Confession
You want to hear something weird? Of course you do, you bunch of freaks. I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Last night, I was in the bathroom getting ready for bed. I noticed that our sonicare toothbrush had a bit of toothpast drip on the front of it and went to clean it off. Now, we share the sonicare. It comes with two heads and since we rarely brush our teeth at the same time (I go to bed and get up way earlier than Jake does) we don’t really have power struggles over who gets their gums massaged first. But since we share it, I’m much more aware of keeping it clean and sanitary. This is our second sonicare, and quite honestly, I only got rid of the first one because I couldn’t figure out how to get the base of it really really clean. And that just grossed me out to the point that I couldn’t put it in my mouth anymore. We had had it about five years, and had spent about $100 on it, so I figured it had fulfilled its destiny and I got rid of it and bought a new one.
I have left over from my human pincushion days a box of alcohol swabs, which I find very useful for many other purposes. And cleaning the sonicare is one of them. The little pad is just the ideal size that I can squoosh it down in there with my finger and feel like I’m getting all the nooks and crannies all sanitized. (I also use them to clean my tweezers and the thermometer and the spout on my neti pot that goes up my nose when I use it, but that’s all beside the point.)
So are you ready for the weird part? (Of course you are. This post is already way longer than I had intended for it to be.) I discovered last night that I love the smell of rubbing alcohol. Love it. I cleaned that thing for way longer than was really necessary because I was just enjoying the smell of the rubbing alcohol. Isn’t that weird?
Alright, pals. I’ve shown you mine, it’s time to show me yours. What are some things you love the smell of that you shouldn’t? Is it correction fluid? Gasoline? Paint? Come on. ‘Fess up.
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I’ll bite.Elmer’s Glue. Love it. It’s the only “chemically” (and it’s not even really) smell that I like.
I don’t know if this counts but I love the smell of wet dirt. in the summertime, when it’s been bone-dry for weeks and weeks. Everything is dusty and it finally rains—it’s the best smell in the world.
Sign me up for particle board (and really any kind of fresh wood). There was some of the office today and it made the entire room smell so good!
I want to hear NOTHING from ANYONE about how gross this is.I like the way cuts smell. I noticed it most when I was little. I’d fall and scrape my knee or my arm and it’d scab over and sometimes leak strange fluid and it always sort of smelled funny, no matter how much alcohol or hydrogen peroxide or soap I put on it.
I’d have to have more space that this to discuss smells! They’re my thing! Here are some:1. I looked to see who listed wood so I could agree with them , and it was Jake! Love it.2. Crayolas3. Ozone. It’s so fresh and other worldly4. Certain kinds of paper (I guess it’s the wood thing)5. Kittens6. Vinyl dolls. That sounds really wierd.. I need to stop or I never will.Ps Ask your BIL this question. You won’t believe his answer.
Ditto on the rubbing alcohol (b/c it smells like what clean should be), gasoline, permanent markers, & the smell after you light a match.
i pretty much cream myself every time i walk into a home depot or lowe’s…. the smell of giant hardware stores is woooooooooooonderful.