*I was approached by a friend of mine today who currently has a roommate that has a peculiar smell. She asked me for advice because I use to be in a similar situation with one of my previous roommates...
It's hard coming into a living situation where you have no idea who the person is and don't have a clue about their habits. So what do you do when that person is sweet as pie but there's just one minor flaw... That sweet person turns out to be a sweet stinky disaster.
In the past when I was in that situation first I thought it was an accident..a minor mishap..a miscooked meal maybe??? But surely I thought that the smell would pass and I could just go about my day as if I didn't notice the fact that my room smelled as if a Porta Potty had been installed on the left side of my room.
After the first week of school I took it upon myself to buy nearly every variation of an air freshener. I bought a motion sensor device that dispensed air freshener everytime you walk past it. I even bought flameless candles, febreeze sprays, dryer sheets to place in the air conditioner, and something that involves wooden sticks soaked in scented oils. Either way i've went above and beyond to try and "alleviate" this situation. I even tried to talk to that roommate about it, but nothing ever changed.
I told my friend that if she finds herself in a similar situation and she's exhausted all of the options that i listed above then Oh well maybe she should just try painting the walls with liquid detergent.
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