I’m going to visit my grandfather this weekend. His house smells like a skunk rolled around in some rotten cabbages, died, and got eaten and pooped out by a water buffalo. Thankfully I dont have to sleep there, but I do have to visit for a few hours, a couple days in a row. Last time, I wore a mask with mint toothpaste rubbed inside, which didn’t help at all.
Google is failing me; the only results I can find are how to get rid of a smell, and that’s just not possible here without a great deal of fire. So can anyone recommend how to live with a uniquely terrible smell for a few days?
Fun fact: Incense was historically used for funerary purposes. It hides the smell of decaying bodies. It’s also used in some churches, pilgrims can be very smelly. The egyptians used frankincense for mummification.
The smell is probably from the sewer btw. It’s possible the water level in one of the sinks or toilets is too low, but your grandfather doesn’t notice the smell anymore. It may be enough to simply run the taps a bit.
Or your grandpa murdered someone and hid them under the floorboards.
Yeah despite OP’s colourful description they didn’t really describe the smell. Does it smell like sewerage? Do as you suggested. Does it smell like something dead? Check for dead nice or rats? If it just smells like old man, open some windows or put on a load of laundry. Spoiled food - clean out the kitchen.
Or a patient escaped from your local mental hospital, killed your grandpa and assumed his identity. If that sounds stupid, don’t worry, it’s already a movie plot
That happened to my grandpa but he was okay.
Pick up a jar of vick’s vapo rub. Put some under your nose and in the mask if you wear one again.
This works fairly well and is inconspicuous. Go to the bathroom and reapply as needed.
In my experience with proper stinks, you wait and you’ll get used to it.
I once entered into a underground sewage treatement plant and the smell was almost physical. However after sometime your nose starts to become dissensitised to it.
Ditto when we had to work with SO2 gas (which smells like rotten eggs) in our Chemistry classes: pretty sickening to begin with, then eventually you get used to it (which was funny because we could hear the students from other, unrelated classes in the rooms nearby, complaining loudly about it whilst we didn’t really care about it anymore ;)).
Help your grandfather fix the smell problem.
Fart. You will smell it but it won’t be offensive.
Snort a bunch of drugs 1 or 2 days before you go lol. When I party on saturday I only start to smell things on wednesday
Fun fact: one of the symptoms I get of migraine is the inability to ignore smells. At all. Cat owners? Your house smells like ammonia. Cologne wearers? You still stink underneath the cloying odor. Cleaning products? Smell forever. I get to choose between smelling my own halitosis or the unbearable mint odor for hours on end.
Can you not just visit with him outside on some lawn chairs? Or does the outside smell as well?
Is it just his place or the entire retirement community place? It might be something property management is doing or not doing
Foam earplugs, shoved gently up your nose, but not so far you can’t get them back again, and a face mask to hide them.
not so far you can’t get them back again
New fear unlocked.
Get a mask, maybe a scented one.
You might wanna read the post again.
It asked how people deal with an unpleasant smell. A mask is going to be worn around your nose, no?
Well yeah, and it also explicitly said that a scented mask has already been tried and did not help.
That wasn’t there the first time.
