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I am out of trash bags [Nov. 12th, 2007|09:09 pm]
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That makes me sad.

I don't remember who first told me this, but I suspect it was on one of Nancy's buttons:

"When you throw something away, where is 'away?'"

Febreze is one of those new products that I think about with this phrase. "Locks away odors," it will say. "Eliminates odors in the air, rather than just covering them up." Okay... so what happens to them, then? I decided to look it up. Wikipedia says:

"The product's active ingredient, cyclodextrin, is a type of modified starch having a shape similar to a donut. The molecule binds or entraps various hydrophobic compounds within the donut shape. In this way, malodorous molecules are retained so that they are no longer detected as a scent."

So the odors don't really "go away," they sort of mask the scent so we can't detect it, rather than overpower it with a stronger smell. Like putting that bad odor in a nice hat, or more like putting it in an attractive inner tube pool toy.

"That's not cat pee, that's ... er... happy fun lucky yellow ringu! KAWAII!"

I wonder if that would work on other things? This is where I need my readers. I want you to take any spare inflatable pool toys and put them all over things you don't like: hole in the drywall, ugly bush in the yard, a coworker. See if it makes it better, or any less noticeable.

I expect photos as evidence.

Come on, it's my birthday week! Chop chop!
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From: [info]wolfdancer
2007-11-13 07:05 am (UTC)

Happy birthday

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and what is not said is that part of the perfume in the fabrise sill kill parrots and peaple like me in 11 sec or less
It makes me go away;\I hate the stuff, and wish to what ever higher power that it it would be not put willyo nillie into ever thing onthe planit
Tide ect;
done ranting.\
Happy birthday;
[User Picture]From: [info]stegosaur
2007-11-13 09:00 am (UTC)

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I have been using a similar principle in my bedroom: my covering my desk in clean laundry I make it so that the desk is almost not there at all. The downside is that the laundry seems less clean, and that it takes me a long time to find matching socks in the morning.