Could it possibly be good manners, respect, and a disposable income? You know, things the OP hasn’t encountered before?
Thank You, Bizzwire! You’re my homie!
I wonder how much of that it is, actually. Many, many people of that generation were, at one time, smokers. It gets into the carpets and walls and as it ages, the scent changes.
I think best point was the one made about old things, more than old people. Such as 40+ year old carpet, which certainly has a smell to it. My parents bought their current house from an older woman, and sometimes you open a rarely used closet and still get a wiff-- stale cigarettes, mustiness, and mothballs. My grandpa, once a stage carpenter by trade, continues to love working on his house (at 92, now), and when I go there, it doesn’t smell any different from my house. (Actually, it smells better there because we have cats and a dog, and Grandpa doesn’t)
:eek: I may end up in an Axe infused group facility?! Noooooo!!
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I can’t tell whether you’re joking or not, but you do know that all a vasectomy does is sever the tube that allows sperm to get from the testicles to the outside world, right?
My fiance’s late grandmother was in a nursing home for many, many years and when we last visited, it smelt like urine. That was pretty much the only description we could attach to the smell. Which isn’t to mean thst the nursing home wasn’t thoroughly cleaned, it was just there were quite a few residents, including my fiance’s grandmother, who had catheters. Which made it smell like urine and possibly worse.
But I don’t recall my (maternal) grandparents house as every smelling moth-bally or dusty. My grandmother kept it incredibly clean. It just smelled like a regular house to me.
And I still don’t get the fascination that older people have to use mothballs everywhere. It seems to increase in their advancing years.
No, that’s the smell in elves’ homes.