to LTB?.. FISH EMERGENCY!

[OhGodHelpUsAll]

Now I apologise for the dramatic title but you could not make this shit up!

For absolute weeks there has been a horrible smell in the living room. I have not been able to locate the source but thought it was from the couch. Checked all down the sides, nothing there. Tonight I smelt the couch. Vile smell. I decided to wash it through, pulled all the cushions off.

Just about wedged right into the couch.. a piece of fucking soggy fish in a sandwich bag. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. I've been on the case to DP... apparently 'D'P had a toothache weeks ago and sat on the couch because he couldn't sleep with various frozen items from the freezer to ease the pain. He's only gone and fell asleep with the fish in the bag and it's slipped down the sofa clearly.

I can smell it right up my nose still even though i've washed the couch. What on earth do I do? With the smell and the bloody useless man. will this smell ever leave? :(

@OhGodHelpUsAll

Slap him with a fish in a bag then LTB - joking obvs ha!

Baking soda is good for smells - maybe sprinkle it all over the couch overnight then hoover it up? I did then when my dd was sick over the interior of the car and I could smell it afterwards - worked a treat

It is literally like 17 animals have pitched up and died in my living room.

Make him deal with the smell. He caused it.

Thank God I'm not alone. I did something similar when DW and I first got together. She was working away and I camped out in our new flat by myself for about 6 weeks with just a mattress to sleep on. When DW arrived to join me, she noticed strong fish smell. I'd put down a pack of fish fingers in one of the unoccupied room when I got home late one night (drink may have been involved), then gone to bed and forgotten about them. It took a week of all the windows being left open to clear the stink.

I once left an unwrapped fish on the kitchen counter and went away for a week's holiday. In July. I have completely repressed all memories of my return.

Oi you lot, you aren't supposed to be on his side!

Tell him clean up his shite, ffs.

Eeeewwww!

LTB immediately! Joking obvs... though I'd be milking it for all its worth

I have a freezer in a nook under my stairs. Really bad smell last summer. Looked and looked could not find anything. Then moved a box one day- a now defrosted, rotten bag of salmon I found.......

Oh sorry, yeah LTB..... lol

I have been told that you should cut an onion in half and leave it out in the room. Apparently it draws in the smell. No idea if it works but may be worth a try.

He would be dead to me.

He needs to buy you a new sofa.
This will be paid for by him loosing his treats - the gym? Going down the pub? Wine? A hobby that costs? Smoking?
Whatever it is he has to pay for his utter stupidity with loosing a privilege.
If he won’t buy you a new sofa then you can LTB.
Or cook him only fish for ever.

Hilarious!!! The thought of him sleeping on the couch surrounded by frozen food is cracking me up! LTB 🤣🤣

I came back from a long holiday and walked into my nice clean kitchen and the most vomit inducing smell. I scrubbed the floors, thinking my oldest had left dog pee on it, stripped the throws off the sofas and put two loads of them in the wash, but it still stank. Gave up and went to bed.

Got up the next morning, down to the still disgusting kitchen and moved the toaster to make some breakfast (which was going to be eaten in the sitting room) to find a bowl of dog food I had forgotten to lift. It was FULL of dozens of maggots. I reckon if I’d been home any later I would have come home to a house full of flies! [sick]

Bicarb and air the house out make sure you shower and blow your nose to get rid of lingering smell around you

He would be sleeping with the fishes if it was my house

Activated charcoal in bowls around the room along with a good airing? I know it works in shoes, not sure how it works in a larger space.

Professional cleaning of the sofa, but no guarantee that'll work. Sometimes they just can't get the chemicals deep enough into the cushion stuffing. Look for a company that does crime scene cleaning. My sister used one to get rid of pee smell in the floor boards of a house she bought. It was pricy, but cheaper than replacing a solid oak floor.

This is bloody hilarious I'm sorry 😂
I would definitely be making him treat you to a new sofa!

Vinegar works really well to get smells out of stuff, just use a sponge to soak the sofa with vinegar and water.

The vinegar smells disappears fairly quickly afterwards.

BTW, OhGodHelpUsAll's OH this is your job, good luck, you'll need it!

As usual, Monty Python has a suitable response. OP, you can be John Cleese in this case.

1001 spray cleans the fuck out of stuff. And febreeze is your friend. And nag champa joss sticks. And a new sofa. And a new OH.

We buy big boxes of Felix cat food pouches.
There was a disturbing whiff in the cupboard but couldn’t work it out.
Went on holiday leaving mum to cat sit. 2 days into holiday she rang to say was feeding the cat and nearly had to be hospitalised after opening a particular pouch.
It was bad enough inside the packet 🤢

My dog ate fish pie, then threw it up on the sofa 🤢. Worst smell ever.

Ooh Cherry that’s bad.
Anyone remember a line from The Simpsons when Apu says
“Oh my god! If a dead fish and a homeless person had a baby and the baby puked and a dog ate the puke, this smells like the rear end of that dog”