Fantastically smelly
2013
This week, we were challenged to list 10 Fantastic smells, but I decided to put my own little twist on the lovely Listicle topic and so I offer you:
10 Fantastically smelly smells:
1. A smelly diaper. This nose of mine can smell one coming a mile away. It doesn’t even have to be my own kid. I can walk into a room of toddlers, and detect the offender within minutes. It’s a gift.
2. That thing under the kitchen sink. I’m not sure what it is. I’ve cleaned out under the sink, I even took the damn pipes apart, but the smell is still there. I just have to live in denial otherwise it may make me insane.
3. My teenage son’s room. It’s fantastical in all the wrong ways. I’m just sayin’…
4. The cat boxes. Can you say ewwwww? Seriously, there is nothing worse. Thankfully, I have children old enough to scold when they get gross.
5. The thing in the refrigerator. You know how you when you open the fridge and something has suddenly become a science experiment, but you aren’t quite sure what it is? And you don’t really want to know, so you find what you are looking for quickly and close the door? It makes the smell go away and then you don’t have to think about it for a while.
6. When my kids don’t flush. Come ON people!! How freakin’ hard is it? The funny thing is when all the bathrooms are offensive and I have three kids dancing around about to pee their pants acting as if there is no choice but to find another toilet. They always act shocked when I suggest they merely flush the previous user’s toilet.
7. That thing in the laundry room. I can’t be the only one to walk into my laundry room and wonder what the hell smells? It’s the laundry room, for Pete’s sake. Shouldn’t it always smell clean?
8. Stuffed peppers. Sorry Mom, but just the memory of walking into our house when you were cooking them makes me ill.
9. The Doctor’s office. I’m not sure if it’s all the sanitizer or if illness has a smell, but I don’t like it.
10. The whole dang house. Maybe this list should really be called, “Stacey is not good at cleaning the house”, but sometimes, I swear the whole house stinks.
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I like your twist on the list! I have been known to bury things in the fridge from time to time – it’s so hard when things get stuffed in the back. Scary.
Kim@Co-Pilot Mom´s last [type] ..10 Fantastic Smells
there is always something dodgy in my house too. I have given up looking for it a while ago. It is bound to rot out one day….
Stasha´s last [type] ..Monday Listicles
Ooh, fun twist! I hate that doctor’s office smell!
Robin Jingjit´s last [type] ..Memories
A clean house made my list so we must be somewhat similar. lol
Colletta
Like the twist. What is that lurking under the sink? and litter boxes, cringe.
paul´s last [type] ..The Nose Knows
Fabreeze is a good friend of mine.
Wayne´s last [type] ..A Birthday-Monday Meme-apolooza Puh-shah
LOL to “that thing”. And we are the only ones to smell it too. You just made me think off the dentist office smell. Different for the docs office, is it the barf flavored floride? I don’t know but YUCK.
I can so relate to your thing under the kitchen sink and smelly house. Our house was built in 1938, and I swear that many old houses just have “that smell.” One time a rude kid–classmate of my oldest son–walked into our house and said, snootily, “Your house smells like penguins!”
That’s become a good joke in our family lore!
Sorry about the peppers, but I think you were the only one that hated them.
This is certainly a different twist to the list…
I agree, when I am in a doctor’s office…I try not to inhale…for more than just the scents I may encounter.
OMGoodness…I cannot stand the mystery nasty scent in a refrigerator….and it is even worse when it magically appears in the freezer…HOW is that even possible?
Yona´s last [type] ..10 Fantastic Smells
I have “that thing” too – it was in my linen closet and I sniffed every single towel and sheet in there and still couldn’t find where it was coming from. Now it’s gone – maybe it went to your house?
Dana´s last [type] ..Smells like Teen Spirit
I so hear you! I hate walking into my house some times because it is an instant reminder that something just doesn’t smell right.
And I don’t think it would matter how much I clean….because kids can be really tricky and sneaky with their smelly messes too.
Like…finding all the food they don’t like to eat dropped down the floor vent by the dining table. Can’t imagine why I didn’t think to look there….
Rorybore´s last [type] ..Monday Listicles: Smell Ya Later
Nice twist on that list! I’ll partly agree with the stuffed peppers if they are green ones, which I couldn’t stand as a kid. I convinced mum years ago to switch to red ones- much better!
I say ‘science experiment’ way too much these days when foraging through the fridges at home and work. Sometimes I wonder if a new civilization has been forged in that frigid little biodome. Then I realize that anything that is created on old tune fish wouldn’t be benevolent, so I feel less guilty emptying into the trash.
braintomahawk´s last [type] ..Monday Listicles – The Scents of Well-Being
Oh man! With 2 kids in diapers I swear my house smells like poop indefinitely! Well that and fabreez since I spray the garbage to try to get rid of the poop smell!
Audrey´s last [type] ..Monday Listicles – 10 Favorite Smells
I am with you on the smells! Except that stuffed pepper thing…..I love that!