11 Things Making Your House Smell Old — What Japanese Homes Remove First

Somebody walks into your house and knows something about it within four seconds, and you have no way of finding out what. That's the whole problem with this subject. The one person who can't smell a house is the person who lives in it. Your nose stops registering a constant background smell within minutes, which is why you can smell somebody else's house and not your own. A house doesn't produce a smell. It holds one. Everything soft absorbs whatever is in the air and releases it slowly for months, which means what you eventually notice isn't being made today. It's years of cooking, damp, skin and dust that went into a sofa and never came out. A Japanese home smells of very little for two reasons and neither is a product. It's ventilated daily as a matter of course, and there's far less soft material in it. In this video: the sofa and the mattress, which are the two largest reservoirs in most houses. The drain traps that dry out in rooms nobody uses. The washing machine seal that quietly transfers itself onto everything washed in it. The vacuum that distributes smell rather than removing it. And why air fresheners belong on a list of things making it worse. Number one is the adaptation problem itself, and it's why this has to be fixed by system rather than by sniffing. 📗 The Japanese Home Method — link on the channel description 💬 Which did you go and check while the video was playing? I'd guess the washing machine. #japanesehome #cleaningtips #householdtips #freshhome #homehacks #declutter #japaneseliving #cleaninghacks #homecare #ventilation