Horrible smells

[Mommy2Kids]

I live in a paper mill town. DH works there. There are times when it's so strong I can smell it inside my house. DH says it's the smell of money. I guess I can't argue with that.

Growing up we drove past a sauerkraut factory - so gross. And of course, living in WI there were more than our fair share of stinky dairy farms.

I've also lived in a small town near chive fields. When they were harvesting it was nauseating.

But the worst smelling town had a fertilizer factory. The first morning I was there, I opened the door and almost threw up. Driving by it smelled like fermented french fries. I'm told that the men who work there would sit on an animal carcass to eat their lunch.

[Persnickety Polecat]

Ooooo, I have one gross smell story. Just one, really, but I have to share it. I kept smelling an odd odor in our basement, and I kept asking my husband if he smelled it. Nope, he didn't. I finally decided something either died in one of the window wells outside or the neighbors had a dead something on their side of our townhouse. But even though I hunted everywhere in the basement, the smell kept getting stronger and stronger, and I could NOT find a source. I was pouring Lysol down the drain and buying those plug-in things. The smell got stronger.

Finally, it was creeping up the stairs. My husband still couldn't smell it, but I was POSITIVE something was dead somewhere. By this time, since I knew it wasn't in MY basement, I'd decided our neighbor must have killed someone and was hiding the body over there (I've got an imagination -- get over it). I'm to the point of calling the landlord at this point. And then it happened ... I realized the smell was strongest in one very specific corner of my basement ... the freezer corner. Uh oh.

So over towards the freezer I go. Surely nothing had died under the freezer? I bend over, and whew! The stench was overpowering! But nothing was around the freezer. No, that smell was coming ... oh. my. god. It was coming FROM the freezer. Without thinking, I yanked the door open.

Blood. Juice. Swollen, unidentifiable rotting things. And even an exploded chicken. Did I mention this was July? In St. Louis? Even with central air, it gets HOT. And when a freezer dies, bad, bad, bad things happen. The smell swirled around my head and quickly infiltrated every corner of my home. I tore up the stairs, opened every window in our house, and ran back downstairs to empty the freezer while the boys got their dad who went out to get cleaning supplies.

I poured coffee grounds all over every single carpeted floor of the house, dumped multiple boxes of baking soda on the basement floor, and kept those windows open (AC set to like 55) with the fans pointing out, and candles in ever room for three days before my house was even close to normal-smelling again.

Now, I check my freezer at least every couple days. That exploded chicken still haunts my dreams ...

[Bob M]

Smell story. I was a pastor and we were having a group of students from Cedarville come do skits for our VBS. They were all going to have dinner at our house and stay overnight. My wife put some hamburger on to brown in a skillet and walked over to the church intending to come right back. As usual, someone engaged her in some conversation and she did not make it back for about an hour. The hamburger burned until it was as black as charcoal. the whole house was filled with smoke and all the smoke alarms were ringing when she got back. We opened all the windows, burned candles, incense, used sprays, cleaned carpets and still it was overpowering. And all those students had to stay in our home.

It took weeks to get that smell out. It was burned flesh. I still shudder when I remember it.

[pastor's wife]

My husband was a youth pastor at a small church in the midwest that was way out in the country surrounded by cornfields, except in one direction where there was a large pig farm.

It was NOT enjoyable having youth activities on the church property when the wind came blowing from a certain direction!

(Mommy2Kids, there was a small paper mill in a nearby town where I grew up; we drove by it on our way to church. I always thought it REEKED!)

[Papa Bear]

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[co_heir]

The Bible college I went to was up on a hill overlooking an interstate highway. Every week or so a car would hit a skunk out on the highway and the smell would waft its way up the hill. I hate the smell of skunk.

[notdrinkingthekoolaid]

What is it about nursery kids' diapers!? BLECH!!! I have 3 kids, so I'm no stranger to nasty diapers and changing them, but I have changed some of the nastiest diapers in the church nursery! EWW!

[Phatchick]

When our dryer died a couple of weeks ago there were some cotton/poly shirts smouldering in there. OMG, burning polyester created the most horrible acrid smoke and absolutely REEKS. I spent most of the last week burning Gonish #2 in the laundry room to help get rid of the stink.

[laurat99]

We had a skunk spray under the crawl space of one of our rental houses. I woke up from a dream about smelling skunk to smelling skunk. It took about a week to not smell skunk all the time.

Steel mills stink, but that means people are working.

Boy feet.

[elfdream]

Limburger cheese set out on a radiator... on purpose.

Guy on camp staff would take off his shoes and the aroma would fill the building. Husband was the camp director and had to tell him that if insisted on going around barefoot he MUST wash his feet right after removing his shoes. He did after that.