How do I remove the smell....
#21
Originally Posted by wesing
Get some old-fashioned clay cat litter - not the clumping kind - the cheapest bag in the aisle. Put the mat in a garbage bag with a liberal amount of the litter. That clay absorbs almost anything. Everything I have used this method on has come out without a smell.
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Originally Posted by Dkm
Set out a small bowl of vinegar on your kitchen cabinet. This will help with the odor in the room.
#26
Originally Posted by grann of 6
of a Fiskars Donna Dewberry Collection Cutting Mat? I bought this thing at Joann's yesterday for half price. I had it in my kitchen to use for my "Kitchen Stitchin'". It is 18"x24" and it just plain stinks. Has the whole kitchen smelling of whatever it is made of. I find it very offensive to my olfactory nerves. Any suggestions?
Be aware of Gift Bags too!
Couple yrs. ago bought large gift bags at Dollar Store for Christmas quilts made for my granddaughters. Opened the closet door that had the bagged quilts in them, and just about passed out from the smell. Just overnight, it took me a week to air out those quilts. Think they must have had some type of painted coating on the bags. Made in China. Just be aware, if you have anything gifted in this type of bags! :thumbdown:
#27
A while back I was at Joanns and I was looking around and was near a lady I did not know. I had to leave the area because she SMELLED like a skunk! Twice more I had to leave the area when she came near. I was flabbergasted and decided to go home. At the check out the clerk said, "Don't these mats stink?" MAT? I had been carrying the stick with me all that time! DUH! Thank heavens I didn't say anything to that woman who must have thought I was Stinky -- and I was--at least my mat was.
#28
A few years ago, we moved into a new house. Our big freezer which our neighbor stored birds in after he went hunting, I clean and closed up for less than 24 hours. When we opened the freezer, it smelled horrible. We thought time would cure the problem and then I washed it out with baking soda, clorox, you name it and I probably tried it. My mother-in-law even told me she thought we were going to have to trash the freezer. Then I remembered a friend of mine who sold tupperware once told me that if your tupperware got a stinky smell to crumple newspaper in it and close it up. As a last effort to salvage the stinky freezer, I crumbled newspaper and placed in throughout the freezer...much to everyone's amazement, the smell was gone, never to return! So my suggestion is put it in a garbage bag with crumpled newspaper and see what happens. Now we and all our friends use crumpled newspaper to removed odors from everything...a lot of our friends love it for removing odors from their ice chests.
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Originally Posted by raynhamquilter
A while back I was at Joanns and I was looking around and was near a lady I did not know. I had to leave the area because she SMELLED like a skunk! Twice more I had to leave the area when she came near. I was flabbergasted and decided to go home. At the check out the clerk said, "Don't these mats stink?" MAT? I had been carrying the stick with me all that time! DUH! Thank heavens I didn't say anything to that woman who must have thought I was Stinky -- and I was--at least my mat was.
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