Anyone know what non-chemically thing will get the smell of stale farts and mustiness out of a room?


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Taken from the Confess... ANONYMOUSLY! thread.


"One time I was in a hurry for work and didn't have time to shower or find clean pants. I was afraid my butt would be stinky; mostly because it was stinky, so I wedged a few fabric softner sheets in my asscrack and pants. My farts smelled like a summer breeze."

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Get a couple of boxes of baking soda with the "flow through" package design (Arm & Hammer makes 'em), open the flappy bit, and place them around the room. Leave them for a few days, maybe a week. Once you get the room smelling less foul, maybe consider getting a scented candle or oil-warmer to keep the farts at bay.

New tip:

To keep your cat nice and fluffy always use plenty of Fabric softener.

Fabrics are what capture and hold smells the most.

Make sure your bedding is cleaned regularly, vacuum often (I'm assuming you have carpet) and don't let dirty laundry build up.

If you have curtains, think about cleaning them too.

Dust.

If there's a musty smell, there might be something damp in there. If you can't crack a window then get a fan to promote airflow.

And go into another room to fart.

And while it's a chemical option, Febreze really is a great product. It doesn't leave a lasting odor, and used regularly will keep fabrics from stinking. It works best if you start out with all clean fabrics--ie, wash EVERYTHING, and then add febreze to your weekly cleaning routine. Clean all fabrics at least every 6 months--I'm a tad fastidious, so 6 months wouldn't work for me, but it will be frequent enough to keep things from smelling musty or retaining odors.

Get a maid. Lots of fun, very easy.

Not really all that interesting but I learned the other day that peroxide will pull up coffee stains from a granite counter top.

Not that something tragic happened with my coffee maker which produced said stains and I had to try to get them out or anything...

I will jump on the vinegar bandwagon.

Use vinegar to wash moldy / musty clothes. Just add 1-1/2 to 2 cups vinegar to a regular wash cycle. There is no trace of mold (smell or visible mold) after the wash . There is no scent of vinegar after the wash either.

I discovered this when I found a box of some of my clothes that were left in my parents basement. There was a water leak no one had known about. I thought that all my clothes were ruined, they really wreaked of mold. I had some expensive sweaters and other nice clothes in there that I wanted to try and save. I scoured the internet and found the vinegar trick. It worked really well.

Swiffer sheets. Lifts dust off everything!

Endust for Electronics - TV's pc's,. stereo, everything nice and dust free

And my favorite - lemon oil. I use it on all my wood furniture. It replenishes moisture, smells great, and can make a dumpster dive piece look like new!

I'm going to have to try this on my washing machine and I'm surprised at myself for not thinking of vinegar, considering that I've tried it on most everything else.

Through very poor design, at the end of a cycle my washing machine doesn't empty completely, just enough to empty the accessible part of the drum.

If I don't put a load through for a few days it can develop an odour that sometimes lingers. I'll throw some vinegar in, see what that does.

Dryer sheets - very handy to pat down static on long hair on dry, dry days like today. Without one, I'd always look like I was holding a Van de Graaf generator!

Newspaper - put a bit of crumbled newspaper into your wet hiking boots and let them sit overnight. In the morning, the paper will be damp, but your boots will be dry, and dry boots make me happy :)

Thank you for that! I'm new to long hair, and I'm learning a lot (gatta shampoo differently, takes forever to dry, I have wavy hair apparently, and it gets tangled).

You can clean out your coffee maker with vinegar. It will also remove any water deposits, which will make your coffee taste better.

Pour about a cup or two of vinegar in your coffee maker and turn it on. When all the vinegar has run through, pour it out, and run an entire pot of water through. Run another pot of water through.

We did this every other week at the resort. I'm thinking you don't actually need to do it that often if you're not a resort.

The smell is strong...open a window.

This thread should really become the vinegar appreciation thread.

It really is great.

As a follow up to the above, it seems to have cured the musty smell in my washing machine that 10 sachets of stuff marketed as washing machine cleaner failed to get rid of.

Vinegar. It's great.

Actually, for wiping down windows and anything shiny, I'm a rubbing-alcohol worshipper (with paper, of course). Yep, I'm not on the vinegar bandwagon for that one.

You see, I learned the hard way that just because it's in a blue spray bottle does not mean it's window cleaner. So I had sprayed white stain remover all over my mirror and bathroom windows. Luckily, C2H5OH came to my rescue, and as a result my mirrors and faucets and windows all gleam!

another trick with the drier sheets: if you have a bagging vacuum, toss one on the side of it, if your have a canister vac, there should be an exhaust filter.

...another use for cofee filters, air wicks. scented oil, cologne, perfume (fuggin rockin movie), or, tie a satchel of cinnomin or whatever and toss it in the back of your closet.

when you eat an orange, carry the peel around in your pockets.... leave a piece of orange peel on a doorknob.