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

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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'm an airer!

Procrastinating, instead of making the bed up, you push the duvet to the bottom of the bed fold your bedding down so that the sheet is exposed.

Loving the old lady self-airing, Wally. I shall seriously consider adopting the habit, though probably in the back garden, to avoid being subjected to some form of psychiatric intervention from my friends

Thanks Dione I will start doing that, sounds like a good idea. I already open the windows though, never knew I was airing the room before this thread

I have to open the windows every day and they do say that by pulling back the duvet etc any bed bugs will die off !!

'How does one air a bed please?'

One removes the entire duvet and drapes it on a chair.
Then one prods the teenager until they are vertical and heading for the bathroom, and takes advantage of the absence to fold the duvet at the foot of the bed.
It stays like that until around 2am when the teenager blunders back to bed and rolls up in the duvet.

I air my bed by virtue of never ever making it

Bedrooms aired a couple of times a week; downstairs less so.

silverapples

I'm a room airer, even in winter.

There are four key aspects to a fresh smelling house - clean people, clean clothes, clean linen (bedding and towels) and aired rooms.

-24C outside.

No I do not air rooms. My oil bill is already $600 a month.

I always air the rooms and beds. There is usually a window or two open a crack all the time to let air circulate.

My bedroom window is always open on the latch, even in this weather.

Heater is also very low because I have an electric over blanket and I like a toastie bed with cool fresh air.

I always have the back door open in the mornings when I have my coffee and fag. The stairs leads right down to it so it blows up and down.

Quick question; my bathroom doesn't have a window, how can I make it nicer in there? Less...stanky?

I thought most people did this? I open the windows as soon as I've pulled the duvet back. Airs the bed, freshens the air, makes the place feel nicer.
Shut them after my shower if I've going out or leave them ajar for a good hour if I'm at home. All day in Spring/Summer.

Love opening all the windows and doors on a nice day and having that fresh air going right through.

I do live in the countryside though. When I lived in a city, my apartment was on a busy road and the dust and crap from the traffic wasn't exactly refreshing.

Is airing beds when you don't make them in the morning, in which case that's what I do!

Oh yes, windows open, duvet pulled back and small window open during my shower here - fresh air is great stuff!

I do whenever it is cool enough, in the summer it is 50c and the house smells really musty. I like to create a really good wind tunnel complete with slamming doors nd billowing curtains

I love airing the house. I spent last night staying with a friend, in a room that stunk add it hadn't been aired for ages. I came home and opened lots of windows and it was lovely. especially on a sunny day like yesterday.

I don't do it everyday (other than bedroom).

I can't sleep unless the window is open, in the winter it's just open a crack but I have to have fresh air.

The rest of the windows are open for at least 10 mins everyday. It's the office I hate, they all sit there breathing in each other's air, it's hot and stuffy but they moan when I open a window, I have rearranged my desk so I am under the sky light which is open a little bit and it's lovely.

If you air in this weather though what do you do about your heating? My lovely warm air would just be pouring out the open window if I left it open for an hour or so.

I rarely have the heating on in the day, and when the sun is coming into the room it is fresh rather than cold.

I air upstairs all year round - the bedrooms smell really musty/damp otherwise.

I don't have central heating (storage heaters) and my house is always warm enough even with the windows open for a 20mins or so in the morning.

Mind you I don't feel the cold and hate over heated rooms.

If it's cold I turn down/off that radiator and keep the door closed while it's airing. You might lose some warm leftover farts air but at least you aren't heating the garden at the same time.

I do it too.

Open all windows for at least an hour or so every morning.

Mind, here (Italy) Thursday is duvet day. All the housewives stack their bedding on their balconies all morning. I have been told it's to get rid of any bedbuggy type monsters, although a science teacher friend told me that's a load of bollocks because the temperature would have to be about minus 10 to freeze the bastards dead and they'd be better off sticking the sheets in the deep freeze.

I love to air rooms. They smell so lovely and fresh afterwards. DD likes her room to smell sort of fuggy and teenagery so i sneak in and stealth air when she is at school!