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 open bedroom windows wide every morning. Bathroom window is opened wide morning and evening(after baths/showers) and usually left open a crack all day. Kitchen window is open while cooking and usually for a while afterwards. My house still seems to retain cooking smells though.

I air all the rooms for an hour a day, every day.

I thought this was normal? Never thought there would be people who wouldn't

I air rooms when I am in. But three days a week we are all out from 7.30am to 6 pm. In the summer DH wages a war with pollen and liked to seal up the houses as tight as he can.

My bedroom windows are open all year round whatever the weather.
Downstairs all windows are on the vent so there is air circulating, but are open if I am in the house.
I don't do mustiness!

I air the house and the bed. Mind you, our bedroom and bathroom windows are left open on the latch almost all the time. Quite a few of my neighbours also air their duvets by hanging them out the windows.

I do it too, every day, same with the beds. It drives my husband to the point of distraction. In 23 years together the biggest compromise I've made is to close the bedroom window at night in Winter.

I do this every morning

You and my 60 something MIL so you're not alone.

I make sure my heating is off when I air rooms, it's a waste otherwise.

Our neighbours never open a window, their house is damp and musty as a consequence. They aren't airing even though they're selling which makes my mind boggle.

I do this aa do most people. Bit trampy not to and I have pretty low standards.

I do it or the house is stuffy

I thought everyone airs rooms every day certainly everyone i know. It smells better.

I air the house everyday too.

I am a slattern in many ways but I always open the windows and air the beds.
The worst thing about sleeping in the loft room is the I can't leave the velux window open in all weathers. Well, I could but would get rained on!
DS1 9 hates me opening his window, he shuts it when he gets the chance and his room stinks.
I don't have the heating on during the day unless it is snowing or someone is ill and not moving much. The radiator in my bedroom is off usually too.

I love the image of the old lady airing herself and all the duvets hanging out the windows WallyBanters

I do it too, much to my DH's chagrin - I can't stand over-hot rooms although I'm not averse to the heating being on - but that's his particular bugbear...

why do you think you are hte only one OP?
tis quite normal

If cooking then I also close the bedroom doors & open all the windows & light candles afterwards to neutralise the odours.

I don't understand why people dont air their houses more often especially if they have pets. I can't stand the smell of dogs particularly male dogs as they do pong a bit.

Another airer here too. Yesterday I aired the whole house by leaving the front door open for half an hour. Lovely fresh air pouring through the house made me smile

I don't air my bed, I do get up every morning open the bedroom windows and make the bed.

I open the kitchen window most evenings and the bathroom windows always open a crack.

The damp man told me 5 minutes a day of the windows wide open is all you need to get fresh air in and circulating. I usually shut them before the school.

I have storage heaters and opening the window in the morning doesn't effect the temp of house in the evening and I really feel the cold.

Some people are odd and like smelly stuffy houses.

I air the house everyday.

My husband moans about it being cold but is all the first to complain about any smells in houses.

He's at home today, I've open the patio doors he's already shut them. It would be a day when I decided to make a curry lat night so it really does need it. Annoying.

You've got me on my pet subject; I am a fresh air freak. I actually sleep most comfortably in the open air. I like the bedroom window open at night year-round and also the door left open in the absence of guests. I open windows wide 3 or 4 times a week and hang the quilts out of the window when I change the sheets.

As I am an early riser, I also usually get the living room windows open for a bit before anyone else gets up and starts whinging about the cold.

I have an irrational hatred of all these air fresheners and the like - what an obscene waste of resources and money!

Dipp I just do it for 5 minutes when its cold. All the warm air leaves in that time and is replaced with with cool dry air but the walls etc are still warm so it doesn't feel much cooler.

Yesterday I was airing with the heating on for half am how but that's because ds had been sick overnight in two different rooms and it took a long time to clear the smell. plus next door smoking practically under our window meant I had to wait longer.

Air fresheners are indeed grim. Perfuming over what...? Exactly?

Why not just open a window...?

I can't bear it if our bedroom window is closed overnight, makes me feel claustrophobic. MiL's house is super heated and "fragranced" with all manner of candles and air fresheners and I always have sinus trouble after staying.

Nothing nicer than a fresh breeze blowing through, open bedroom windows and downstairs windows daily and air the beds as I think it makes the bed feel cold fresher when I get in.

I turn off the heating, open the windows and air the beds too. It feels good, when I'm cleaning, to have a lot of fresh air coming in, and I never use air fresheners as they're not needed! I also have the bedroom window open all year round too.