kristina ftw!
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So, I just took over our au pair room, because we're not going to have au pairs anymore.
This room is over twice the size of my last one (my last one being less than 8 m2), so I was THRILLED when my parents told me I could move in here.
This room also has a bathroom right across the hall, so that's a major plus (even though the lighting sucks, so I have to do my makeup in my bedroom
).
Now, our last au pair had less-than-satisfying hygiene practises. (Mom actually had to ask her to shower more often, because everywhere she went, the smell would linger. Poor mom, she's so nice, it was horribly uncomfortable for her.)
The shower was GROSS, just awful, hairs everywhere (and not just head-hairs, either :|), brown, filthy stuff on the floor, clogged drain ... So mom and I spent an hour and a half fixing everything.
There was also hairs ALL over the floor and everything, and the sink was dirty and clogged as well. (Oh, and her hair was like, below her butt, so yeah, LOTS OF HAIR.)
Now, we were grossed out, but we understand that not everyone has the same hygiene practises, so we just cleaned and got over it.
Then I started moving into the room. The room also had her "scent". So what we did is, we opened ALL the windows, and let them stay open for a couple of days (so I had to stay in my old room for a while still, since it's really cold here) and then sprayed the room with those deodorizing sprays and a couple of spritzes of my lovely Chanel Chance Fraiche, haha.
All well and good, right?
Now, today I'm putting my clothes in here. Rather than a closet, it has this ... I don't know the english word for it, but it has drawers, instead of hangers and shelves and stuff. So, I open a drawer to put in my clothes ... WAWAWOWA! STANK GALORE!
I tried spraying it with deodorizing spray, but it WON'T GO AWAY.
I don't want my clothes to smell like death and perspiration
What do I doooo, how do I get the smell out??
AND I'M SORRY THAT I SOUND LIKE A BITCH, but it kind of pisses me off that she was staying in our house, for FREE, and she couldn't even keep it clean.
I'm not even a bitchy person, I rarely get mad about ANYTHING, but this is GROSS. And I KNOW that not all people have the same hygiene practices, as I said before, but whatever happened to adapting? When you're living in someone's house, with 7 (!!!!) other people, PLEASE take a shower every once in a while so we don't have to walk around in ass smell all day.
The bedroom floor is covered in food crumbles and hairs too, but that's nothing a vaccuum cleaner can't fix. It's the lingering smell that gets to me
Oh, and the fact that she just moved out, WITHOUT LETTING ANYONE KNOW. Just like that. Didn't tell anyone. Oh, did I mention mom and I were in London at the time (for a treatment program for me), and dad was away on business, so she was supposed to stay home so my younger siblings didn't have to be home alone for two days?
Again, I don't mean to be a bitch, I really don't, but that's messed up. She was still hired by us, we still paid her, the contract hadn't run out, UGH.
SORRY ABOUT THE RANT
I had to get it out
And also, any tips on the smell-issue, PLEASE let me know.
(And sorry about this being so messy too, but I just got more and more worked up as I wrote, haha.)
This room is over twice the size of my last one (my last one being less than 8 m2), so I was THRILLED when my parents told me I could move in here.
This room also has a bathroom right across the hall, so that's a major plus (even though the lighting sucks, so I have to do my makeup in my bedroom
Now, our last au pair had less-than-satisfying hygiene practises. (Mom actually had to ask her to shower more often, because everywhere she went, the smell would linger. Poor mom, she's so nice, it was horribly uncomfortable for her.)
The shower was GROSS, just awful, hairs everywhere (and not just head-hairs, either :|), brown, filthy stuff on the floor, clogged drain ... So mom and I spent an hour and a half fixing everything.
There was also hairs ALL over the floor and everything, and the sink was dirty and clogged as well. (Oh, and her hair was like, below her butt, so yeah, LOTS OF HAIR.)
Now, we were grossed out, but we understand that not everyone has the same hygiene practises, so we just cleaned and got over it.
Then I started moving into the room. The room also had her "scent". So what we did is, we opened ALL the windows, and let them stay open for a couple of days (so I had to stay in my old room for a while still, since it's really cold here) and then sprayed the room with those deodorizing sprays and a couple of spritzes of my lovely Chanel Chance Fraiche, haha.
All well and good, right?
Now, today I'm putting my clothes in here. Rather than a closet, it has this ... I don't know the english word for it, but it has drawers, instead of hangers and shelves and stuff. So, I open a drawer to put in my clothes ... WAWAWOWA! STANK GALORE!
I tried spraying it with deodorizing spray, but it WON'T GO AWAY.
I don't want my clothes to smell like death and perspiration
What do I doooo, how do I get the smell out??
AND I'M SORRY THAT I SOUND LIKE A BITCH, but it kind of pisses me off that she was staying in our house, for FREE, and she couldn't even keep it clean.
I'm not even a bitchy person, I rarely get mad about ANYTHING, but this is GROSS. And I KNOW that not all people have the same hygiene practices, as I said before, but whatever happened to adapting? When you're living in someone's house, with 7 (!!!!) other people, PLEASE take a shower every once in a while so we don't have to walk around in ass smell all day.
The bedroom floor is covered in food crumbles and hairs too, but that's nothing a vaccuum cleaner can't fix. It's the lingering smell that gets to me
Oh, and the fact that she just moved out, WITHOUT LETTING ANYONE KNOW. Just like that. Didn't tell anyone. Oh, did I mention mom and I were in London at the time (for a treatment program for me), and dad was away on business, so she was supposed to stay home so my younger siblings didn't have to be home alone for two days?
Again, I don't mean to be a bitch, I really don't, but that's messed up. She was still hired by us, we still paid her, the contract hadn't run out, UGH.
SORRY ABOUT THE RANT
I had to get it out
And also, any tips on the smell-issue, PLEASE let me know.
(And sorry about this being so messy too, but I just got more and more worked up as I wrote, haha.)
