Plus sometimes you get a better rate or better service if they have two customers in the same area. (I know this from personal experience.)
You mentioned that some of the boxes are musty, so definitely get rid of them as soon as possible, to avoid lingering odors.
You guys are clean freaks. It’s been one week. They’re not mouldy, or dripping wet. I can suffer a little bit of dusty old cardboard without ruining everything.
See, that’s the problem with asking people for advice, they tend to give it to you.
Considering you’re asking for help to make your new place smell nice and then told us the boxes you brought into your new place smell musty, that’s an aggressive reaction to people telling you to get rid of those boxes as soon as possible.
I’m sorry if I sound aggressive. It just seems like you’re all talking about something I didn’t ask. I wanted the place to smell nice for when I come home each day. Most people then changed the subject to “Oh you think you want that, but you don’t really, let me tell you what you really want, have you done it yet? What about now? Or now? Now? It may already be too late!!! How about now?”
Hmm, i think you are misunderstanding. Your said, “i want the place to smell nice when i come home”, and the response, overwhelmingly, has been, “the number one difference between places that smell nice and places that don’t is the lack of funky smells in places that smell nice”.
I agree that some of the cleaning regimes suggested are probably more than you need. They are a hell of a lot more than i do, and i think my place smells pretty decent (usually). But we are only three people in a lot of space, and we do have a cleaning lady who comes every other week. Oh, and I have a sensitive nose, and if something smells bad i remove it, or get my husband to do so.
Frosted Mom would be thrilled 
She has 4 grandkids from my siblings but I still get “the talk” lol.
I didn’t even think about the quick rinse option. Such a good idea and you’ve completely changed my methods for quick dry clothes.
Great! Especially since a lot of synthetic performance fabrics tend to be more prone than natural fibers to the growth of stinkifying bacteria, I find that the ol’ quick rinse to get the bacteria-filled sweat out of them right after wearing makes a lot of difference.
If you have wood floors, nothing beats the natural clean aroma of Murphy’s Oil Soap IMHO. I am partial to cleaning products that don’t have a ton of synthetic fragrances. The less perfumey and more natural, the better. Lemon oil for wood furniture, that kind of thing.