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How do you make your house smell nice?

29 replies

LutinDeSapin · 16/12/2020 10:23

Mainly DS's room 🤣
I air the rooms every morning for at least 10 mins, sometimes after lunch too. Bedding is washed once a week. Wooden floors with a rug/carpet which is hoovered as and when Lego allows. No dirty laundry in the bedrooms.

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LutinDeSapin · 17/12/2020 12:34

He’s 11 and he doesn’t do any sport?
Ok, bad phrasing! Nothing that requires a kit. He does sport at school but PE kit stays there. Swimming - dried in bathroom. Anything else is in everyday clothes that go straight in wash.

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GGilbert · 17/12/2020 20:05

Strangely enough when eldest went to uni his uni room didn't smell.
We decorated his old room but didn't renew bedding etc - but it doesn't smell now even when he is home.
Sorry it's sounding like I have awful smelly sons - I don't - but the teen room thing has happened with all of them.
They all shower and use deo and pass the sniff test.
My friend with teen girls says their rooms smell too.
Pheramones ? Hormones?

00100001 · 17/12/2020 20:08

No dirty washing in his room either. It can stink.

Air for more than ten minutes! Mine are open most of the day. Even just an inch will do.

Air the bedding too. Eg. Pull duvet back/hang duvet over door.

Wrenna · 27/12/2020 20:01

Bicarbonate soda carpet freshener, sprinkle and leave as long as possible then Hoover up. Open windows and shut door. Is his room at the end of the house? Our ds room is, and it seems all the smelly smells end up there! It’s better now that he’s older (19), when he was about 10-12 it reeked!

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