To be offended about the plug-in comment?

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Last night I was forced to invited out with some people from work and it transpires one of my distant colleagues knows one of my good mum friends. When I was explaining how I knew this friend she said;
"Oh you're the one with hundreds of plug ins that give x the almighty headaches....hahahaha"

She spoke like it was some in joke but this is all new to me! I'm livid. I know it's not crime of the century to have plug ins but I'm angered at the fact she's obviously talking about me to others. Should I let on I know or secretly seethe or get rid of plug ins?? more plug ins and turn them up when she comes

I love them always have done candles wax melts reeds I like to be able to smell something in a room...mil came once and turned them all off I turned them back on....

I have a friend who has those spray every half hour things in every room of her house. They give me a banging headache and seem to linger in my nose for a couple of days afterwards!

My neighbours had plug ins. I struggled round there, the smell was overpowering. I used to look after their cats. Once, they went away for three weeks and turned them all off. The smell stayed in the house for the whole three weeks and I couldn't smell when her cat shat in protest of them leaving. Honestly, I smelt it towards the end when the plug ins became less strong and found a cat turd under the table.

I turn them off in MIL's house, well, the ones I can. She has one of those automatic spray ones in her kitchen, both DH and I have inhaled in just as we're about to eat, which was pretty grim. We always take the battery out of the one in the guest bathroom, even 6yo DD hates it.

But salem, if you're happy for your guests to have a thumping headache in your house, you knock yourself out. Or, you could be a goo host and pick up on others' cues?

Good host.

Plug ins are horrible (reed diffusers for me) but it's your house so do what you want! If you're using them in a shared office then you need to compromise though.

However, if it's a good friend they should politely ask you to turn them off while they're there as they make them feel ill. Certainly better than gossiping about something so boring but at least that's the worst thing they had to say about you!

Whether you like plug ins or not, it's a low blow to moan about a friend's house to others.
Does this mum friend get a headache from other fragrances too? ..perfume, candles? I hope she never walks into a Lush shop, her head would probably explode .

I suspect if you got rid of the plug in, she might find something else to bitch about..

I'm not a fan of any artificial home fragrance. A clean house generally shouldn't smell particularly bad.

'Livid' seems a bit of an over - reaction. It's really not important. Don't stress over it.

Your friend has obviously been talking about your use of plug ins which is not very nice & not very tactful of distant colleague to bring it up, but they are terrible things & cause toxic chemicals in the house. One of the chemicals they use breaks down into formaldehyde which is a carcinogen.

'filthy addiction to plug ins'

Brilliant.

They're awful. Your friend shouldn't have said anything to a third party but she was probably explaining why she was green and listless just after being at yours.

Look on the bright side - she must really like you, if she's round at yours all the time anyway.

I can't be in a house with them, they make me feel ill. If people with animals get them, I feel incredibly sorry for the animals, with their very sensitives senses of smell. (I also think that people with animals should just face the fact that animals make your house smell. I wouldn't have a pet, partly for that reason, but at someone else's house I would far rather a bit of a doggy whiff than the stench of chemicals being electronically wafted into the inescapable air)

I cannot understand how people how like these things, can't understand that many people can't bear them, and get all outraged about it.

Plug ins are evil. I bought some for DCs' rooms when they turned teenagers and they made me almost throw up, even on the lowest setting. And set off headaches. Poison.
Have soy wax scented candles or reed diffusers. I love a house that smells good, but they are not the answer.

Plug ins are grim. Those chemical smells, as others have said, give me an awful headache. Why are people obsessed with air fresheners anyway? Clean houses don't smell bad.

Another hater of smelly stuff to make your home smell 'good'. Plug ins, scented candles, incense, spray - all of it gives me headaches (and yes, I would never go in a Lush shop...). I don't understand the need for them either. My home smells fresh and lovely. Because it is clean and the windows get opened. I wash bedding weekly, sofa cover etc monthly and just generally don't let stuff get minging...

I got a rather naice red diffuser from Laura Ashley today....looks nicer than a plug in and smells lovely too!

What's an aromatherapy diffuser may I ask. Where do I get one?? I want one!! And some recommendations of smells would t go a miss....... I feel a bit anxious about waving goodbye to my plugins.

I hate plug ins but she was really rude!

I have to say your post made me laugh OP... I have a friend who has every type of plug in imaginable. I am not joking when I say that I can smell her house from he path outside! I keep thinking it's bushes or shrubs or flowers, but no, it's the ruddy plug ins! You can imagine how strong her house is inside! We tease her about it... perhaps that's just what your colleagues were doing?

I can thoroughly recommend one of these... here. (there are cheaper ones available, just look for aroma diffuser) You use essential oils and the smell is much more subtle and non artificial than the bloody awful plug ins. I don't use it much, only really when I'm cooking smelly food.

And may I ask, should I not be using all the smelly zoflora cleaning type products? God everything I thought I know was a fucking lie.

The combo of wet dog, farts and chemical plug-in smell would have me throwing up in your living room!

Don't they have horrible carcinogens in them too?

Can't stand chemical smells in the house and that includes plug-ins, air fresheners, diffusers, scented candles... all are bleh! I do tend to get headaches from strong perfume too, so not sure if I have a sensitive nose or something. Generally if a house has been cleaned, it smells ok. My parents had dogs and their house usually smelled of doggy-smell but it wasn't an unclean smell, and they didn't feel the need to hide it under chemicals. Sorry, not sure what alternatives there are. Perhaps coffee or fresh bread aromas?

Reed diffusers- are they sticks in oil??

I probably read it here but another tip is to rub essential oil over your light bulbs then they release the fragrance as the bulb heats up, not tried it myself but might do when lights need to start being switched on.