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?

Totally agree. Get out of bed, open curtains, open window, fold back bed to air.

Windows open wide first thing for about 20 minutes, then pushed to, so all windows open an inch or two until we go out. As soon as we get home get opened again, closed when I draw the curtains at dusk.

Downstairs outside doors open if small DCs out/at school, and especially if I'm cooking. Can't bear stale cooking smells.

I'm an airer cos I'm lazy...it makes the house smell clean without actually doing anything! And you can delay changing sheets for a few days more if a bed is well aired each day.

Cannot abide any artificial smells...gives me headache.

No you aren't alone. I love airing the rooms of a morning.

I air all bedrooms and the living room every morning for at least an hour. My dh does not quite understand why I open windows in winter. I have explained to him the importance of fresh air.

I also air all our beds in the mornings.

I have visited people who do not open their windows even in summer months and the smell of stale breath and bodies is awful. I suppose they do not notice.

I do this. I throw the quilts back and open the windows

Every day. I open all bedroom windows whilst I shower and get dressed. I open all downstairs windows for an hour every day too. I don't care how cold it is. I do it when everyone is dressed. Gets rid of the cooking smells from the day before etc.

I've lived in this house for 15 years and in some of the neighbouring houses I have never seen a window open, not even in summer! Madness!

Why wouldn't you get a lovely blast of fresh air in the house every day, Ben in winter? In fact winter air is lovely...crisp and clean smelling, and it warms up quickly. Why live in a stale fug of your own breath, sweat, farts and god-knows-what, heated up to furnace temperatures so that the germs can really breed? Yuk.

In the winter I air the bedrooms every day.

In the summer I air the whole house, all windows open, all doors propped open and do the whole duvets on the balcony thing.

For security reasons it is probably difficult when all adults in the house work full time.

I have viewed some beautiful looking homes and almost gagged, the air has been so stale and the beds have obviously not been changed for weeks/months whilst the owners stood around beautifully dressed and manicured. Not impressed.

It's a shame we have never taken to shutters in the UK: with shutters closed, you can leave windows open for air even in foul weather or when you are out.

Blergh, I hate the warm, fuggy, greasy "lived in" smell of an unaired house. I have windows in most rooms locked open a crack every day when I get up and they're only closed in the evening in winter. In the summer I just leave them open. Stops condensation and makes it pleasant and airy to be in the house.

I am an airer as well.
how else can you get the damp air out from breathing, cooking, washing, laundry... no wonder there are so many 'help, mould' threads in the winter.

I turn back beds and if it's not too perishing, crack the windows to air out all the stale nighttime 'emissions'.

but if you are not in the house all day, then there is no one sweating/breathing/farting, so you don't need to air as much.

when I lived in germany, my rental contract had an 'airing table' attached, giving guide how long and how oftn to air the place depending on how many people, how long they spend there, how the temperature outside is...

I air rooms as well. Drives DH batty as he thinks just because the windows have vents then thats enough.

It always makes me laugh when I walk down the road and ours is the only house that have windows open.

I assumed everyone did this. If I can open a window, then I will. I like fresh air in my house.

Bedrooms are aired every day, and we sleep with them open a bit anyway.

The back door is usually open unless it's very cold, we all like to feely airy here.

I hate the smell of an unaired house.

I do! I hate unaired stuffy rooms.

I also try to air laundry and duvet covers, but it's so hard in this horrible wet climate.

I air the bedroom and bathroom everyday unless its especially cold.

I think a lot of people think that airing rooms in winter means you let all the heat out but if you do it daily you dry out any dampness/condensation in the room which will actually help keep the house much warmer.

Also why buy air fresheners and breathe in chemicals when you can open a window for free?

YY to airing the room / house

We also a air the bed, cushions, duvets too - all helps clears the soul as my gran says.

Got to air the room!
Or else stinky overnight fartage/breath/stale smells.
And mould.

We always have the window open at night and I fling the windows open to air the place a few times a week. Also air bedding. I am aware that houses have smells and want ours to be fresh smelling unlike some I've been in to! Ynbu

Ooh, smoorikins, you have Mechanical Heat Recovery Ventilation! Pumps fresh, dry outside air in through a heat exchanger, picking up heat from the the outgoing warm, wet air.

I want .

I am also an Airer. My neighbour said she could tell i was a good housewife cos my windows were always open.

She was very very wrong, but I do like freshness.

My bed is rarely made cos I hurl the duvet back and the cat promptly goes to sleep on the duvet.

Unless we are away I have the large and small windows in our bedroom open all day and night. I can't sleep in a airless room and unaired adult bedrooms smell minging.
The rest of the house gets aired during the day.

I'm not technically an airer. Its too fucking cold atm to have 8 windows flung wide open upstairs, and I hate being cold. I do open my bedroom window open a crack most days for a bit in the morning, and all doors are left open. The house is quite old and takes an age to feel warm again. I crack the DDs windows open too, but not for long. It's way too cold for that nonsense. I don't have air freshners, they stink.
From spring onwards, most windows are open daily for a bit, so technically 'airing' the house.

I open the windows every morning no matter the season just to let it have a blow through - always have!

We'd have a lot of mould and damp otherwise I think. Plus it isn't nice stewing in a fusty house