The old ladies live in that old rambling house together and they won't turn on the air unless it's over 105, they have a fear of new fangled air conditioners and yell "We never had no air when we was kids and we was fine!" Oh, yeah? Because it hadn't been invented when you were kids and now you're pushing 100 and you need to breathe. Fuck. That house smells. Really smells. They sit in there with all those animals and the place always has the underlying odor of piss, garbage, whatever. They won't even open the windows. But, it's just annoying, I don't live there so I mind my own. But, today I had to say something. Last night I brought them tomatos and the odor was so GD bad in there I gagged. It was fresh cat shit (Bonnie is sick they say, and needs a litter box) and there was also a rotten meat smell, and a puke smell. It was so fucking gross I honestly gagged. I came home and it stuck with me. I had to light incense and brush my teeth several times. It was like it got stuck in my memory..and my nose and mouth. I had to tell her. It's not healthy to live like that. They act like I'm being pissy and uppity. They dismiss me saying "Oh, you have some kind of clean fetish in your house." I don't. My house is normal messy, clutter, a basket of laundry that needed to be done two days ago, stuff like that. If I come in the door and I smell the hint of something bad, I have to track it and get rid of it. Isn't that normal? I am so sick of the way they live. I cleaned up the outside and now that's about the only place I can visit with them. They won't listen to me and I think they can get sick from the smell in that hot house, it's so disgusting. WTF? Does anyone else know old people like this? Why can't they smell that??? Now the old lady is mad at me again. Both the old ladies. I insulted them I guess. But, DAMN, someone had to tell them.
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Old people are afraid to throw away anything. I used to clean my step grandparents house. They were both about 90. This is so gross...the grandma would wash her dishes several times a day. But...but she would use the same dish water over & over for weeks! Just reheated it on the stove everytime! Never added soap again. The smell in that house would make me vomit. Took my breath away, literally. And the dish rag? Holy sheeeit! They probably smelled that in the next county. All the while they have a 100 gallon water heater and refused to use any hot water for fear they would run out. They wouldnt flush shit TP down the toilet either for fear of exploding the septic tank! WTF? I am gonna puke thinking about all this. They both lived to about 100. Old people are CHEAP! They cannot SMELL! And they think everything they have is all there is left on this earth! I hope I am not like that in a few decades!!! Wow! So, I totally get what you say here. Have fun with the old ladies. They will get over it. Whose gonna take them to town next time? You will! Have a good weekend
Roxanne
You did the right thing, but I doubt anything will change. My elderly father does the same thing, and I tell him over and over again to throw stuff away, but he never listens. Once I ended up having to forcibly remove him from his apartment and give it a full clean down. He was so mad and didn't even notice that the place was clean and smelled clean. I don't think he possesses a sense of smell anymore...
If I smell something & it bothers me I become obsessed with finding the source.I cannot rest until the smell is gone. I will find it, clean the smell away & then I finally stop thinking about it. I smell things other ppl dont, until it gets super bad. Then I'm like "I toldja"!! I'm down on the floor sniffing, all over the house sniffing. Drives my family nuts! Cant help it.
Pat,
My fam is like you in that we are a casual crowd but clean. I do volunteer to deliver, "Meal on Wheel" and have been in a few old folks homes that didn't smell too nice. I think they may just have lost their sense of smell.
My parents are in their 80's and still smell great. If they start to go South the sibs and I will show up regularly and marinate them in something sweet smelling.
"My parents are in their 80's and still smell great."
Nina: Funniest shit I've heard all day. ROTFLMFAO!!!
Old people must be like old cheese. It just stinks.
My aunt is sort of like that. She is in her 70's and has a house full of antiques and second hand stuff and dogs. Who go on paper on the million dollar marble floors downstairs. 3 dogs and one of them is a black lab. Big shits. The problem is that she can't smell anything. She has a cleft lip and palate and had so many surgeries that she can no longer smell because of it. I love the woman dearly but I hate taking my kids to her house because it's filthy, cluttered and reeks. Plus, there's breakable crap everywhere.
I think maybe Roxeanne is the only one who's smelled what I smell in their house. It was like a wall of evil nasty. It can NOT be healthy. I just saw them carrying out the trash. Jesus, the trash is probably the best smell in there. At least they listened a little.
Dog poop is gross, but, it's a natrural bad smell, I swear this was like a bomb of pure evil.
That is so gross. I'm the same way with smells. I hate the smell of rotting fruit more than anything.
No offense, but you don't strike as the time to have a "clean fetish." Ha ha, I don't either. AT ALL!!!
Maybe the city could be called? They could condemn the place and the old bags could go live in a home.
Maybe the city could be called? They could condemn the place and the old bags could go live in a home.
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That's true. If it's bad enough it can be considered a public nuisance and they can be cited and forced to clean it up.
Of course, maybe that's why they don't open their windows...?
Nina,
I'm glad your parents smell good. :)
Old people should still shower.
that totally made me laugh out loud!!!
It should be condemed. She's left it to me and I'll probably have it bulldozed..with all her shit still in it. The thought of cleaning it makes me puke.
My mom DOES Shower..she's very clean about her person, that's why I don;t understand this.
The Stringham 4 -- I felt bad for saying it that way. Thanks for not blasting me!!!
(after I hit send I realize that it was sort of offensive)
I thought your comment was meant for me snark. LOL..no, I'm not a clean freak either.
you sound completely normal with regards cleaning! can't believe they can't smell it :-/
OMG!!DD...your own version of Grey Gardens! I thot you liked that true story?
I love Grey Gardens, I have all the vids marked in favs..it reminds me of how I grew up. Real close.
After reading all these accounts of old folks going all smelly I'm going to be hitting my folks and their home with a sniff and wiff test more frequently! They smell good one day and it's toxic waste dump the next. One can never be too vigilant.
GOSH that's gross. My paternal grandparents have a problem too, they have a cat and a small dog, and well they are too old to take the dog out and they live right down the chaotic part of the city. Yes it smells like piss and there are always yellow newspapers lying around on the floor covering yes, you guessed it. That and roaches everywhere. It came a time where EVERYTHING smelled like roach shit. The last times I was there and grandma offered me something to eat (she is one of those who HAS to feed everyone) I could not take a bite without gagging. I always told them they needed to spray, but my grandfather was afraid the cat and the dog would get in the cabinets and get poisoned. Yeah, the upper cabinets. OF course he wouldn't clean, it was the old lady's job to do it. GAAAAAHHHH!!!! I would always cleaned something when I was there visiting, and told my grandma about the odors. She appreciated it, thankfully.
Oh and my princess cousins' house smelled like cat piss all the time: their clothes, their bedding, their furniture. EVERYTHYING. I never told them one thing, they can wallow in their catpiss for all I cared. LOL!!!
I am very unorganized, but I am anal about odors too.
LOL. Funny stories, thanks. I am not alone in this.
YES! DD, my Mother's neighbors are like this. The one who lives across the street (with more money than she can spend) turns on no air, literally she says to save money??? The old lady is old enough to die and is sitting on a gold mine. She is not the dirty one though. The old lady that used to live up the street (recently had to go to an old folks home) was the dirty one. In her younger days she used to breed poodles and they say had very good dogs...until she became kind of senile and the dogs started in breeding and such, but to make a long story short...she stopped selling the dogs and started keeping them. She had like 20 dogs in that house (all inbred)shitting in the house. NASTY MESS is all I can say. When her son had the house cleaned it cost him like 5,000 dollars to get the mess clean enough to sell it. I feel sorry for her, but DAYUM! How in the hell do some people live in a pile of shit and not get sick? I dunno, but I couldn't do it.
Inbred poopdles?
When you get use to the way things smell you become accustomed to it. For instance When I worked for Northrop-Grumman in the Service Center where we dealt with different types of toner, paper and other chemicals I would get a headache, it took about a week to get use to the smell once that happened people would ask how can you stand the smell I would literally look at them and ask what smell.
Connie
Yeah, but, when they go out into t'e air and go back inside you'd think they'd smell it then! It was stomach turning. I had to put my shirt over my face and run!
LisaK, I'll bet they never got that smell out. It gets into the floorboards. I'll bet that old house the Gosselins are trying to sell has pee in the floorboards. She was so nasty with all those pottys.
LisaK, I'll bet they never got that smell out. It gets into the floorboards. I'll bet that old house the Gosselins are trying to sell has pee in the floorboards. She was so nasty with all those pottys.
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That's why I refuse to believe Kate is as much of an OCD/germaphobe/clean freak as she claims to be. There is no germaphobe alive on this earth that would allow those nasty pottys to not only sit with waste in them like she did, but to have them in, like, every damn room in the house. Just revolting. My toddler has a potty in our bathroom and I can barely stand it. There's no way I could have one in every room to gag on when I walked in, and I am in no way a germaphobe or a neat freak.
I know, she was so gross that way. I am not even close to being a clean freak, but, I couldn't stand that.
There was one time they were all eating right outside the garage on those little picnic tables and one kid was taking a dump right there in that garage potty. That freaked me out.
Heres a good one for your potty training talk; a friend of mine was in a nice dept store with her little kids, one was potty training. They were in the baby dept. So, this child sees a little potty sneaks over and sits down & takes a dump in it before her mom sees her! Her mom was pretty freaked out even tho they thought it was pretty funny too. She didnt know what to do with the poop. So, she took it to the RR, flushed it away & washed out the potty bowl & returned it to its place. They then got the hell out. Kids...I tell ya! And this is not a story about me or my kids! Pulleeez! No way!
Roxanne
LMAOOOOO! Awwwww, the poor kid, I hope the child didn't get upset by their reaction. Really, I mean, what's a kid supposed to think? Turd coming, potty right there..?
How she got to the bathroom with that poop had to be awkward, and the smell! EWW! LMAO! Theres no way, I dont know what i would have done. I would not have walked thru the store with poop! She did not get caught tho. Gawd!
Nope, my gma and gpa are 80 and 83 and they smell nice and have a beautiful home.... It IS always too hot in there though. They live in Tulsa, OK and only turn the C.A. on for like a week and a half out of the year.
Well, old people are usually always cold because they have poor circulation, maybe that's why they don't turn on their air conditioning units. Maybe they don't realize how hot it is.
I had these wonderful neighbors, years ago. They loved to entertain and have us over. Their house was filthy! Thirty years of cigarette smoke clinging to the curtains, walls, furniture( I do smoke). Brown cob webs hanging everywhere. The dogs had cancerous lumps that oozed shit on to anything they touched. Opened dog food cans in the fridge, that was really disgusting! You literally couldn't even see out the windows. When I went over I would never wear anything that couldn't be washed the minute I came home. They had become alcoholics(at 85 and 90)they were great people and had led very interesting lives but it took quote a few beers myself to get adjusted to the smell and be able to sit with them and bullshit. Never have seen or smelled anything like it since!
Gawd. It's just awful to see someone living like that. I grew up in filth, it was just so bad. We could never bring friends home. I'm like you, I try not to judge, but man, sometimes it gets ridic.
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