going to get cold and lonely out there.

[scampiandchips1]

Thanks, some great advice here!
I think I’ve been over nagging him on this as it’s really affecting me, so he’s now very defensive about them! I’m so embarrassed about the smell, even when I open the door to the postman!
It’s the worst smell I’ve ever smelt, plus I’m pregnant which is making it worse!

[scampiandchips1]

Re the teabag, do I put it in dry or wet? Going to try that one first

[GetOffTheTableMabel]

Does he have a car? If they let everyone in the boot of the car, you won't be able to smell them and, if you're really lucky, he'll end up having to acknowledge that they stink.

[GetOffTheTableMabel]

Gah. Autocorrect fail if they live in the boot of the car

[Shiftymake]

Being pregnant enhances smells as I remember it. Just let your dh know so he has some understanding for your reactions. As for the teabag: used but dried out, put into shoe.

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

Dry teabag, unused.

[allegretto]

And then make him a cup of tea with it.

[DangerousBeanz]

Burn them.

[RosaRosaRose]

Andnone : putting a bag of Yorkshire's finest in each boot now

[Leeds2]

Do you have a garage, or shed, they could live in maybe?

[RosaRosaRose]

Really looking forward

[OnlyTheDepthVaries]

I’m sure this was a common problem a few years back with a particular brand of football boot (can’t remember which). The smell was like cat pee and hideous. I think the shops ended up receiving the boots back as faulty.

[CiderwithBuda]

DS had football boots like that. Are they Nike? It's something to do with the glue I think. From what I remember researching at the time. We binned them in the end. Tried everything.

Washed them in bio washing powder. Sprayed with freshening stuff. Febreezed them. Left them outside.

[quercuscircus]

Yuck :( Fill them up with bicarb of soda perhaps?

[AlternativeTentacle]

Tie the laces together and sling them over a washing line. Doesn't necessarily have to be yours.

[PashPash]

If you're pregnant you are allowed to puke in them

True fact

[Normalserviceissuspended]

Just put them in the boot of his car.

[HotelEuphoria]

Garage, shed, car boot or if none of these are available in a bin liner knotted at the top.

[RunRabbitRunRabbit]

I remember DH's cheapo plastic cycling shoes giving me the same problem when we lived in a flat with no outdoor space. I am much more sensitive to smells than him.

I put them in a plastic box with a good snap shut air tight lock. It was something like this

It totally contained the smell. Extra bonus was that when he opened the box the stink nearly knocked him off his feet. All the suffering was on him not me. He bought new shoes.

Years later he has discovered that he has to buy the expensive shoes to have no smells.

[NeverGoOutOfStyle]

My DP plays ice hockey and oh my god, the smell of that kit is horrendous and there's so bloody much of it! My only advice is to make him keep them in the car, or put them in the garden or garage. We find once it's been washed it's a little better (it requires a whole bottle of zoflora in with it while it's being washed) but otherwise it is to be aired out in the garage or in his car, and his car only because it's hideous. He also can't smell it, I think they go nose-blind to it.