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Posted: Jan 17 2009 06:55 pm

But there is not a trace of vomit anywhere to be found on it. In fact, I haven't even thrown up in like a year. It's fresh out of the freaking laundry! You ever smell something that wasn't there? I had a pair of pants once that smelled like Jiff Peanut Butter, no matter how many times I washed them, different detergent, even those fruity dryer sheets, still Jiffy. Confused

Posted: Jan 17 2009 07:02 pm

Okay then..?

Posted: Jan 17 2009 07:04 pm

I think you need a new washer.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 08:05 pm

Crap I didn't even think about that, I bet one of my douche bag friends puked in my washing machine and never told me. Mad

Posted: Jan 17 2009 08:11 pm

Blackout wrote:

Crap I didn't even think about that, I bet one of my douche bag friends puked in my washing machine and never told me. Mad

sounds feasible

Joined: Jun 20 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 802

Well when you find a bunch of salsa and tortilla chips in your lint tray, you just let us know, k?

Posted: Jan 17 2009 09:05 pm

I once pooped on a car's windshield and then subsequently took said driver's cigar and pooped on one end and pissed on the other. AND THEN HE SMOKED IT. It was fucking epic.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 11:07 pm

I was sitting at the kitchen table the other day and I thought my hands smelled like vomit. I washed them like ten times and I still smelled vomit. I think it was the sink or something.

Posted: Jan 18 2009 05:38 am

My washer is in my kitchen because some methed out moron designed the place, and I do remember a night where my room mate couldn't handle his mushrooms and puked into the sink next to the washer, bastard ruined my toothbrush. I'm gonna sue the asshole for a new washer if I find any crud in it, Judge Judy here we come!

Posted: Jan 18 2009 11:11 am

A few years ago before I bought my house when I was renting a town house I bought a used washer and dryer. I would say to do to the washer what I did. I scrubbed as much of the inside out as I could reach, using Lysol with Bleach tub and tile cleaner. Then I ran about 2 or 3 loads, no clothes, with detergent and bleach. Also, new hoses, including the drain hose. It fixed mine up.

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Did you take the lint out of the dryer?

Posted: Jan 18 2009 03:03 pm

You could try Febreeze, or an equivilant product. They make stuff just for laundry. I've never had to get out the smell of vomit, but I worked on a ranch for a little over a year, and came home smelling like the shit of various livestock more often than not. Febreeze always seemed to get the worst smells out pretty well. Stains are another story, but at least I can still wear those clothes around the house without gagging.

Posted: Jan 18 2009 09:01 pm

In my personal experience, any smell can be fixed with a combination of Essence Axe and Pine Oust.

Posted: Oct 23 2012 09:27 am

It happens to me too, now and then. A couple of weeks ago i started to smell curry while sitting in my room. And it's impossible that anything in my room could have that smell. Well i guess the human senses are sometimes very sensitive, so that you smell, hear or see things you would never expect to.

Posted: Oct 23 2012 10:07 am

...Did this thread get necroed?

Ah fuck it.

I got a Sonic t-shirt as a gift from my GF a few days ago, and since her house smells like cigarette smoke, due to her parents' smoking habits, the shirt had a hint of tobacco smell (the shirt had been staying in her house for some time before eventually being sent out). Not like it really mattered to me, I still loved it, though after a few days of spraying cologne on it and wearing it constantly, the tobacco smell gradually faded away and my own scent just kinda merged with the shirt.

There you go.

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I think Ear didn't notice that a bot necromaced it, oh well

I had a pair of jeans that always smelled like book matches, and I loved it.

Joined: Oct 05 2012 Location: UK Posts: 104

Zombie thread Oh, it's terrible!

I work in a charity shop, so I've come across my share of horrific smelling clothes. Sometimes we play "guess the diabloical smell"

Posted: Oct 23 2012 02:40 pm

I heard an old wive's tale that if you leave clothes in the freezer in a ziploc bag for 2+ hours, it'll kill any stench that's in the clothes (the logic behind it being that it kills the bacteria causing the smell). I tried it out and it at least works temporarily, though the smell seems to come back after five or six hours.

Posted: Oct 23 2012 03:21 pm

leaving any fabric out in the sun for a few hours will 'bake' away the smell of tobacco. it works a lot better & quicker in AZ where the sun is out for 20 hours a day

Joined: Oct 05 2012 Location: UK Posts: 104

Cameron wrote:

I heard an old wive's tale that if you leave clothes in the freezer in a ziploc bag for 2+ hours, it'll kill any stench that's in the clothes (the logic behind it being that it kills the bacteria causing the smell). I tried it out and it at least works temporarily, though the smell seems to come back after five or six hours.

That wouldn't work because it's not the bacteria themselves that smell, it's the chemicals they produce. It seems to work at first because lowering the temperature makes the chemicals less volatile.