Barely related, but…my fingertips can no longer handle all the punishment of cooking and cleaning I do. Plus I probably wash my hands more often than I should, I guess?
Anyway, sometimes I wear the kitchen gloves while doing a bunch of dishes, and my fingertips thank me for it! Slightly annoying. Worse than condoms? Who can say.
@UncleVinny I always find condoms to be too tight on my hands. Perhaps they should make them with thumb extensions, like mittens…but that might freak people out who insist condoms have one purpose.
@tinamarie1974 Go to a cheaper source like planttherapy.com and get the oils and make your own. Especially if it is for cleaning and not for internal consumption.
@tinamarie1974 do you know why that scent is called Thieves? My former boss had a Thieves diffuser and said it was a scent thieves used way back in the day to put on their upper lip when they were robbing graves. It would block the scent of the bodies they were digging up. Like a medieval Vicks vaporub.
@djslack@tinamarie1974 true but incomplete… The story also goes that they never got sick when using those oils even tho they robbed the sick and dying because that combination of oils has antiseptic properties. That’s why thieves items are cleaning products (or at least that’s how they started)
@djslack@ivannabc@tinamarie1974
FWIW, back during the recovery from the earthquake and subsequent deaths in Haiti they had a shortage of toothpaste.
It was all getting used to put on upper lips/in nostrils for the body recovery teams.
(Filed that info away and used it when I went to go pick up a “highly inflated” deceased dog in a ditch below our house one time… worked as advertised.)
Lemon in the winter, lavender in the summer. It also depends on what I’m cleaning. For clothes, I always use lavender. For floors, surfaces, and dishes, I have to use lemon.
Not exactly a cleaning product, but I really love those natural citrus spray air fresheners. They always smell so good and the scent sticks around for quite a while. Bleach smell nice in small amounts too when used to clean floors, etc.
@jerk_nugget@Weboh you’ll have to excuse my stupidity. I was out late with friends for a change and looking at the options, citrus didn’t mean anything to me. I actually love lemon scented stuff and I was surprised it wasn’t a choice.
I drive by an orange grove once a week and I love how it smells when the flowers are blooming.
depends on the season.
summer = orange
fall = apple
winter = pine
spring = lavender or lilac
already using the lavender though because i’m ready for spring to get here and i’m ready to open the windows and to not feel so dry and stuffy. but it’s boston so…that won’t be happening for awhile lol. usually i love hunkering down for a long winter but this year i’m over it early for some reason.
When I first read that I pictured in my head an enormous contraption with mirrors and angles and such…then I told myself, no, he must mean just a length of rope.
@dannybeans@therealjrn hard to believe that at one point California had trouble with HOAs and others that banned the use of clotheslines. Not very eco-conscious of the “land of nuts and berries”
@dannybeans@therealjrn@tinamarie1974 that sux.
Another reason that the Alabama motto of
“We Dare Defend Our Rights” makes me smile. Here is a list of ‘right to dry’ states.
@DennisG2014@tinamarie1974 I dropped a little piece of dry ice in the mop bucket of one of our hospital housekeeping staff one time. I then accused her of mixing chemicals and trying to kill us all… she couldn’t get away from it fast enough…
Sanni-rinse. Just last week I was pondering why they don’t make an air freshener with that scent
What does fire count as?
Fast orange
Barely related, but…my fingertips can no longer handle all the punishment of cooking and cleaning I do. Plus I probably wash my hands more often than I should, I guess?
Anyway, sometimes I wear the kitchen gloves while doing a bunch of dishes, and my fingertips thank me for it! Slightly annoying. Worse than condoms? Who can say.
@UncleVinny I always find condoms to be too tight on my hands. Perhaps they should make them with thumb extensions, like mittens…but that might freak people out who insist condoms have one purpose.
@Ambiverbal people are sooooo closed-minded
@UncleVinny You wear kitchen gloves in place of condoms?
@macromeh @UncleVinny
did you hear about the man with the 5 penises… his condom fit like a glove.
Gain, Febreze, or fresh linen.
Something that doesn’t smell.
Oh, OK, tequila.
Thieves cleanser. I received it from a friend once and it smells amazing. Very spicey (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc)
Too expensive to buy though
https://www.youngliving.com/en_US/products/thieves-household-cleaner
@tinamarie1974 Go to a cheaper source like planttherapy.com and get the oils and make your own. Especially if it is for cleaning and not for internal consumption.
@tinamarie1974 do you know why that scent is called Thieves? My former boss had a Thieves diffuser and said it was a scent thieves used way back in the day to put on their upper lip when they were robbing graves. It would block the scent of the bodies they were digging up. Like a medieval Vicks vaporub.
I was like cool story lady.
@djslack crazy and very interesting.
And here I thought it was called thieves because they rob their customers with those sky high prices.
@djslack @tinamarie1974 true but incomplete… The story also goes that they never got sick when using those oils even tho they robbed the sick and dying because that combination of oils has antiseptic properties. That’s why thieves items are cleaning products (or at least that’s how they started)
@djslack @ivannabc @tinamarie1974
FWIW, back during the recovery from the earthquake and subsequent deaths in Haiti they had a shortage of toothpaste.
It was all getting used to put on upper lips/in nostrils for the body recovery teams.
(Filed that info away and used it when I went to go pick up a “highly inflated” deceased dog in a ditch below our house one time… worked as advertised.)
WD 40. Smells good & a pretty good parts cleaner.
@daveinwarsh wd40 is great on kitchen dust-grease too.
@jerk_nugget … and a great starter-fluid for a small engine that won’t start easily.
@daveinwarsh @jerk_nugget it is also good for marks on linoleum floors.
Don’t forget Green Apple!
The smell of someone else doing it instead of me.
somehow I can’t associate sanitizer & passionfruit together. I just can’t.
Ammonia
Lemon. The fruit. Nothing against Jack Lemmon or Meadowlark Lemon, I’m just old school.
Pine reminds me of my mother cleaning the house. I can smell it now.
Kerosene
Fragrance Free pleeease
@moonhat Yes, yes, yes. No fragrance.
@pooflady do you get headaches too and/or hate all the horrible fragrances that seem to be on everything nowadays?
@moonhat @pooflady I can’t walk down those aisles at the grocery store. Insta-headache
@moonhat No headaches, get nauseous. I buy scent-free everything I can. Detergent, dryer sheets, deodorant, lotion.
Fabuloso
@ThatsHeadly
¡Que Fabuloso!
@TheGreatNico I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Water.
Bleach. Love that smell
@DavidChurchRN so do kitties
@DavidChurchRN @moonhat mine like it from afar - soon as they get close enough to get a real straight whiff of it they scatter … I like it, tho.
Diamond Brite dishwasher packets smell exactly like lemon meringue pie.
@djslack
Do not eat.
@djslack @PocketBrain Tide pods are a problem with kids due to the appearance…
@chienfou … and the delicious flavor.
@djslack
/eightball Is that true
hmmm, no one there I guess…
@chienfou it might be
/8ball do kids prefer the taste of Tide pods?
It is certain
You might have just ordered an unexpected shipment.
@djslack damn those syntax errors!
Some kind of piñacolada, tropical island stuff. Or vanilla… Vanilla can turn farts into cookies…
@xenophod
/giphy alchemy
Lemon in the winter, lavender in the summer. It also depends on what I’m cleaning. For clothes, I always use lavender. For floors, surfaces, and dishes, I have to use lemon.
Not exactly a cleaning product, but I really love those natural citrus spray air fresheners. They always smell so good and the scent sticks around for quite a while. Bleach smell nice in small amounts too when used to clean floors, etc.
good old-fashioned, original, smells like death, Lysol.
i want a disinfectant that smells like its killing things.
@earlyre that reminds me of my grandma
I prefer the smell of lemon.
Casemates says tar and asphalt are popular with oenophiles.
I live in Florida. There was really only one answer.
@Weboh The fresh smell of hurricane in the morning?
@rockblossom Once every 20 years, yes.
@Weboh as someone who lives in Florida… I don’t get it.
@RiotDemon i assumed they meant orange, but as someone who doesn’t live in florida i really don’t know for sure
@jerk_nugget @RiotDemon Yeah, citrus. You guys are a disgrace to your state.
@jerk_nugget @Weboh you’ll have to excuse my stupidity. I was out late with friends for a change and looking at the options, citrus didn’t mean anything to me. I actually love lemon scented stuff and I was surprised it wasn’t a choice.
I drive by an orange grove once a week and I love how it smells when the flowers are blooming.
depends on the season.
summer = orange
fall = apple
winter = pine
spring = lavender or lilac
already using the lavender though because i’m ready for spring to get here and i’m ready to open the windows and to not feel so dry and stuffy. but it’s boston so…that won’t be happening for awhile lol. usually i love hunkering down for a long winter but this year i’m over it early for some reason.
Freshly-bleached cotton or linen. Bonus points for line-dried.
@dannybeans mmm, pollen scented.
@dannybeans @therealjrn nothing like a 50ft solar clothes dryer to make the sheets smell AMAZING…
@dannybeans @chienfou
When I first read that I pictured in my head an enormous contraption with mirrors and angles and such…then I told myself, no, he must mean just a length of rope.
Ha ha.
/Why yes, I’m a city boy, why do you ask?
@dannybeans @therealjrn hard to believe that at one point California had trouble with HOAs and others that banned the use of clotheslines. Not very eco-conscious of the “land of nuts and berries”
@chienfou @dannybeans @therealjrn believe it or not my HOA does not allow them in addition to a bunch of other things.
@chienfou @dannybeans @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 because who wants to look at people’s laundry like a bunch of plebes? Bad for the property values, amirite?
@dannybeans @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 that sux.
Another reason that the Alabama motto of
“We Dare Defend Our Rights” makes me smile.
Here is a list of ‘right to dry’ states.
@dannybeans @djslack @therealjrn @tinamarie1974
your rights to my property use end at the property line…
@chienfou I totally agree. One of my top criteria when we bought our house was No HOA.
Also, go Louisiana!
I love the smell of bleach and vinegar mixed together…
…just kidding!
DO NOT try this, you will die. Seriously.
@DennisG2014 I was wondering if you were going to tell anyone
@DennisG2014 @tinamarie1974 I dropped a little piece of dry ice in the mop bucket of one of our hospital housekeeping staff one time. I then accused her of mixing chemicals and trying to kill us all… she couldn’t get away from it fast enough…
@DennisG2014 @tinamarie1974 ditto for mixing bleach and ammonia
@chienfou @DennisG2014 @tinamarie1974 Or ammonia and iodine. (Aaaaand now I’m on a watchlist.)
@dannybeans
Lemon, sage, jasmine, vanilla, lilac, lavender and soapy. And grassy. Not all at once, of course.
Did you know that lovely smell of freshly cut grass is the result of the plants sending out panicky “we’re all gonna die!” pheromones?
@stolicat seriously? Oh that’s interesting. I feel bad now for enjoying that smell.
@moonhat seems to be true, in a plant-like way:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140922145805.htm
“Apparently”, they also scream :
http://whataplantknows.blogspot.com/2012/04/screaming-plants-mean-no-more-fairways.html
Bore solvent. Smells like artificial banana candy.