**help**my Office Is Beginning To Smell

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    CrissyA's AvatarCrissyA , 08-23-2006 12:30 PM
    Okay, I need you'alls help.....our office where we put our new treadmill is starting to smell like a year old gym bag!!

    ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE MY OFFICE SMELL PRETTY AGAIN - and keep it that why with the treadmill being in there?

    thank
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    Stephanie Osborne's AvatarStephanie Osborne , 08-23-2006 12:52 PM
    Maybe you could get one of those air freshener things that released every half an hour...or keep a window fan pointing out...
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    CrissyA's AvatarCrissyA , 08-23-2006 01:22 PM
    Yeah, I've already planned on investing in those time release things....I'm actually concerned now that the smell is coming from the treadmill itself (the moving thingy)....I think I need to find some good discenfectant stuff that will not harm the material....and teach my hubby how wipe down the machine after he uses it....so gross.
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    buckettgirl's Avatarbuckettgirl , 08-24-2006 09:54 AM
    I'd try to Febreeze it.... I find that stuff works wonders for me - I have problems with my closet because we keep the laundry basket in there, and my husband's socks STINK! The Febreeze really keeps it under control; I usually spray it about once a week.
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    Slimming Down's AvatarSlimming Down , 08-24-2006 11:29 AM
    There is also a spray called "smells be gone." It comes in a white bottle. It gets out smells really well without leaving a scent behind(like Febreeze.) Also you could buy one of those little odor absorbers. Its usually a small mesh-like bag full of grayish bits of charcol. I had a freezer one time I could not get a bad smell of until I emptied it and used the odor absorber for like a week... bingo! No smell
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    Linds81's AvatarLinds81 , 08-24-2006 12:54 PM
    Febreeze has a thing called "Scent Stories". You put a scent disk into the machine, and it emits a smell... but the goodthing is that each scent disk has a "theme" like say garden smells... so there are 3 different smells just to mix things up.

    Hah i didn't do a good describing it... so here's the link..

    http://www.homemadesimple.com/en_US/...ent_stories.do
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    CrissyA's AvatarCrissyA , 08-24-2006 07:24 PM
    Well I'm happy to say that after all your wonderful suggestions I went and bought the following - and guess what the office smells like a spa!!!

    charcoal bag - check! under the treadmill.
    frebreeze - check! I needed another bottle anyway.
    scent stores - check, sorta! I went and got one of those AirWick scent refresh things, sprays ever 36 minutes. Not the prettiest thing ever but it works!

    THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUGESTIONS!
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