Monday, April 25, 2011

The Smell That Kept On Smelling, Repost

Yesterday, with all the egg-hiding going on, I thought about this story first posted a couple of years ago. Here's to hoping this never happens to you.....

One day about 2 years ago I began to notice this terrible smell in Abbie's room. I hunted around and could not find anything. The smell kept getting worse and worse. I looked in all the obvious places and still could not find anything. I cleaned out her closet, cleaned from under the bed, went through her dresser drawers to see if she had put any food in there. Nothing. But it did seem the smell was originating from the closet. Soon, the smell became so bad it was hard to stay in the room. It became of mission of Mark and mine to find the stench. We moved furniture, we took everything out of the closet again. We tried all kinds of air freshners, baking soda, mint, vanilla, peppermint extract, anything that might help. We had to move Abbie out of her room and she slept on a cot in the living room. This smell was dictating our lives. I had to move her clothes out and wash them. She could not play in there. It was terrible! We basically had a whole room we could not use. If she needed something out of there, I would have to hold my breath, run in, get it, and leave. We finally decided some animal must have died in the wall. It was either tear into the wall or just wait until the smell went away. We waited for about 2 weeks. Still, an unbelievable bad smell. On Saturday, Mark was going to tear into the wall around the closet. I walked in to check it out one last time. Abbie had one of her little purses hanging on the doorknob of her closet. I glanced in and saw one of the most disgusting things ever. FOUR ROTTEN EGGS!!!!!!! I grabbed the purse, ran out of the house and across the yard. I threw the purse into the burning barrel behind the chicken coop and then began to freak out. When I opened that purse the smell came out 3 times as strong as before.

I came inside and questioned Abbie (in a not-very-sweet voice) about why she had FOUR ROTTEN EGGS in her purse. Evidently when her friend, MG, came to play they went to gather the eggs. They dropped them in her purse. Then she hung her purse up and promptly forgot all about them.

It was still about a week before she could sleep in her room again. I had to wash the bedspread and the curtains, and we had to open all the windows and let it air out. Believe me when I say, all the kids know that eggs go in the egg basket and then into the fridge!

I can laugh about it now, but it was not too funny then!

PS. Go over the www.clucksfromthehenhouse.blogspot.com to read about her funny smell story. I remembered my story after reading hers.

11 comments:

  1. OK, you so totally win! WOW! I can not imagine how awful that smell would be! I want to throw up a little when I go into the garage after a little critter has passed on, but at least it's in the garage! YIKES!!! I can imagine that they all know where eggs go now!

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  2. You are too kind! I linked you back!

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  3. I remember that! The adventures of motherhood! I wonder if Abbie and MG are going to follow in Lucy and Ethel's. . .er. . .I mean their mothers' footsteps! ;-)

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  4. Ewwww! So funny that you worked all around the purse, but never noticed it. Great story!

    We had a snake crawl between the screen and glass in the living room window. He apparently crawled IN but couldn't get out. We searched and cleaned for weeks --inside and outside --looking for the dead animal.

    It was embarrassing --we couldn't even watch tv in the LR it was so bad. One day when we were expecting company, I looked out the window and FINALLY saw the problem as our company drove in the driveway...EWWWWWW!!!!

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  5. Oh my goodness! What a funny thing! Isn't it just the way that you took everything apart and didn't worry about the innocent looking bag! I can just imagine that happening in Elizabeth's room too.. but glad it hasn't! I can't even imagine the smell! Ugh!

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  6. Your story is too funny! I have to be honest that my throat started watering a little when I read it. I can only imagine how horrible the smell was. I enjoy reading your blog. Thanks for checking mine out a couple of weeks ago and posting a comment!

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  7. Oh, this is another great story. I just had to share this with you--not that you'll ever have a bad smell in your house again, of course, but for the benefit of your blog readers who just might someday--I have it on excellent authority that ground coffee works wonders in getting rid of bad smells. I know several homeschool families who have lost electricity and had to clean rotten meat from their freezers and who swear by coffee. It takes a little time, but apparently works wonders.

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  8. Maybe that is why people switched to plastic eggs :-P

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  9. EWWWW, we had a smell that we never found---ugh!
    We had another smell at one house, that was the electrical breaker box slowly melting!-not good, had to have the whole thing re-wired$$$.

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  10. Aren't children precious?? Thanks for the tip, luckily my kids are too old for these shenanigans now...

    Blessings, Debbie

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  11. Praying that you are safe after the storms and tornadoes.

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