12 Ways To Get Rid Of Scary Smells In Your Home

You’re busy during fall and cleaning can pile on fast, making your home a horror zone for odors. Eerie smells and bacteria can lurk in your couches, carpets and curtains, making your home smell a bit spooky.

So, we have some tips to help you cast out the scary smells in your home.

How to make your house smell good: 

1. Exorcise Ominous Odors

Open your windows! Air out your home during the day when sunlight, with ultraviolet components, can disinfect and help remove odors.

2. Wash Wicked Waste Bins

Wash your trash cans. Use hot soapy water to clean inside and outside your trash cans that may be keeping unfriendly smells in the home.

3. From Pungent to Perfumed

Use dryer sheets everywhere. Place dryer sheets in drawers, closets and even in the bottom of trash cans throughout your home for a fresher scent.

4. Shocking Shoes

If you can smell your shoes from a mile away, sprinkle baking soda on the inside to help absorb the smell.

5. Simmer a Cauldron of Spices

Add Citrus slices, herbs, mint or cinnamon sticks to water in a small saucepan and simmer over low heat to create a pleasant aroma to fill your home.

6. Mask your Mattress

To remove odors from your mattress, sprinkle baking soda on the top, let sit and vacuum away.

7. De-Gross a Grody Garbage Disposal

Clean your garbage disposal. Toss lemon or lime rinds into your disposal and run water to clean it out. This will give a fresh citrus scent.

8. Potion for your Pantry

Baking soda soaks up odors. If something in your pantry is foul, open up a box of baking soda and stick it in your pantry to absorb smells.

9. Refresh a Rancid Refrigerator

If your refrigerator smells, open a box of baking soda and keep it in the door of the fridge to remove odor. 

10. Vanishing Vinegar and Essential Oils

Vinegar disinfects and gets rid of bothersome smells. Add essential oils to make your DIY disinfectant smell even better.

11. Obliterate Must

Rid your home of any must smells with equal parts vinegar and water. It destroys the must and disinfects. 

12. Oust Carpet Stench

Make a DIY deodorizer with baking soda. Sprinkle it on your carpets to take away the smells, let sit and vacuum away!