Odors in Your House Only Your Guests Can Smell
Stand in your kitchen and take a deep breath. Smell that? From last night’s fish to your son’s nasty lacrosse pads that he left on the table. If you can’t detect any of your home’s rankest odors... you’ve got nose blindness. You actually adapt to the smells around you. On a sensory level, your processing mechanism becomes less sensitive to the continuous stimuli. On a cognitive level, you can become habituated to the smells and basically learn to ignore them. Here are some of the most common nose blindness culprits and how to ban them from your home. #1 Pet Funk There’s one easy way to tell if your home smells like pets: Do you have them? Then, yeah, unless you’re an obsessive cleaner and groomer, your abode has at least some Fido funk. It could be pee, but more likely it’s just hair, gunky ears, and weeks-old slobber. The first step to cleaning up pet smells is — sorry, pets — cleaning the pets themselves. Bathe and groom them regularly. Then, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum. If they hav