My award goes to the football field-sized pile of black plastic garbage bags filled with organic waste (tree branches, sticks, leaves) from the May 22nd North Minneapolis tornado sitting at the recycling plant one mile from my house.
Three months they've been sitting there, through some of the hottest summer days in recent MN history. Every time I get off the interstate, I roll up the windows and turn on the air to keep the smell out of my car. Sometimes it wafts over to my house.
The *worst worst* part is that if the waste was not in plastic bags, it probably wouldn't smell, and would have easily composted into rich soil to grow new trees to replace the 200+ lost in the tornado.
Hot, summer 1st tri almost over -what's been your worst, most stomach turning smell?
Re: Worst smell of 1st trimester contest
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Dead rat carcass in the -20 that my coworker skinned and had to partially dry out to feed some beetles we need for an experiment.
Worse than that is the room where the beetles are, but my coworker will take care of them since he knows my nose is SUPER sensitive right now and going in there would mean lots of hurling.
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Poopy diapers courtesy of my daughter.
At work it's been my stinky chain-smoking co-worker. She also eats popcorn for breakfast and I can't handle that smell either.
Oh man, some of yours are so awful! Every time I went into the kitchen earlier this week, I would get a whiff of something and felt instantly that I was going to throw up and had to get out. Then I traced it down to an ancient rotting sweet potato buried on a shelf...eekkk
Also, trash just smells awful, even more so than before I was pregnant. I also have a weird thing with strawberries going on where they smell like a rotting dirty armpit to me. Can't smell, eat or look at them right now.
What part of MN did you live in? I just moved from Savage MN a couple months ago to the east coast. I miss it so much! I was actually only a couple miles from 394 when that tornando touched down. I was with a friend playing cards when the sirens started going off. Obviously we were fine, but that tornado sure left a destructive path. (Now I have a hurricane to look forward to this weekend, oye!)
Anyway... I know my smell is way lame compared to yours. But there is this grocery store that my husband goes to that is close to our house (but honestly very rundown) and everytime you walk in it smells like burnt fried chicken and sour milk. UGH... I seriously have to breathe through my mouth in order to keep from gagging.
So far I've had a few. My cat's poo, when she missed the litter box and thus didn't cover it up. It chased me out to the living room until DH could clean it. The garbage can, anytime, and the worst I think was old cheese dip that had been soaking in water in the sink and left there for like 4 days. I dumped the water out of the pot and RAN before I could hurl, pointed DH at the sink and told him to take care of it.
I *hate* leaving old dishes in the sink but I'm so exhausted after work I don't have the energy to clean, so DH cooks and never cleans up after himself.
Bacon cooking! You will totally gag, I do not think there is any way around it. My husband made it the last time I was pregnant and it was the WORST ever, nothing has ever come close to it.
This time tho the smell of myself has been horrible, I have to have sent free detergent, soap and deodorant but can still smell the clothes and I swear I have BO even tho my husband thinks I am crazy
That too! I told DH NO cooking bacon in the house! I can eat it, but can't stand to smell it cooking.
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6 days ago a mouse got into our attic and died in the walls. It's a space that can't be humanly gotten to with tearing down the walls and rebuilding them. It's a fairly common problem (I never knew until now) and the smell lasts for about a week. Obviously most people just wait it out rather than spending thousands on construction.
At the height of it (Sunday/Monday) I couldn't be in the house with my sensitive nose. Seriously, dead rotting animal smell taking over?? Horrible even if you AREN'T pregnant!
P.S. I live in Alabama. Where the heat index is over 100 every day. This mouse was cooking! Yuck.
Happy to report the smell is pretty much gone now. And that Home Depot sells these AMAZING lava rock things that capture almost any horrible odor.
Oh no! I'm going to a waterpark this Saturday. I'm determined to ride some of the smooth rides. :oP
Before I got to your post, my response was going to be my cat's breath too. You are not alone!