NIL that odor!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

"Men can even wear a shirt three days!"



Also, dead animals, skunks, cauliflower (!!), safe for skin!

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[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Huh. Sort of an early Febreze. Only it sounds like it purported to do a lot more than Febreze...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I find that Febreze only adds a perfume stench to already stinky things. I once Febrezed a pair of sandals and wore them to work. By mid-day the Febreze stink was making me so sick that I went ut and bout a new pair of sandals and threw the stinky ones away.

I wonder if NIL was better?

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

That's too bad about Febreze. I can't use the aerosol room spray, myself. And I admit I'd like to know if Nil lived up to its mighty claims! If it were like Lysol, I couldn't use it. I'm allergic to whatever's the active ingredient in that stuff.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Is this the Nilodor you can buy now for animal smells?

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at their website and wondering if it's connected somehow...

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I wonder what was in it? I can't help but imagine it was some chemical we've since found out is deadly or something. :)

I found the phrase 'breaks training' regarding a toddler wetting the bed interesting. Don't ask me why though.

Household hint - if you want to get odor out of clothes so you can wear a shirt for 'three days' mix vodka and water in a spray bottle, then just spray the clothes. Totally works. Old theatre trick.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I've used rubbing alcohol in a pinch. Dabbed it on the pits of a shirt, hung the item up in front of a fan to dry, put it on. Works fine.

[kiwihunter8.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for that little dog :(

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit concerned about the baby. If Dad goes around for three days in the same shirt, what's to keep Mom from just spraying the diaper and slapping back on the kid?

I've done my fair share of cooking and made a few dishes I wasn't particularly proud of, but I can't say I have ever had "embarrassing" cooking odors. The embarrassing odors usually come after people eat the food! ;) I guess maybe if you burn everything you're showing everyone how incompetent you are in the kitchen, that would be embarrassing.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

It seems sort of weird, doesn't it? One thing I think this is tied up in is that not everybody had range hoods/extractor fans in this era, and so eliminating smells was more difficult. On top of that, I can't even tell you how many old cookbooks I've read where they counsel you about various methods to eliminate cooking smells. Reading between the lines there, lingering cooking smells seem to be tied up a bit with fears of poverty/living in close quarters. And there's also something about smelly food being offensive because the foods that leave a lingering odor are associated with immigrants/foreigners.

I think this is still basically true...it's still considered rude to heat up "smelly" food in an office microwave, or to eat it on a plane, because everyone has to smell it. And my mother was totally incensed when a realtor stopped by while our house was on the market and I was cooking something involving onions. I guess it's like imposing on others in a way.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, good points. Although there weren't vent fans, I tend to think of people opening windows more in pre-A/C days, but if it's the dead of winter and you live someplace really cold, it's probably not the best option.

As for the smelly office foods, I can think of times that has been an issue, but more with people eating at their desks than in the breakroom. On the other hand, I once worked at a place where they took out all the toaster ovens because someone left their food in their there to burn once too often and the office manager had had enough of that. Because of a few inconsiderate fools, nobody could use them, but it's that way with a lot of things.

When selling your house, you're supposed to bake cookies! I even saw somewhere where realtors used a spray that smelled like cookies baking. What a rip! What if your potential buyers ask if they can have a cookie and you have to tell them it's just a room fragrance? Now that would be embarrassing!

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of the room spray idea! The cookie baking when selling a house has definitely become A Thing. The funny thing is that though my mom was flustered about the onions at the time (this was in 1995), the people touring the house said "What smells so good?" They didn't make an offer, though, so maybe she was right!