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[Rosie's Mummy]

Well this morning I collected two big boxes of toys from a lady on Freecycle. It included a wooden cot and some really good toys along with the usual rubbish! When I got to the house she opened the door and I met a complete fog of cigarette smoke - I knew straight away that everything was going to stink but that was an understatement. EVERYTHING TOTALLY STINKS!

As soon as I got home I picked out some good things that I could clean/wash/sterilise and the rest of going to the tip because to be honest I wouldnt afflict it on a charity shop! The smell is in my nose and I can't get it out!!


I used to be a smoker and the smell of that stuff actually made me want to be sick!

 

[vixforever]

Yuck! My friend bought her little girl a pair of dungarees from eBay and they absolutely reaked of smoke the other week!!

 

[MrsR]

Ugh I hate the smell of smoke! My parents smoke quite heavily and I hate it! It was summers birthday and my parents came up to give her presents-they all stink!! The clothes went in the wash as did the soft toys-everything else got put on the window sil's with the windows open! Gross!! x x

 

[titch]

Oh nO!!!! I hate that smell. Sprinkle bicarbonate of soda on everything and leave for 24 hours. Then hoover it up. It absorbs smells!

 

[Rosie's Mummy]

Thanks Tiny - anything soft is going to the tip, its just awful - they must have been sitting there for weeks in smoke to stink like that.

 

[Me, My Girls & I]

Try washing down everything in vinegar as well! The big silver cross pram I bought proper stank of smoke and that worked wonders!

 

[inky]

eugh

 

[Rosie's Mummy]

I took the lot to the tip - I would hate any young children playing with them. I have had the toy cot in the sun all day to sanitise it after disinfecting it. Seriously, I had the box of stuff int he garage which is pretty big and it managed to stink it out! All gone now tho!

 

[PippaJ]

It's horrible isn't it!! Someone gave us two boxes full of lovely baby clothes for Evie and they were smokers. I had to wash it all twice and some of the bits I chucked out as I just couldn't get the smell out properly

 

[Rosie's Mummy]

Yes it seems to permeate everything, I dont know how those people live like that - it was rank!

 

[vixforever]

Stail smoke - one of the worst smells ever!

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

and there is a child living in the house!!!

How horrid