Me (1) vs. Stinky Shoes (0)

I think I may have won a battle in my quest to tame the stink of shoes in my mud room.  I momentarily lost the battle when I was distracted by my back, but I am now back in full control of the situation.

The winning weapon wasn't one I specifically mentioned in my first post.  But came to me from an angel on high - who happens to be a mom of four boys.   She told me of an air freshener that has defeated the smell in the bathroom used by all her little boys.  I was at first skeptical because I have tried what I thought was every air freshener on the market.  But alas, her little gem of advice has saved my sanity and my mud room.

Yes, the Glade Gel Plug In with Clean Linen is the most fabulous air freshener ever created.   In a matter of moments, my stinky mud room was transformed from a small space with a big problem to a valley of clean linens blowing in a spring breeze straight from the mountain tops.  I could see the fields of early summer flowers and feel the soft fluffy grass in my toes.....opps...that was the dog I was stepping on and not grass.... but the scent evoked such a happy place.

I was so excited that I went to the Glade.com site to find a picture of this air freshener so I could share it all with you.   When I entered into the Glade site, I was again overcome with peace and harmony.   Have you visited this surreal world?  The cloud background and floating happy pictures with the soothing music....ahhh....a little break of reality.  As I peeled myself back to my world, I had to laugh.   If my life (and mudroom) looked and smelled like the divine place in glade.com land, I wouldn't need to spend $3.28 on this stinkin' air freshener.   

I would love to see this site/marketing with the real dilemmas that moms face about stinky bathrooms, stinky kids and dogs and houses that get stale when they have been shut up for months in the winter.  Let's see the real people in the ads with the disgusting challenges they have conquered - like stinky running shoes.   

But that aside, I love my new air freshener.  I drug my poor husband to the mudroom four times in 2 hours just to stand there and enjoy the aroma of clean linen.   For reasons I don't undestand, it didn't evoked the same grand emotion and joy for him as it did me.

Round #1 goes to me.  I win the battle for now!

PS:  2 miles of trail walking (ok, except for 4 brief bursts when I found myself running and realized I shouldn't be). I can now touch my toes again - this is a big deal for me.  By the end of this, I will be able to touch the toes, but probably won't be able to see them.  The little fat fairy is not being kind to me!

Comments

[MOM]

Kudos on finding that "perfect scent". Wish I could use that in our area when farmers are spreading you know what, and the scent sails into town when I have all my nice clean laundry on the clothesline. Hey, after you try my new receipe and fresh baked choc chip cookies when you come home, we'll practice toe touching together. We can do lots of walking on trails, etc. Please take care of that back.....this from the girl who talked her mother into doing the Turkey run at Living History Farm about 4 yrs. ago. She graciously walked the whole way with me; and I was positively the LAST PERSON TO COME IN THAT DAY, she took 1 step backwards so I wouldn't be last. Can't beat that, can ya??!!!!!

[Marcy]

Ohhhh Amy have you tried those new Wisp Glad flameless candles? Love em! Clean Linen is the best!

[Amy]

Mom, I am ready for your evil cookies! My running training may be lacking, but I am in good form to eat my body weight in cookies.

[Nancy]

Holy crap, that stuff sounds great. I'm off to the store. What I really need is a maid, but this will have to do! HA HA

You walked the whole way with your mom? What a sweetheart. I so wish you were going to be here on Sunday, but you need to rest the back, anyway. I will tell tales from the back of the pack! :)

Keep walking...

[Kent A]

You're a much better person than I am, Amy. Last year I ran the race twice (or once and another half) as I finished with my wife. (A photo of helping my wife up the final rope climb - http://tinyurl.com/35zjmu) It was very nice to let her finish first -- sons might be too competitive for that happen. Keep working on your stretching. LHF is getting close - start of registration is only a few days away.

[bill carter]

Anything that can cut through the stink is aok with me. I just don't know how I am going to attach one of these things to me so that it won't fall off during one of my long runs. Also, I will have to find an even more secure attachment for speed work. By the way, did Glade make mention of whether or not these are hypoallergenic... I can rash up quite easily.

[Runnin' Ragged]

That stuff works wonders!

I use the Clean Linen scent in the kids' bathroom! We bought the dispenser with the nightlight.

I wish we had an outlet in the mud room! :(

Hope your back gets better fast, keep walking till then!

[Andria]

Mmmmm, glade.com. Very soothing. Thanks for that. I probably never would have gone there. Glad you conquered the stink!

[Andria]

Okay, I've now had that Glade music on in the background for about an hour. Very soothing, but probably a little too much. I have to run fast tonight so I had to shut it off. Was good music to work to though...

[suzanne]

sold. you're good. i have the stinkiest dog in the world. am running out tomorrow to buy this, nothing has worked yet - i can't wait to see if this does!