# I smell like old lady clothes... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-like-old-lady-clothes/365556 "2006-07-22T00:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-like-old-lady-clothes/365556/1 "2006-07-22T00:48:40Z")
…and I can’t get rid of it! Recently there has been an invasion of squirrels in my attic. How I wish I could let my cat loose up there and handle the problem, but I cannot. Anyway I called the landlord about it and all he did is put some mothballs up there. It stinks up the whole house! My clothes, even my lunchbag smells like mothballs. When I get home at the end of the day, the odor is already invading my nostrils before I even get the key in the door. Of freaking course I have a wedding to go to tomorrow and thankfully it is outdoors. I guess now you can call me grandma. Le sigh. P.S. The evil rodents are still up there, making snowmen out of mothballs. The bastards. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-like-old-lady-clothes/365556/2 "2006-07-22T02:21:28Z")
I smell like old lady clothes… [QUOTE=WomanofScorn] I smell like old lady clothes… [/QUOTE] They are supposed to smell of **Lavender** not mothballs. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-like-old-lady-clothes/365556/3 "2006-07-22T02:25:57Z")
When I was in my 20s I dated a woman who had moth balls in her closets. I still think of her when I smell moth balls.