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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 341094" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A dish of vinegar in each room can work. It's supposed to only take a day, but it can take longer.</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 has "inherited" SIL2's car which SIL2's chain-smoking mother was driving around for ages. easy child 2/difficult child 2 is VERY fussy about smells, and used my advice about vinegar - she got a plastic takeaway food container and put in some vinegar and tissue paper to help soak up and disperse the vinegar. She kept this in the car (blu-taked to the dashboard) for a month or so. An occasional drop of lavender oil, ti-tree oil and/or eucalyptus oil worked wonders on slowly replacing the stale cigarette smells. She also cleaned down every possible surface because there was also residual ash.</p><p></p><p>Another option for the house - burn a scented candle or incense. In each room. And open the doors and windows (if the place is not too cold) to let it ventilate.</p><p></p><p>Put a few drops of essential oil (something astringent like citrus, lavender, eucalyptus, pine, not something perfum-ey like rose or jasmine) on the vacuum cleaner air filter. Or the dust bag. Then as you use the vacuum cleaner, it also deodorises the house.</p><p></p><p>If you MUST use something perfum-ey like rose, then use it with the astringent notes. Rose and lavender work well. Jasmine and orange is lovely. Jasmine and lime - fabulous. And very effective.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't use vanilla, it's too sweet. Use it to finish on, perhaps, but to kill the smell to begin with - I don't think it will work.</p><p></p><p>Also, carb soda is good for deodorising. </p><p></p><p>Do you have any bath bombs in the house? Look up a bath bomb recipe and make some bath bombs. Just making them (aim for jasmine and lime if you can) can deodorise the house. Maybe give this job to easy child - partly in atonement, and partly as a more pleasant task to go on with, a sort of semi-reward for caring about what she did and being up-front about it.</p><p></p><p>Another option - bake a cake. Or bake potatoes. My favourite baked potato recipe - get GOOD spuds in their skins. Scrub them clean. Prick the skins a little. Rub them with salt (use wet hands) and place them on a flat metal baking sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (or slightly hotter) until they smell done. The salt forms a white crust and the skin thickens to a crisp shell, with the potato inside cooked to perfection. Eat them split with butter or sour cream, with any filling or none.</p><p></p><p>But the smell of potatoes baking can do wonders for a house in need of smell rejuvenation.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 341094, member: 1991"] A dish of vinegar in each room can work. It's supposed to only take a day, but it can take longer. easy child 2/difficult child 2 has "inherited" SIL2's car which SIL2's chain-smoking mother was driving around for ages. easy child 2/difficult child 2 is VERY fussy about smells, and used my advice about vinegar - she got a plastic takeaway food container and put in some vinegar and tissue paper to help soak up and disperse the vinegar. She kept this in the car (blu-taked to the dashboard) for a month or so. An occasional drop of lavender oil, ti-tree oil and/or eucalyptus oil worked wonders on slowly replacing the stale cigarette smells. She also cleaned down every possible surface because there was also residual ash. Another option for the house - burn a scented candle or incense. In each room. And open the doors and windows (if the place is not too cold) to let it ventilate. Put a few drops of essential oil (something astringent like citrus, lavender, eucalyptus, pine, not something perfum-ey like rose or jasmine) on the vacuum cleaner air filter. Or the dust bag. Then as you use the vacuum cleaner, it also deodorises the house. If you MUST use something perfum-ey like rose, then use it with the astringent notes. Rose and lavender work well. Jasmine and orange is lovely. Jasmine and lime - fabulous. And very effective. I wouldn't use vanilla, it's too sweet. Use it to finish on, perhaps, but to kill the smell to begin with - I don't think it will work. Also, carb soda is good for deodorising. Do you have any bath bombs in the house? Look up a bath bomb recipe and make some bath bombs. Just making them (aim for jasmine and lime if you can) can deodorise the house. Maybe give this job to easy child - partly in atonement, and partly as a more pleasant task to go on with, a sort of semi-reward for caring about what she did and being up-front about it. Another option - bake a cake. Or bake potatoes. My favourite baked potato recipe - get GOOD spuds in their skins. Scrub them clean. Prick the skins a little. Rub them with salt (use wet hands) and place them on a flat metal baking sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (or slightly hotter) until they smell done. The salt forms a white crust and the skin thickens to a crisp shell, with the potato inside cooked to perfection. Eat them split with butter or sour cream, with any filling or none. But the smell of potatoes baking can do wonders for a house in need of smell rejuvenation. Marg [/QUOTE]
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