To think air fresheners are for dirty people who don't open windows enough?

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They are so hideous, and actually make my eyes smart, as I discovered when house hunting.

The only time (apart from obvious causes that were easy to remedy, like an un-emptied nappy bin, or cooking smells) that I've noticed a gross smell in my house was when the spare room wasn't getting hoovered regularly enough, so we just stepped up the cleaning.

All the adverts for them, please can't people just air their homes more??

I have all the windows open all year round but when my youngest fills their nappy taking the sides off the house wouldn't shift the stench. I prefer the smell of (some) air freshener to poo. Though I agree that some are sickly and set my migraines off. YABU.

My nostrils are still tingling at the thought of dog poop and Fruits of the Forest air freshener......

This thread is (unintentially or not) SO funny! I am sat at working fighting so hard not to burst out laughing! My colleagues must think I have some kind of strange facial tic!

YANBU OP, air fresheners stink, I far prefer to open a window and let the smell of the outdoors in unless my OH has been slurry spreading on the fields around our house but that's an entirely different story

Man Poo is in a whole different league to any other poo, it also has lower flushability and just keeps bobbing back! Bleurgh!

zukiecat you are joking surely?? Not opened your windows in 8 years?? Excuse me for asking but are you one of these extremely strange people who also paints their windows closed??

Aren't they just a bit Hyacinth Bucket?

How can you never open any windows ?

you would hate my house Zukie, french doors and windows are always wide open.

It is the stench/air freshener combo issue that is disturbing me....
Man poo & Sandalwood febreze
Boiled egg & white flowers
Left - over lasagne in the bin & Neutradol......( not me, of course. Someone else)

Never opened a window?!

I clean and open windows, but I have a febreeze plug in for emergencies, it's rarely turned on unless someone is coming round and I think the house might smell a bit of dog, when it works wonders as does (whispers) shake'n'vac.

Chemical air fresheners are just disgusting. I tried one once, and only once. It lasted five minutes and my DS coughing attack lasted all night. Best house scenter I ever discovered was when making strawberry jam - a pan of slow simmering strawberries gives the most exquisite fragrance.

Ha ha! First time I've laughed all the grim day today. The only thing worse than a bad bad smell is the bad bad smell with a layer of air freshener over the top.

I think the opposite actually. Ime, it's the cleanest that love a bit of air freshener.

Well if someone can please tell me how to open my downstairs windows I'd be delighted. Stupid decorator painted them all shut last summer, great big sash windows that used to let in loads of lovely fresh air. Can't shift the buggers now.

Upstairs no problem. I could cry, I adore open windows, even in the dead of winter.

Lets hear it for shake n vac!
DD2 pee and citrus blossom

YABU I have an internal bathroom....

I burn a Yankee candle tart in the downstairs rooms each day to fragrance the house otherwise it still smells like plaster and cement!

It's not always possible to have windows open though. Never mind about rain, what about when you go out for work?

Gwendoline, get the bloody decorator back in! I had this problem, you need a sharp knife and a boldness of spirit.

It's not healthy to not air the house. Mould grows in the condensation created by breathing and it can become very dangerous.

Some air fresheners can smell quite nice (granted I get what you mean about the nasty ones - house we moved into had an air freshener plugged in, very quickly unplugged!). Nonetheless as some genuinely do make a room smell lovely it's going to have to be a YABU.

Gwendoline - it might be worth trying to run a Stanley Knife (very carefully!) along the window edges to cut the paint and free up the windows? But mind the blade!

Oh and I prefer fresh air and have only used air fresheners in the loo occassionally.
And it's true a struck match is very effective!!

......... have I spelt occassionally wrong? I never think it "looks right"

YANBU. They are naff beyond words. Opens window or even, if you have to, light a decent scented candle, if it is that bad.

I would but he went back to Lithuania! :o

Stanley knife y'say? I'm not too bad at DIY but anyone I mention this too sucks their breath in over their teeth and shakes their head sadly.

i am only fresh and natural, i wipe my arse with fresh flower petals

yes how awsome am i, prsaise me for my naturalness