Question of the Day, Aug. 29th

larussa

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We all like our home to smell nice especially when cooking foods that tend to stick around so my question today is:

What kind of air freshener do you use in your home.

I usually have the bottles with the sticks inside soaking in a liquid fragrance.



I also have some of those bottles with sticks inside but has no liquid. This is something new I found on HSN and I love it since there is no liquid to spill:



The sticks do all the work and I donâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t have to worry about spillage. Here is another example:



This is the same concept except they are shaped like balls rather than sticks, works very well also without any liquid.

I keep one of these air fresheners in the kitchen, in the powder room and here in the office where Autumnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s box is. I also have Febreze spray for use on furniture and curtains. What do you use to keep your home fresh smelling.
 

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The balls on the bottom look like cat toys.


Absolutely none!
Even our laundry detergent is unscented - other detergents have minimal or weak smells that don't linger. With the exception being the murphy's oil soap that I use on the wood floors, and I even rinse that so the smell isn't very strong.
I'm extremely bothered by anything scented and things like air fresheners will cause my DH to have an asthma attack.

My house usually smells like food or the scent of freshly topped off litter boxes (grainy corn smell) - or a bit of bleach if I've just been cleaning the bathrooms.
 

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scented candles. Also i use febreeze for the couches and I use arm and hammer scented baking soda on the bottom of the litter boxes (it helps with the smell) and I use a rug deodorizer when I vaccum and they are all pet friendy of course!
 

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I have plug in air fresheners and air freshener sprays, I have had those sticks with the liquid in before but they got spilt
I like the look of the ones without the liquid what are they called? I am very conscious about the way my house smells, not that it does smell (I don't think
but I do like it to smell nice. x
 

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I have scented candles, a plug-in and some sprays.

I have to be extremely careful with what scents I use because certain ones give me a bad headache. So I stick with the "lighter" ones.
 
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larussa

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Originally Posted by Ruthyb

I have plug in air fresheners and air freshener sprays, I have had those sticks with the liquid in before but they got spilt
I like the look of the ones without the liquid what are they called? I am very conscious about the way my house smells, not that it does smell (I don't think
but I do like it to smell nice. x
The sticks without the need for liquid are called Forever Fragrant and I found them on Home Shopping Network, Joy Mangano sells them. Do you have the channel HSN on your TV, if so that is where you willl find them. The fragrance I bought was Fresh Linen and another which I haven't used yet called Amber Vanilla.
 

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I use Black Cherry and Warm Apple Pie scented candles. I also have varying Febreeze scent stuff randomly placed thru out the house. I love smelly things and thankfully BF does too cuz theres nothing more fun than walking down the air freshener aisle smelling all the smelly stuff. LOL
 

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Fabreeze Noticables The pet odor remover smell. Its actually smells really good! And whenever B&BW has a wallflower sale I stock up on those! Right now our guest bedroom smells like rasberry lemonade but the others are empty. The bathroom smells like lavender
 

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I dont use any in all honesty i just open the windows and have the fresh air smell
that and in the winter you can smell christmas coming (yes i am a bit strange
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I have an Eden lamp.

http://www.clairdelune.ca/en/product...lorence-black/

You buy different scents for it and light it for about a minute. Then blow out the flame and put the cover on. It's safe for use with cats because the hot stone is covered and it doesn't break if it falls. My cats have knocked it off the desk onto the floor multiple times.

I also have 2 Glade sense and spray air fresheners.
 

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I don't use any air fresheners. I don't like breathing in all those chemicals. I keep the windows open during the summer and if needed, will open the windows in the winter too, to let some fresh air go through the house.
 

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I usually just use the bamboo sticks in oil, maybe a candle once in a rare while. I have a small sticks/oil thing in each of the three bathrooms and one big one on our mantle between the living room and kitchen.
 

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Originally Posted by LaRussa

The sticks without the need for liquid are called Forever Fragrant and I found them on Home Shopping Network, Joy Mangano sells them. Do you have the channel HSN on your TV, if so that is where you willl find them. The fragrance I bought was Fresh Linen and another which I haven't used yet called Amber Vanilla.
They got bad customer reviews on HSN.com

Surprisingly HSN.com decided to be fair and allow the bad reviews to remain. What a shock.

Had I not read the reviews I would've given this a try.
 
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