My mother in law keeps moth crystals in the towel cabinet. Ever smell

[hedgehog]

worse after a shower than before?

Why, for the sake of all that is holy, would anyone put moth crystals in a cabinet full of frequently used cotton towels and acrylic blankets!??!

:shrug:

(There, I said it.)













Also - years ago she mocked her father's second wife (her mother had died) because the poor soul was putting up canned pears but her eye sight was so poor she didn't realize the pears were wormy. Well, the mulberries in Thursday's pie didn't look so hot. I tell ya, Kharma's a bitch !

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I dislike the smell of mothballs so much that I don't have them in the house.

Cedar blocks only!

A towel that smell of moth crystals: yuck.

[CreekDog]

2. "Mothballs are small balls of *chemical pesticide* and deodorant..."

why anyone wants that stuff in their house or fumigating items they use or wear is beyond me.

[hedgehog]

4. I have to believe my house smells like animals because we have 2 dogs

and 3 cats, one of whom is an old feller who has taken a liking to the floor in the front room. (That wouldn't be so bad, but occasionally the dogs see this as a challenge and do their best to meet the challenge.)

Like I said, I live here, so I can't smell it, but I do my best to keep up with things and keep them clean.

Still; I'll take my animals any day over chemical smells! I kept catching odd whiffs of stuff all during Thanksgiving Dinner!
:puke:

[hedgehog]

6. Years ago, we used to melt moth balls in high school chemistry class

and allow them to re-freeze to demonstrate heat of fusion. Now that experiment is banned because moth balls are a suspected carcinogen.

[Rambis]

3. Mothballs asthma

I threw them all over to keep mice and bats out- Son started having breathing problems so I had to fish all of them out. I can't say it was the cause but he hasn't had an asthma related attack since.

My grandfather would carry canned everything to the cellar then when my grandmother would go to the shops he would go get them and throw then out. She lost her sense of smell and taste- I can still hear him say....

Essie, "you are gonna poison us all"

God rest them-

[hedgehog]

5. She's used moth crystals as long as I've known her - going on 35 years.

Based on her cooking, i don't think anyone in that house has any sense of taste or smell left! :spank:

[pitohui]

7. is it possible that older people lose the ability to smell this odor?

i visited a friend's grandmother and becamse ill within minutes because of the overpowering smell of moth balls

i won't have that chemical in my house but she seemed not to notice anything strange

[hedgehog]

9. I think the older people who use crystals have used them for years.

For them the smell means a clean house.

[gmoney]

8. Meth crystal copycat... don't bother please...

[Jamastiene]

10. I've never smelled moth balls.

I couldn't get their little legs open.
















:evilgrin:


:hide:

[hippywife]

11. Ummm...

to keep moths from eating the blankies? I know I hate the smell of them, too. We had to ask a resident in our retirement center to get rid of hers. She kept so many in her closet and smelled of them so badly herself that you could smell them way into the hallway outside her apartment.

We do have them, tho, to put in the vacuum cleaner bag to kill fleas when we suck 'em up, else they just crawl back out again.

:hi:

[hedgehog]

12. I could understand putting moth crystals in stored woolens, but this is a metal

cabinet with the bath towels (which get rotated by frequent use) and an acrylic blanket or two.




Did I mention the cabinet is right next to the eat-in kitchen?

[hippywife]

13. Ack!

That is terrible! No way I could eat next that. Someone really needs to have an intervention with this woman and tell her that the moths don't like synthetic fabrics.

:hi:

[hedgehog]

14. I only have to put up with this when we visit, and it's best not to raise the issue then.

I'm just using DU as a place to vent with minimum damage and hoping someone will top my post with a worse story of a relative's habit!



Besides - if I raised the subject she'd probably say my house smells like cats!