Attn chemistry people - i need help!

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unlearnthetruth

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Ok, I need to know how to make an air freshener out of simple household materials. With no way to get to a store to purchase one until the end of the month, and the understanding that no amount of pressure is going to get my roommate to start showing, I need another alternative to keep the stench at bay. I can't even breath! Any ideas? lol :rolleyes:
 
well, i'm not a chemistry guy but being a smoker i know a thing or two about removing odors from the air. the simplist is to light candles. after that would burning incense. i am sure somebody you know must have some incense they could loan you. this is by far the most powerful. or you take up smoking. cig. smoke will over power most other odors.;)

other alternatives - leave a bottle of aftershave or cologne unopened. or spray some on your roommate :D

one other idea that would be unpleasant in the short run, but might get the idea accross to your roommate is to create a smell that is worse than he is - something that will be as obnoxious to him as he is to you. then you can bargain to stop your odor when he stops his.:p
 
:p :p


i am struck by the irony that i offer advice on chemical reactions and odors and Chem man offers advice on social chemistry. :D

i may be laughing all day at this.:p
 
Is it a fart-smell or like a BO/foot smell? My roomate and I fart ALL the time and our shoes smell really bad (we're bums). If it's a fart smell, best thing to do is light matches and/or burn candles (like Ed said). If it's just a general stank, cook something that smells strong to cover the odor. You can also try running the vacuum and just leaving windows and doors open.
 
honestly - it smells like rotting flesh. I think he's actually a corpse and hasn't told me. I think it's a fart/foot/BO combination, perhaps. I have no control over moving out, cuz it's a college dorm, so i can't really do anything about it. Candles, incense are both 'illegal' but still an option ;) I've kept the windows and the door open all day, which has helped, but he freaks out if the door/ windows are open when he's here, so thats not really the best solution. He really is a strange, sick, individual. Ah well, thanks for the tips so far!
 
Rip ass in his cereal.

Give him a taste of his own medicine.

No, Im just being stupid. Buy lots of those glade plug-ins. They do wonders!:D
 
OK, there are several things you can do.

1. Complain to the University, i.e., someone in charge of on-campus housing. You should bring up safety and health concerns regarding the bacteria and rot creating this odor.

2. Contact the Health and Safety office on campus and speak to the safety director, every campus has one.

3. If these first two suggestions get ignored by the university administration and or departments, then it's time to play hard ball! Start posting flyers in the dorm, around campus if necessary, explaining that this guy doesn't shower and is not clean. Nothing motivates change quite like embarassment.
 
Man, I am glad that I am not your roommate. I suppose that you have, uh, tried talking about the issue?

I just thought that it would be very embarrassing to find that my rommate is complaining about me on a public forum...

;)
 
i think Chem man has some good points since you make it sound like you have already tried talking. It also sounds like you are a bit afraid of him. or else you are not really serious about standing up for your right to the room and it being livable.

I would start with an RA rather than the departments. If that fails then try the school and the embarrassment factor. Being serious about how offensive he is would also work better than friendly hints and jokes about his stench. Have girls into the room and let them say something to him. that one works wonders. One cute girl can change a guy's attitude about showering faster than a dozen dept. heads.:D

on the other hand, being someone with a poor sense of smell, i always wonder if we all simply have different tolerence levels. I can imagine a complaint like yours coming from someone like Niles on Frazier when nobody else would care.:p

(i am not assuming you are being too picky, but the lack of real knowledge about each other leaves the levity of anyone's posts around here in question at times;) ) ( and if the girls don't agree with you, then maybe it is you:D )
 
It's not so much that I'm afraid to talk to him - it's that he's very hard to talk to about things as such. He's a got a lot of odd quirks about him, he gets upset if I'm awake when he's sleeping, or vice versa, I don't quite get it. Anyway, the reason he's hard to talk to, is that the slightest feeling of criticism sets him off. He get belligerant and yells and throws stuff around. It's really quite silly. He's a bass player two, and as a fellow musician I'll occasionally notice him make a mistake, and try to suggest ways to improve - he flips out. So I worry that saying "dude, you freakin smell" won't go over well - haha. So that was why i wanted a discrete way of just kinda tidying up without him getting all b*tchy
Actually though, I have told the kid that the room smells really bad etc etc, he seems to think it's just "the room" and that he has nothing to do with it. He's quite confused as to how the room can smell by itself. I just don't get it. Ah well... I've had the windows open again, and it's not too bad right now... :rolleyes:
 
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