To order an Indian takeaway while babysitting?

Walking into someones house and it smells of 'Autumnul Notes' or 'Turquoise sea breeze' is nausiating. Get off your high horses, you think your house smells amazing, some of us think it is the scent equivelant of 'Live, Love, Laugh' stencilled onto the living room wall.

Absolutely this! 😅

You seem like lots of fun Eliza.

I once rented an apartment solely because of the wonderful Indian cooking smells coming from next door. Paid off too, I can now make a mean curry from scratch, courtesy of lovely neighbours.

I don't think OP asking this makes her incompetent. I have never been a babysitter nor hired a babysitter so I clicked on the thread as I was curious as to the etiquette - had no idea!

Glad to discover it's generally considered fine, less glad to have to dodge sundry racism throughout the thread. Firstly curries smell delicious, secondly smells dissipate quickly. Open a bloody window.

All the people with their 'my house must smell amazing and I can not have Indian food smells' posts are making me laugh.

Your house probably stinks of some air freshener or stupid plintless smelly candle and your lungs are full of scent chemicals.
My house smells of nothing, or if I am cooking it smells of food for the half hour that I am cooking then the smell goes away again.
Walking into someones house and it smells of 'Autumnul Notes' or 'Turquoise sea breeze' is nausiating.

Get off your high horses, you think your house smells amazing, some of us think it is the scent equivelant of 'Live, Love, Laugh' stencilled onto the living room wall.

Can younot just ask your brother if he minds and say you were hesitant because your mum said about the smell

Either he will say its no problem, or say actually can you eat a different food as we can't stand the smell either?

We order indian a lot and love the smell, but maybe your mum has a super sensitive nose. My DH can't be in the house if I am using nail polish, it makes him feel physically sick. Which I think is really odd but your mum srems to have a similar sensitivity to Indian food.

We always pay for our paid babysitter’s takeaway. Can’t expect them to eat pasta and fish fingers

Interesting the amount of people posting here who are offended/disgusted by the smell of curry.

Remember that 'Indian food' to many people is simply 'food'.

The least someone could do for free babysitting is stand you a nice takeaway.

Ya, order it. Your mum could have a thing about spending money on takeaways in general. You could open a crack of window if your worried about smell

All food smells! If I was cooking or ordering something that didn't smell of anything i wouldn't particularly want to eat it. Everyone saying they wouldn't cook indian food in their homes, what exactly do you eat?

Agree with PP that there are some v racist overtones on this thread.

You do have to wonder what kind of houses some people live in reading these comments. It appears any kind of technology has passed them by.

But would you impose those rules on someone doing you a massive favour in the shape of several evenings' free babysitting?

Well then, just ask them! I'd eat it at the table rather than on the sofa, though.

When my younger sister babysat for me back in the day, I used to offer to get her a takeaway and she'd always bloody order extra to eat it the next day, cheeky mare. Still kind of fair enough though, of course you can order one!

So ask them? I suspect if you've both had a curry-deprived childhood due to your Dad's aversion, your brother regularly gets Indian takeaways and is absolutely fine with the smell.

What do you mean by ‘smelling nice’?

Do you have fresh flowers daily in every single room or use lots of artificial sprays (…that will give you cancer)?

Just ask them?!

Why would the house stink? Do you never eat hot food?

Chips, roast chicken, coffee...?

All Curry smells amaaaazing! 🤤

I see her point. Can't you just ask them if they'd mind the smell? It wouldn't bother me.

Just ask your brother! He knows your mum and dad too so you can totally give him the whole story and say you love it but don’t eat it at home because your parents hate the smell. Honestly even if he doesn’t love the smell he’ll probably say it’s fine and mean it because your helping him out by babysitting and it’s a small way to return the favor to you. He might even offer to pay for it.

No, apparently boiled beef and cabbage water and over used chip oil/beige food baking don’t smell. Its a fact.
Nor do all the synthetic “perfumes” to keep British houses "smelling synthetic nice” and to get rid of the non existent smells of meat, cabbage and chip oil.

The only food in the world which smells in a house is “curry”. 🙄

Blimey you're getting a bit of a hard time on here OP! I think you're right, some people really don't like the smell of Indian food (I love it!) so I think it's probably reasonable to ask your brother/SIL if it's ok to order in.

I wouldn't like my house to smell of any of the above as well as curry.

Sorry, hadn't rtft and see it's already been mentioned!

Can you take a candle with you to light and try to counteract the food smell? I keep one in my kitchen for when I've been cooking lamb, that always leaves a lingering smell!