Making the Bedroom a fresh nest.
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Does Your Bedroom smell funky?

To you, living in it night after night, it may smell, well, like you. But, to others who may come by and perhaps have to go through your room to the powder room, or if they are over night guests, whether family or romantic, it may have a funk that can be really quite the turn off.

One way to clear the air in there, is to be sure you take those sheets off at least once every two weeks and wash them. Waiting till they are crunchy is not the test.

So, grab those sheets and pillow cases and toss them into a washer and get busy doing that. Now, while they are cogitating in the washer, take the pillows and a fabric softener sheet and toss them in the dryer on air fluff. If they are fiber fill, add a ltitle heat, but those foam ones should not be heated.

That going on, take carpet freshener, [a powder for the carpet] and some baking soda, or buy the kind of carpet freshener made with baking soda, and sprinkle that all over that mattress. Work it in with a gloved hand [the kind for doing dishes, as the baking soda can be abrasive] and turn your attention to the furniture in there, be sure to get the dust off the surfaces and the dust rag should be cleaned out, so as not to release the dust back into the air.

when the sheets are dried head back to the bedroom and vacuum up the freshener. Not only will the room and the mattreess be fresh and clean smelling, but the dust in there will be removed and with it, the dust mites that live there. Among other beasties that live along side you in your home, dust mites are a major cause for coughing and sneezing and, most of the dust you breath in contains not a small portion of dust mite pooh.

As they live in the dust and in your mattress and pillows, they are eating the skin cells you shed, which you do daily. they will also consume body oils that collect. so, every breath has a lot of poop in it..no wonder you were coughing!!

Your room wont be finished till you have vacuumed the rug, or washed the floor if no rug is in there..but oh! The smell when you are done..I recommend using aroma therapy type frangrances..preferring less cloying scents. Baby Powder scent is great on the baby, and maybe, just maybe, in tennis shoes, but not on your mattress, you will quickly get tired of that, and rose or potpourri will get old very quickly also.

so I would pick lavender or lilac, maybe jasmine.

You need only do the mattress once a month, but the sheets, remember, twice a month!!

You may find you spend a bit more time in there now its clean and fresh.