AIBU to think I'm the last person left alive who airs rooms?

[AnyoneforTurps]

I like to open the bedroom window for half an hour or so in the morning to let out DH's noxious nocturnal fumes the stale air. All my friends think this is a bizarre eccentricity: right up there with a penis beaker. Apparently, airing rooms went out with twin tubs and Formica, but I think the room smells lovely & fresh after a good airing .

Now I feel like a tragic throwback: the last Neanderthal watching nervously as the smart-arse Homo sapiens start rubbing sticks together and filing the corners off a perfectly good square wheel. Am I really the last living airer?

I do it. Especially downstairs

I do this. I also air the beds. Covers are turned back until the room has been aired

I do it when I'm doing the cleaning. Even in the winter. Makes the house feel fresh.

I don NOT have a penis beaker.

*do NOT

My house is so drafty I don't need to. I do air beds, though.

I'm all for it!

You comfort me, Ladies. Especially the bed airers - naturally, I air the bed too

I do it, though in my bedroom I have the window open all night too, whatever the weather. Like to have fresh air circulating and I can't sleep when it's shut.

Not at all. I air the house, every day. I assumed it was a house-keeping essential!

No, you're not the last person. Beds should be aired, and rooms should get a good blast of fresh air every day (although as I mostly go out to work, that doesn't happen so much in winter.

My mother's voice is still in my head, saying, "I don't know why they sell air-freshener, you just need to open the window and let some fresh air in."

(I have a great range of my mother's saying rattling round in my head, though she's been gone 4.5 years now. The fresh air one is pretty benign compared with the emotionally damaging ones. sigh )

I am a room airer too, I can't wait for some better.weather to arrive so that I can keep the windows open all evening.

My neighbour across the road lives in a small 1 bed house with 3 oversized poodles & she never opens the window. I went round to drop off a parcel once & nearly passed out due tl the smell. It was horrendous.

I air the house, I'd rather do that than spray and air-freshener and the rest.
Lovely clean air blowing through, scented garden smells, what's not to like?

I air the rooms and beds every day, if I miss a day (only if its arctic outside) I'm convinced the place smells musty!

And when the landlord had a damp specialist come round, he (damp man) praised me for leaving windows open to air rooms. < smug preen >

Another room and bed airier here too, can't understand need for air fresheners, open a window FFS.

You are not alone. I like to open all the bedroom windows and doors for an hour a day.

It's the laziest and cheapest way to make the house smell clean.

I do it as well, oxygen seems to disappear from the living room very quickly...Today the weather was ok so I left the bedroom windows open all morning :-) Loooove that fresh smell.
What do your friends do instead of airing? Use those smelly room fresheners?

I air morning and night - I need a cold bed (drives DH mad)

As soon as I get up it's curtains open, windows open.

How does one air a bed please?

I'm a wannabe room airer, who is perpetually trailed by a man whining that he's cold / doesn't like draughts / can't understand why I'm opening windows in the dead of winter. It's an uphill struggle.

Everyone airs the rooms where I live - most mornings I see puffs of duvets hanging out of windows and balconies all the way down the road.

Also when you are cleaning it stops you becoming a sweaty pig. Well me, not necessarily you.

We even have an old lady who airs herself. She stands on the balcony of her bedroom in a white cotton nightie, billowing in the fresh air every morning. She looks like the old lady from Titanic.

I only close my bedroom window in extreme temperatures and air most other rooms as much asd possible.

YABU. What company do you keep?!

I open the bedroom windows and turn down the covers every morning regardless of weather outside.

It's also good for reducing the risk of damp.

I have my bedroom window open all night, i need it cool in my room or i cant sleep and doesnt hurt to get some air in.