To wonder why any sane person, with a sense of smell..........

[lucyellensmumagain]

would spray air fresheners or have those plug in air freshener things in their house??

they actually STINK! and i dread to think what they are doing to the ozone layer, even the ones without an aeresol - nothing that smells that bad could be a good thing

Um, my fellow candle burners, you do realise that most candles release crap into the air too, doncha?

My MIL insists that anyone who takes a crap in one of her toilets sprays the room with some vile smelling chemical aerosol.

I try very hard not to need to go at her house because you come out of the toilet honking of said spray and not only do you smell vile but everybody knows that you have been shitting.

Poo combined with rank chemical smell is on a level with BO mixed with pungent deodorant.

yes, wrt candles, you need to ensure you buy soya candles & tealights. Otherwise, being in the same room as a regular tea light being burned has the equivalent impact on the body as smoking a cigarette.

tulpe - what do you mean????

tulpe, what do you mean??? horrified!

LEMA - that the toxins and crap given off by burning regular tealights has the same impact on the lungs as smoking a cigarette. I too was when I found out (twas an article in the Guardian ages ago). And ever since then I have only bought soy tea lights.

as will i from now on! bloody hell!!

Oh my goodness, me too!!

YANBU

I go round my MiL's house and turn off all her plug-ins when we visit. They make me feel sick.

If you don't want your toilet to smell of shit, dig a hole outside.

I hate the spray stuff, my sisters partner smokes but my sister doesnt like him smoking in the house. He does it and then sprays convinced he has hidden the smell. Obviously it just smells worse because now it smells of cigarettes AND cheap flower spray.

Minging stuff.
Oneo f my most hated things.
Nealry an entire section devoted to them in the supermarket near here.A true emblem of our decadent times, when an entire industry built on crap noone needs.

May I however announce that I have some excellent solid incense from Middle East (where parents live) including some myrrh?

wmmc - ginger is what you put up a horse's bum to make it look more lively when you are selling it - hence the expression to 'ginger up' something/someone.

If you remember your Pratchett, it was what Vimes did to the oxen pulling the siege weapons in Night Watch:

"Nothing much happened for some while...it takes a long time for anything to happen inside the head of an ox, but when it does, it happens extensively.
The moo started off low and rose slowly. It was a visceral sound that had rolled across the ancient tundra and told early man that here came dinner or death, and either way, it was pissed off...."

I suspect that if IncontinentiaBotox had used ginger instead of garlic, the results would have been even more amusing embarrassing...

am I correct in thinking that in the small print on air freshners it states do not let children breath the smell in or some such warning. I recall on one of those wifeswap progs that the man told the woman she was poisioning his children for using airpsray?

oooh Moondog - love myrrh essential oil. Tis excellent not only for aroma but also for healing cuts and generally poorly & stressed skin. DCs were totally bemused when the "frankincense and myrrh" discussed in nativity play were duly presented to them at home from my treatment room!

The aroma of Myrrh reminds me of Benylin!

I have a lavender bush in my garden, and every summer I pick a big bunche and tie it up round my house.

wolly, happen she was right!

coldtits - I read your post as 'tie it round my house' & thought 'wow, that must be a big bunch...'

I used to love both incense and essential oils for minimising the fags'n'farts smells in my old flat, but stopped using the things when I had DS. WHen he was little I used to favour the solid-gel types of air-freshener to combat that general nappy-and-sick smell but nowadays I don't bother so much.

Really Tuple?
I will dig them out tonight and give it a go.
HHow fab, a mother with myrrh in her medicine chest.

Beachcomber How would your mil prove that you had actually done a poo and not used the air freshener. Surely she wouldn't loiter around outside the loo door and confront you on the way out?

In your position I would just use the loo as normal, and either open the window if I felt necessary or just leave the room regardless.

Actually that reminded me I used to work in a residential home,and the official staff toilet was based within the laundry room.

The laundry lady was quite mad a bit odd and had really issues if anyone pooed in "her" loo. On occasion she would literally chase after people and confront them if she thought she could detect a smell.

On one occasion there was a small incident when the cook (who was quite feisty) did dare to do a poo in that loo.

The laundry lady was so furious that she complained in the staff meeting. We had a most ludicrous discussion about the smell being a health and safety issue.

Some people really do seem to worry unduly about smells caused by perfectly normal bodily functions.

That is mad Lolli.
(Although I must admit to being of view that one should poo in one's own loo whenever possible)

grim yanbu

i agree, lockets.

the smell of wet dog makes me vomit.

i hate those artificial air freshners, but IMO they are preferable to wet dog.