This is a public service announcement for smokers.
Please be aware that everything in your house is ruined. It is all saturated with a stench that is obvious and offensive to anyone who doesn’t suck on cancer sticks every day.
Please do not sell any of your possessions on eBay, Craigslist or anywhere else without telling potential buyers that they are ruined. They are not in mint, excellent, good, or like-new condition. They are in poor condition because you ruined them. This applies to everything in your house. You might think only your clothes and upholstery are ruined, and it is fine to sell anything else. This is incorrect. Everything is ruined including your computers, stereo, and any other electronics, and many other non-porous items.
I agree with this rant completely - if it comes from a smokey environment, it will REEK of smoke.
And your house itself - don’t forget that. We’re going to be looking for a new house this summer, and so many of the candidates are going to be off the list because people have been smoking in them. You can reclaim a house that’s been smoked in, but it’s almost a gut job.
I agree with this rant. Years ago I lent a VCR to my father. It was ruined by tobacco-residue buildup: the internal works became sticky and uncleanable; it ate tapes; and I was never able to use it again.
No,if this were the case a lot of old homes would not be livable. I’m a former smoker. I quit two years ago. I quit smoking in my home about five years ago. The house was smoked in for 12 years. Since we stopped smoking the house has been repainted inside and there are new curtains and furniture. That’s it. Believe me I can smell cigarette smoke. I disliked it even when I was smoking. You can get rid of the smell but you need to clean good. Not gut the house :rolleyes: The carpets were cleaned, we did have to do more prep work painting. We washed the walls and and used a good primer and paint combo. The furniture was replaced just because it was old. Some homes with chain smokers are probably awful, but believe me there are homes you would not know used to belong to smokers.
Or you could stop being ultra weak and man up. If you are concerned about it to this extent; what you need to do is inquire about it when purchasing something used from an individual. The world stop’s for no man.
There’s a poster on the SDMB (MacTech I think?) who fixes computers and who at one point posted pictures of the insides of computers from the homes of smokers. They were disgusting; full of this horrible looking yellow-brown gunk. Like someone had repeatedly thrown up inside the casing and let it dry out.
The 40 unit building I live in has matching off-white blinds (maybe eggshell) in all the windows. There are two apartments with weird tan colored ones. Smokers. They were much closer to white when I moved in 4 years ago.
I no longer smoke in the house, haven’t for years. We have this thing called a patio.
For many years though, I did smoke in the the various apartments I lived in and I never saw a landlord have any problem whatsoever renting any of them when I moved out. And come to think of it, I’ve never had any item that I sold on Ebay returned because of evil smoking residue.
Not only can you fix it, but you could probably get smoke-damaged items for free, fix them, sell them and make a pretty good living at it.
I hadn’t actually considered electronics…it’s entirely possible that the smoke residue itself would protect them…now that I think about it. Brings to mind some very interesting ideas…
Finding this particular topic in this particular forum…that’s just some ***extremely ***wild colliding and coinciding. And here I sit, with all of this free time on my hands…ah, the awsomeness of knowing a little something about how this universe works and using it to your advantage! ***Never ***a dull moment!
People knock smokers all the time but here’s a little something to consider: In an instance of airborne toxins or contaminants, everybody pretty much “drops” at about the same time and “the last man standing” is probably going to be the heaviest smoker.
Non-smoking, tofu-eating purists are actually cranking up their own fragility. It’s a dirty world out there people! And the dirt is moving faster than ever - far too fast to build immunity, naturally. Contaminants no longer float and drift slowly into your environment, in microscopic amounts, on the wind and in the water.
For the OP: I think your message is actually meant for buyers of second hand furniture and other stuff. Why should smokers have to disclose their status when selling something? If someone is interested in buying said goods, they can always ask upon the initial enquiry if the stuff came from a smoking or non-smoking household
I would say that if you always smoke outside, yours is a non-smoking household. Your own clothes might smell of smoke, but it’s pretty unlikely that your household goods do.
Yes because the thought of an iPhone auto correct never entered the mind. It never does for the simple minded among us. Do you otherwise disagree with my post or is there something more profound you’d like to add?
