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?

Ahhh air fresher, someone at work got one of those motion sensor thingys that sprays a lad of smelly (fresh linen I believe) crap in your face every time one of us walks past. The same person that likes the window shut and the temp at 25 billion degrees.

I am early 30s I air rooms and beds!

I open windows when I'm cleaning regardless of the weather & try to open the shower room window after every shower to let out the steam. DH prefers the windows to be shut in the winter "he gets cold" & in the summer "he gets hay fever" but even he will let out the steam.

I'm not supposed to keep windows and doors open, due to our heating system. On the plus side, it kinds of constantly airs the house using pre-warmed fresh air.

I was doing some major airing last year and decided to put the rubbish out quickly. The draught from the window pulled the front door shutting baby DD inside!

Luckily we had a dodgy neighbour upstairs who broke in for me.

I am now a bit wary of airing and putting out rubbish.

I am in Switzerland, with German in laws. I can tell you all the Germans and Swiss people I have met are OBSESSED with airing rooms.

Our neighbours wanted us to go and air their house twice daily while they were away for 2 weeks holiday. And airing after breakfast, lunch and dinner seems to be a thing too. Unless it means someone gets some of the fresh air directly on them, which will apparently make them instantly deathly ill...

My mil does this, but not just for half an hour. Then she moans its too cold and turns the stat up. Makes no sense to me. I open windows in summer but too cold in my house in winter

Ahhhhh. Like the Italians Schok. Air is good for beds....but utterly fatal for humans. "aaaaargh! You'll get a hit of air!!!!"

It's frosty here this morning and I have ALL the windows open.

They will gradually get shut over the next couple of hours but the bedrooms ones will stay open til dusk.

Our house has farty dogs/litter trays and elderly cats in it - it would STINK if I didn't open the windows!

Daily airier her as well.

HATE airfreshener smells.

I alway air the rooms. Bathroom window is always open on the latch after showers gets open wide while we get ready.

Windows in the bedrooms are open all day all year.

In summer they are wide open with the doors wedged open when I'm at home

I also love washing outside

Vanilla scented air fresheners & candles are vomit inducing.

I do it too it helps keep condensation at bay aswell

Nothing smells musty in the house the germs don't like fresh air either

Also air bedrooms and downstairs regularly, along with beds. Oh and make sure I leave the large cupboard doors open where I store the clean sheets and towels so that all gets aired or I get paranoid that it smells ify!

Your completely normal op

Compulsive rooms and bed airer here too. Getting into a well aired bed is almost as good as getting in one with fresh clean sheets on IMO.
I quite often have windows open a crack when it's raining too (that lovely summer rain especially) since I love the smell of rain in the countryside

I do only air if it is warm enough outside (though warm enough for me constitutes freezing for some anti-environmental hooked-on-heating suckers). Been that way since I had kids - don't want them to catch cold. Nothing beats the fresh smell of plain ol' fresh air, even in a poisoned inner city.

There was a time when I couldn't stay in a room which didn't have a window open, regardless of temperature, day or night. I'm getting old now though .

I'm an airer. A habit I adopted after living in Switzerland.

A couple of Christmases ago we were at my in laws and for the whole week the heating was on full and never a window open. I could barely breathe. The air felt thick and poisonous! No wonder everyone was getting sick. But of course the olds blamers it on the bizarre behaviour of going outside in the cold (wasn't even properly cold, +5 or something) noir on a whole bunch of people breathing in eath others herms for a week. Gag.

I am also a diligent room-airer, and when an advert for air "fresheners" comes on the TV my H and I both yell "open the bloody window".

I air beds and rooms.

I do it ! Feels clean and fresh

I air rooms as well. I can't understand why people use those horrible artificial room fresheners!

You can always smell houses which aren't aired 'taps nose'.

I leave the landing window open all day, other upstairs windows are opened first thing and then left on the latch when I leave the house. Bedroom windows stay open all night unless it's artic temps. I HATE air fresheners.

I do! And air the beds.

I think you need to have fresh air in to make your heating work efficiently - otherwise it's just reheating stale humid air & takes more to keep it warm? (I read that on MN once but it makes sense to me)

The bedroom window is open all night, every night unless the temperature is significantly below freezing here. Last night it was only 0deg so the window was open. I detest air 'fresheners', complete misnomer that is to my mind! Windows open a lot, doors too if I'm within sight of them and especially when doing cleaning/hoovering type things.

When we moved to this house neither the bathroom nor the loo had windows that opened. I think that was the first thing we changed, horrible it was until we got it sorted.

I do! Every morning, all rooms, minimum of 30 minutes, regardless of temperature. We live in an old house but don't have condensation (the walls were practically crawling when we moved in) can't stand air freshener or sented candles. My parents live in a mega insulated hermetically sealed Eco-house & I can't stand it - I have to open windows when we stay with them.