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Why when you open the windows to your house do all your fabrics smell like "outside"?

Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:53 am
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:53 am
Does anybody else know what I'm talking about? If you keep the windows open for a bit and then close them, your house smells like a smell I can't explain.

It doesn't necessarily stink, but it doesn't smell good either. It's just a distinct smell.

I did a little google searching and it seems like a mystery... apparently some people can smell it and many people can't.
Posted by SaturdayTraditions
Down Seven Bridges Rd
Member since Sep 2015
3284 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:53 am to
Because you are letting the outside in.
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57483 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:54 am to
Is this the legalize it thread?
Posted by LaBR4
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
50815 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:54 am to
exactly why I don't open windows or keep doors open
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65964 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:55 am to
you've gone nose blind
Posted by Slagathor
Makin' jokes about your teeny tiny
Member since Jul 2007
37811 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:55 am to
Is it the same scent you get when you hang things on a clothesline?

If so, it smells like pepper to me, and I hate it!
Posted by Zanzibaw
BR
Member since Jun 2016
2947 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:55 am to
When the outside becomes the inside, then the inside smells like the outside. That's just math.
Posted by bayourougebengal
Member since Mar 2008
7193 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:57 am to
When I was a kid our clothes were hung outside to dry and I never noticed a smell. Now it wouldn't be able to handle it.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20385 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:58 am to
Maybe you should move your trailer further away from the Bogalusa paper mill.
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5479 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 9:59 am to
The OT is struggling today
Posted by jakedel12
Dallas, Texas
Member since Nov 2006
1449 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:00 am to
quote:

Why when you open the windows to your house do all your fabrics smell like "outside"?


not sure if serious??
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
44102 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:01 am to
Pollen
Posted by Goldrush25
San Diego, CA
Member since Oct 2012
33794 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:01 am to
I don't get what you're asking. Are you wondering what smells are? It's essentially molecules from a larger mass.

If you leave a window open some of those molecules from the outside will end up inside.
Posted by Winston Cup
Dallas Cowboys Fan
Member since May 2016
65497 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:01 am to
sorry houston smells, i enjoy the fresh air in central tx


fresh air is better for sleep fwiw
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65964 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:02 am to
why, when clothes are washed in flowery detergent do they come out smelling like flowers?
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27410 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:07 am to
quote:

If so, it smells like pepper to me, and I hate it!



Without seeing a name, I knew a woman wrote this post
Posted by Slagathor
Makin' jokes about your teeny tiny
Member since Jul 2007
37811 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:30 am to
quote:

Rando


what does that even mean?

Women hate pepper, or women have a more sensitive sense of smell? Or damn women always be bitchin'?
Posted by Perrydawg
Middle Ga Area
Member since Jan 2014
4769 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:38 am to
if I open windows around the house this time of the year my house doesn't smell any different but everything will be yellow.
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
63015 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:53 am to
I'm struggling to understand your issue. If outside smells different than inside, letting outside in will change the smell of inside, including things that absorb smells, like fabric.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
8314 posts
Posted on 2/28/18 at 11:30 am to
back when I lived on a farm as a kid, we hung up lots of clothes outside. they always smelled weird to me.
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