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How to keep house with out smell ? How to keep house with out smell ?

Topic started by Kavitha (@ adsl-67-36-190-27.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net) on Tue Apr 22 17:02:54 .
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Hey frs can any one let me know how to keep our house with out the spicy smells...always our home smells when we enter in to the home after the outting. I found this in all my indian frs home. But in american houses i find fragrance smell. How is that? I shyed asking them this...pls any one help...

Kavi

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From: Harish Kumar (@ 203-195-203-203.now-india.net.in) on: Thu Feb 5 02:53:38 EST 2004

Stop Smelling !!!
From: Harish Kumar (@ 203-195-203-203.now-india.net.in) on: Thu Feb 5 02:55:20 EST 2004

The idea of daily bathing was copied by Europeans from Indians.Previously Europeans were not bathing at all.

We only taught the world how to bath.
From: Mrinalini (@ 219.65.184.152) on: Mon Feb 9 10:00:40 EST 2004

STOP IT!!!
We are all human beings, that is all that matters. It is who gives a helping hand, who joins us in our happiness AND sorrow, who matters.
INSAAN bano, is tarah to jaanvar bhi nahi karte hai.
Sharam aani chahiye.
Baas to chala jayega, bure shabd rehenge.
From: - (@ 219.65.184.152) on: Mon Feb 9 10:22:49 EST 2004

Dear Kavitha and anyone else who is interested,

It is carpets and curtains that hold the smell of spices. Remove your carpets, and put linoleum, wooden, stone, tile or marble flooring.
Use blinds instead of curtains.
Put some soda bicarb in your vacuum cleaner bag and at the bottom of your trash can.
Put used lemon halves in your fridge.
Use deodorants.
Use the fan in your clean cooker hood each time you cook. Putting an open saucer of vinegar helps.
Taking yogurt with each meal is good.
Take a teeny quarter pinch of magnesium sulphate with a glass of water every day.
From: Madhu (@ lan-202-144-61-145.maa.sify.net) on: Wed Feb 11 05:48:51 EST 2004

1. Properly ventilate the house

2. Use Room Fresheners or Agarbattis

3. Keep a piece of Charcoal in Fridge so that
your fridge is odourless.

4. Must have a Chimney in kitchen.

5. Do not keep dried fish at home.

6. Wear flowers, especially Jasmine. Wash your hair well.

7. Do not keep clothes for washing in a covered place or bucket. Keep them in a cane basket which has a lot of holes for air to get in. Otherwise the clothes will stink.

8. Do not keep wet clothes for a long time. Allow them to dry in the sun.

9. Do not drink alcohol in a closed room. If you want the room to be closed, open the windows the following morning or after drinking, so that the smell does not linger for long in the room.

10. Take bath daily. Ladies - if you are having your menstrual cycle, take bath twice a day.

11. Wearing clean, dry clothes.

12. Wiping yourself completely dry after taking bath and powdering yourself before wearing dry clothes.

13. After grinding garlic (which will give a very strong smell), clean the mixie or the grinding stone well, with lemon juice, to remove the odour. Needless to mention, keep the kitchen doors and windows open.
From: - (@ cpe00606773786f-cm014100006919.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Fri Feb 13 13:01:54 EST 2004

Indians can't afford to buy soap and shampoo cause they spend it all on curry that makes their houses and country and themseleves smell liek shit.
From: Mother Teresa (@ 219.65.195.177) on: Sat Feb 21 12:30:09 EST 2004

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There are starving people out there, perople with no hope of earning, people who die of sickness and disease and hunger, people struggling to get educated, HELP THEM!!!

Do something for other people! Just sitting in front of the computer and writing stupid things!

Get up and start helping! Move!!!
From: quake (@ 202.68.154.210) on: Sat Feb 21 18:42:17 EST 2004

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From: fridge (@ 62.80.59.251) on: Mon Feb 23 05:48:57 EST 2004

Lemon works well, use detergents with lemon or airfreshners with lemon scent,
Clean out your fridge regularily and store items in properly sealed containers.
Try to buy fresh produce or meat daily, try not to store this at home for too long, unless you freeze them

?? how does the ''coal in fridge thing work''??
From: aarthi (@ 206.70.243.251) on: Thu Feb 26 11:11:06 EST 2004

Has anyone tried Febreze? Is it good? And is it just to be sprayed on to the carpets?
From: ashley (@ c-24-4-98-236.client.comcast.net) on: Thu Feb 26 15:48:27 EST 2004

Some tips that work for me:
1. Put a freshly opened box of soda bicarb (baking soda) in your fridge. (follow the instructions on the box for time period for changing it etc). Your fridge will not smell.
2. In the bottom of your trash can (between the plastic liner and the can), and in the "under the sink cabinet" put a few pieces of the laundry fabric softener sheets. These make the smells disappear and you will have fresh smelling kitchen area. Also try this for your linen cupboards.
3. Fully ventilate your home atleast once a week. Open ALL windows - for cross ventilation for a couple of hours atleast. Opening one window does not CIRCULATE air. You may do this while you go out for a couple of hours if it is to cold.
4. Use the exhaust fan in the kitchen when cooking in containers that are open.
5. Light aromatherapy candles while cooking. (even the normal scented candles will do). This not only masks the cooked food smell, it also burns out the oil vapors in the air that are emitted during deep frying etc. So you won't see any deposits on your wall.
6. Collect fresh lemon peels and orange peels and once a week, run them through your kitchen sink's garbage disposal (insinkerator) and this will eliminate the bad odor from there as well as fill your kitchen with a fresh citrus smell.
7. Spray febreeze on furniture with fabric on them, curtains etc
8. You may use white vinegar to deodorize (see instructions on the bottle)
From: mistyblue729 (@ adsl-66-73-172-77.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net) on: Mon Mar 1 03:21:49 EST 2004

I am not trying to be rude, but I have indian neighbors in a highrise building. The smell of their food constantly leaks into my apartement and it makes me want to throw up. What can I do to eliminate this smell. I obviously can't ask them not to cook or eat what they like, but it is killing me. I have tried insence, candles, air freshener, everything. I don't know what to do.
From: mrinalini (@ 61.0.136.43) on: Fri Mar 5 08:35:58 EST 2004

Dear mistyblue,
What a pretty name! I am sorry that you are suffering from the smell of the Indian food. Normally it should not smell, all smells should dissipate.
There must be some porosity in the walls of the building, they may not be made of brick but thin plasterboard. They may be retaining the smell or allowing it to pass through.
Also the air ducts for central heating or airconditioning may be retaining the smell.
The neighbours must be suffering also as the stale smells linger.
When you have a meeting of all the apartment dwellers, you should mention this fact in a friendly way so that everyone cooperates and brainstorms to solve the problem.
See if the ducts, pipes, ventilating hoods and any rough wall surfaces can be cleaned well and cheaply.

Get your neighbours to have separate ventilating air ducts for central heating and airconditioning.
Split the costs, it will be worth it.

Then maintain an air freshening routine of spraying a solution of soda bicarbonate in the ducts.
They may be grinding up their leftovers in the sink waste-disposal, ask them to add vinegar or baking soda when they do that.
And of course smells are retained by carpets and curtains. Advise them to have tiled floors and blinds instead.
I do hope that your problem is solved.
From: frank (@ us-proxy.att.com) on: Wed Jul 28 08:27:21

I just moved into my new apt. Indians have lived there so u know what im needing to ask.
Is there a way to get the exhaust fans insides clean that is over the stove? Also, what is the best Degreaser? One more question, What is soda bicarbonate?

thank you
From: Abdulah Traswabba (@ cache1.wa.westnet.com.au) on: Sat Jul 31 07:12:54 EDT 2004

Make sure you do not urinate in the kitchen.
From: dont hate (@ pool-68-162-18-170.nwrk.east.verizon.net) on: Sun Aug 1 22:33:03 EDT 2004

all u freakin racists out there. Its not only indians witht the smell. White, blacks and hispanics even have some smell in there houses.
From: blue eyes (@ waproxyc15.msn.com) on: Mon Aug 2 11:03:00 EDT 2004

all races have there smells and it not only has to do with cleanliness..i know people who's houses r spotless yet they still smell...the only thing to be done about smells is to open the house and let some fresh air in to refresh the room and that will help with the stale smell..also febreze works wonders when used as directed.....try a little baking soda in the fridge, bathroom,trash cans, and even in the laudry hamper..this really works....i know i have 4 kids who bring all sorts of surprises home some of which stink to high heaven..so be patient guys ..and don't be racsist i've moved in behind lots of different races including my own and they all have a smell
From: Erica (@ adsl-68-75-181-121.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net) on: Thu Aug 26 17:00:23

Hi you should buy Glade scented oil plug-ins when you leave and come back the house will smell fresh febreze works great for odors on fabrics I'm not saying you smell but when people cook the smell of food sinks into fabrics. The Glade Plugins almost every american uses them I hate to come home and the house still smells like the spices of the food! just use Glade and Febreze.
Glade has different scents to choose from just pick the one you like best they sell Glade at Jewel or Walgreens near the candles. I hope this will help you with that mystery of the homes with good scents that you've been wondering about.
From: NoOdorsHere (@ 66-214-143-172.gln-eres.charterpipeline.net) on: Thu Aug 26 19:45:00 EDT 2004

Kavitha,
Air fresheners /glade/ candles can be too strong but they help temporarily. I prefer to leave windows open when i cook so there is *some* air circulation.
The reason many Americans' homes dont smell is because not many cook, and even if they do, their food has much less spice & flavorings than ours.

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