What is that Smell?

This post is mostly for the guys. Its just a fact that we are often less hygienic than our female counterparts and therefore our rooms will indeed begin to stink. The problem is, spending time around your own smells leads to a tolerance of these smells. So although you may not notice the smell of the week old chicken wings and over flowing laundry anyone visiting will.

Now there are two options as to how you solve this dilemma, the first and probably the option most with a cleaning problem will enjoy least is... just clean your room on a regular basis (preferably daily) it really isn't that much a of a chore to make your room a far more inviting environment.

Simple daily tasks to keep your room from smelling:

• Take out the trash
• Do your laundry
• Clean messy surfaces
• Open your window and let the room air out
• (and if applicable) clean just one thing in the bathroom

These simple daily tasks will insure that your room will smell clean and welcoming for any visitors you may have.

Obviously there are many of you that will not be able to bring yourself to 'adult' at this level yet, so this is where option two comes into play.

Buy an automatic air freshener. This has been one of my most valuable purchases to date. Rather than having to constantly keep an eye on the state of my room to insure it smells good, I can now let my air freshener do the hard work of covering up the bad smells my roommate and I create,by dispensing a spray of "ocean escape". 

Of course this won't work forever and once your trash and laundry do pile up, its probably a good idea to clean up. However, with the use of an air freshener you will find that you can prolong the period of time until you really need to clean up that room.