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?

The bathroom windows are open a crack all day unless there is rain com

coming in (bloody phone)

Love Titanic lady airing herself! I think I am on the way to doing this!

I'm an airer and also hate heating being on all day every day. It's just so unhealthy. Nothing worse than going to someone's house where the heating is on from September till April and if they have dogs as well... urghhhh. Don't get me started on Febreze and air fresheners. Revolting smells trying to mask other revolting smells.

Apart from airing rooms I use an ioniser type thing that you can add a couple of drops of essential oils (expensive natural ones not cheap artificial ones) and I do use that occasionally but not to cover up horrible doggy stuffy smells, but to aid my breathing and/or sleeping.

People seem to moan about all the coughs and colds they get... it's because they never ever get any fresh air in their houses... oh god I've morphed into my mother

Yes I air upstairs, and I air the beds too, nice and fresh.

I open all the windows, front & back doors and let the air circulate. I hate stuffy houses and those horrible plugin things.

DrankSangria: WRT the science of the airing, it's probabky the ultraviolet in the sunlight they're after, to kill... dust mites (I think), not bedbugs. Bedbugs ought to be much rarer than dust mites!

I air beds and duvets by draping the duvets, skin side uppermost, over the door of each bedroom. It keeps the door open and air circulating, too!

I do when it's not too cold, but at the moment the heating goes on first thing and I can't justify the loss of heat and money.

I do turn the beds down though and have a squirt with Neutradol. When we came home after spending Christmas with the PIL the house smelt of stale smoke even though we've lived here nearly 5 years so if I can't open the windows I spray.

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I love airing the house but don't get to do it every day because we're out all day.

Can't air it by leaving the front door open though, even if I'm home. That would be ill-advised in the area I live in.

Can't stand the stink of air fresheners. Who the hell buys them? Read somewhere they are associated with increased incidence of ear infections.

Bugger...

Our windows tend to always be open when it isn't raining, even if it's cold.

It's been raining here and I've just come up to open all the bedroom windows now it's stopped.

I open the windows before breakfast is even countenanced. Up, curtains open and windows flung wide. Currently have the bathroom and bedroom windows open.

Why wouldn't you do this?

I also line dry washing, wash up using my own fair hands and have a record player. The modern world is just passing me by...

I'm another one. When I'm doing my cleaning at the weekend I open all the windows to get a god through flow of air, we live in a newish house, quite spacious but even so it does get rid of any lingering dog/boy/ cooking smells and just makes the whole place lovely.

totally.

who want to live in a sealed box with their own detritus?

I was always brought up to air my bed and DM would make it later.

Now I just fold it back and make it when I go to bed.

DDs just do quilt heaps that air some days and not others.

Bathroom window gets opened, otherwise just doors to let air circulate. Most if our windows are the stupid open outwards let all the expensively heated hot air out sort, they don't do let a gentle breeze in like nice fan lights.

Always do, my mother Aiways does too.

I do this after the beds are made in the morning.

hellonHeels what's that about air freshner?

I do it, but my other half hates it and goes around closing them after me It's much better for the house if you do it - not just to get rid of smells, etc, but for the good of the building - due to condensation, letting the house 'breath' (as my nan used to say).

Upstairs windows all open here and bed duvets thrown back. Can't imagine not doing it tbh.

I often open the downstairs ones for a little while esp if I've been cooking onions or similar.

In summer all the windows are open all of the time and I just love that through breeze that brings with it the waft of grass cuttings and just ooooh lovely spring/summer smells .

MIL has zillions of those plug in bastards, you go into her bathroom and the bloody thing sets off a squirt of some foul chemical straight into your face . Not Amused.

I air the house as well, can't stand the smell of air fresheners.

I do love a nice candle though .

Yes Switzerland is where I am too!

A nation of airers! You'd be welcomed warmly (or freshly) into the fold here, OP!

I have an Eco system using recycled heat from underfloor heating and vents blowing through each floor of the house. It's only a 30 minute blast of outside air in Winter to freshen up the place.

I've had the windows open at -20 for a bit. You can't beat the smell of icy fresh Swiss mountain air - there's no way Febreze could even attempt to replicate it.

I find summer harder - the trick to keeping the house cool when it's 35+ is to keep the windows closed and shutters down all day so the house in darkness. Then at night you open every window to circulate the cool air through. Then you get eaten alive in bed.

There was an article in the New Scientist recently about how fresh air really does kill microbes. So airing your house is actually good for you, and Florence Nightingale was right.

I sleep with the window open every night and open the rest of the windows first thing for at least an hour.

Agree that you can tell houses which aren't aired. They have a stuffy, kind of sweetish smell which is quite unpleasant especially if you have pregnant supernose.

Yes I air the house each day.