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Yes! :eek:</p>
<p>I wasn’t very familiar with Febreeze until S1 came home from freshman year of college. Why can’t they just wash things?</p>
<p>My son’s roommate last year wouldn’t wash his bedding. When roommate was out of the room, my son would Febreeze his sheets.</p>
<p>My S has been putting a LOT of money on his laundry card at college, so I assume he’s washing SOMETHING. <grin> 
He’s very sensitive to smells but ironically doesn’t seem too concerned if the smells are from HIM.</grin></p>
<p>Oh well, hubby chides him about it when he’s living at home & assum his room mate & he have worked something out since they tell everyone they’re getting along great & very compatible.</p>
<p>His dorm is co-ed by alternate floors. It seems a good compromise.</p>
<p>A friend and her daughter (also coll. freshman) came over to visit last Christmas while S was home on break. As she described vacuuming her room and changing her sheets weekly, S is rolling his eyes and laughing. Then she tells us how the box fan in their room had gotten really dusty inside so she cleaned it with Q-Tips. At this point S falls off the couch laughing convulsively. What a ridiculous waste of time when you could be watching Sports Center !</p>
<p>My DH is the neatnik in the family but neither boy has picked up the habit…yet. Live in hope, live in hope.</p>
<p>My boys were smelly until they were 15 or 16. Then: All Hail the Cologne! </p>
<p>The proper way for a young man to put on cologne: Spray a cloud of cologne in front of you and then walk through it. </p>
<p>I missed that episode of Queer Eye, I guess.</p>
<p>In any event, their closets smell like rotting shoes because there are rotting shoes in there because they don’t wear socks, hello.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the early evenings especially, my hallway, my bath and occasionally their rooms smell like Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Male cologne.</p>
<p>Girls who want to live next to rowdy, smelly freshman boys may not have lived with enough brothers.</p>
<p>How about girls who actually agree to sharing dorm bathrooms with boys??? Are they CRAZY?</p>
<p>As the father of two teenage boys, yeah, their hygeine could sometimes use improvement.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I’ve had occasion to visit the rooms of teenage daughters of friends and they are NOT all lilac-scented, color-coordinated tributes to Crate & Barrel. Some girls are really into hardcore bedroom squalor.</p>
<p>As I said earlier, I have one son who is very, very neat. But the other…
Once when I visited his apt. when he was a junior in college, the place reeked like a garbage dump. And guess what? It was. One roommate refused to carry out the garbage on his week, so the other 2 boys boycotted and wouldn’t take out any garbage until first boy emptied it all out. The kitchen was piled 3 feet deep in garbage bags!!! I turned, walked out and waited in car.</p>
<p>Well, as the mother of sons, you have all had me laughing as I read through these posts. I see my boys in most of these posts. </p>
<p>My son cannot stand foul odors, so this has helped to keep things clean, but he is not exactly a neatnik. He tells me that the female students on the floor actually offer to do laundry for the males on the floor! Can you imagine sending your Ds off to college, knowing that they are cleaning after other students! He told me that some of his female friends have offered to organize his dorm room. He tells me that one of his friends is interested in crafts, so she loves decorating other people’s dorm rooms, and organizing the clutter. Perhaps some of the females on the floor feel sorry for the men and feel that they need some help!</p>
<p>Maybe the girls believe spending time in the boys room will spark a romance & help the boys realize how much they need a “female’s guidance”? Can’t see my D in such a role, at all! Perhaps she would be the one to be offered assistance, as she is “organizationally challenged.”</p>
<p>Himom, I have thought of that too. I think that you might be right, but that did not occur to my son at all. He will take any housecleaning services that they would like to offer to him! It is really unbelievable!</p>
<p>When we visited my son, I asked DH to go up and supervise son cleaning the room before I made an imprint of son’s college life on my brain. DH agreed, probably because he didn’t want to hear me fret about son’s hygiene during the whole of the 20 hour journey home. </p>
<p>As a result, son’s side of the HUGE dorm room was sparkling–but that roommate! What a slob! </p>
<p>My favorite story happened when son was travelling through East Africa on an eight week overland camping trip. He came upon his favorite safari mates (UK girls) whilst they were washing their laundry in a river. Ever cheeky, he asked if they would mind washing his boxers. They said “Sure!”. As soon as he turned and left, they folded the dirty boxers in a neat pile as though they had been cleaned. My idiot son never realized the boxers were still dirty. They told him the truth months later, when they stopped in to visit us. He was mighty chagrined. </p>
<p>Those are my kind of girls. Any surprise one was an honors economics graduate from Univ of Manchester on her way to a big accounting job in London and the other was on her way to Cambridge?</p>
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<p>Cheers, I am with you on this one. Funny story!</p>
<p>good one cheers!</p>
<p>The strange thing about my boys is that they themselves are VERY clean. They shower daily (or more), they like their hair cut, they keep their clothes laundered. </p>
<p>But what’s up with those rooms???</p>
<p>Son #1 did buy a small vacuum cleaner for his dorm room this year though (not that it needed it…).</p>
<p>I am an equal opportunity mom. I can say, without question, that my daughter’s soccer cleats and shin guards are just as disgusting as her big brother’s ! They both stink! :)</p>
<p>I think appreciation of smells (or lack therof) is a learned thing.</p>
<p>As her personal space is concerned, she is very conscious of smells and filth and dislikes both BO and many scented deoderants.</p>
<p>But when it comes to the smell of hockey equipment in a locker room, she associates the smell of her own equipment (quite ripe at times despite going through gallons of Febreeze per year) with the fun of the game, often making fun of it by taking a big whiff of her glove and saying Aaaaah!</p>
<p>My S would likely not succumb to any female who wanted to “help” him with his room, as he likes everything where HE puts it (even yells at me when I tidy his room, since he likes to be the only one who touches anything in it). I can see him perhaps deigning to allow them to wash his clothes, perhaps (or maybe not – has had his dad turn things pink). Oh well, since he’s just steps from the washer & dryer on his dorm floor, I believe he’s washing his own, particularly since I’ve seen him putting $$ on his laundry card several times already–he’s up to $40 at this point.</p>
<p>My dad’s friend in college (who also ran cross country and track) would not wash any of his clothes until arriving home for Winter Break. His washing machine would be running nonstop for days cleaning the bags and bags of dirty clothing he had hauled back home.</p>
<p>Wow, he must have owned a LOT of clothes & your dad must have had a very tolerant nose. LOL! :P</p>