<p>I have a good friend who has a bit of a smell. It doesn’t smell like body odor… I’m really not sure what the smell is, but it isn’t pleasant (but not the worst smell I’ve smelled). When she sits on my bed it reeks of her smell.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll just buy some fabric freshener. lol.</p>
<p>Spray her when she’s not looking.</p>
<p>Hope she doesn’t have this disease:
[url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylaminuria]Trimethylaminuria[/url”>Trimethylaminuria - Wikipedia]Trimethylaminuria[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Apparently, it makes people smell like fish but they can’t smell their bad odor and it doesn’t go away when they shower.</p>
<p>well she doesn’t smell like fish… it’s like a combo of mustiness and old people.</p>
<p>does she still smell if she stands on the ground?</p>
<p>Say something like “Hey, Hey, Heyyy! No one on my bed! I just cleaned those sheets this morning!” But in like a joking kind of way if possible =</p>
<p>Could actually be the laundry detergent-- if she’s using the dye-free stuff, it smells exactly just as you describe.<br>
We used to use that when D was living at home-- it isn’t quite body odor-- just musty stinky…not sure about the old person references you’ve made—nursing homes smell like urine- but that’s not what you mean i do hope not!
If she uses unscented products, that means she is allergic to strong perfume type odors herself. So no fabreeze.</p>
<p>Get a cheap throw fleece blanket at Walmart and throw it over your bed when you have people in the room…this way, she’s not targeted about the bed. This is easier to wash than the comforter.</p>
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OMG! That sounds exactly like my roommate!! My room literally smells like a F***ING LAKE because of him! I set up a meeting with my RA today to have a talk with him about it. I can’t live with this -_-;</p>
<p>Oh, and @ OP, the best thing for you and your friend is to just tell her the truth. “Hey, I don’t know if you know this, but you kind of have a funky smell about you. Could you please not sit on my bed?” It takes guts, so good luck. It’s a part of growing up.</p>
<p>Offer them a chair.
Say I’m very OCD about people sitting on my bed.
They smell because of their shoes, backpack, coat, hair, their natural smell because of their diet, whatever carries that odor.</p>
<p>I agree most with 1. Get a throw blanket or something 2. Just have a “no one sits on my bed” attitude.</p>
<p>No one who is not I may sit on my bed. This has the unintended consequence of also not having to discern who is too smelly to sit on my bed.</p>
<p>Way to seriously overcomplicate a trivial issue.</p>
<p>clutter your bed with books and magazines, laptop, pillows etc. so there’s no room for <em>anyone</em> to sit on it.</p>
<p>or say that you’re ocd about people on your bed like someone already said. just don’t single her out</p>
<p>Nobody is allowed on my bed but me. Last year I had disc chairs and floor pillows and this year I have a couch. There is no reason for people to sit on the bed if you provide another option, and not wanting people on the bed is a pretty common pet peeve. No one will complain if you can give them a cushion to sit on at least. It is better to keep everyone off the bed than to target the one stinker if you are concerned about preserving her feelings. </p>
<p>I think I may have known someone with that fish issue. I knew her from middle to high school and she reeked so badly that I had to stop driving to school with her because I had to come home and immediately launder all my clothes and had to resist the urge to bathe in bleach. Like actually. I think I threatened to kill myself to get my mom to start taking me to school instead because it was THAT BAD. I haven’t seen her in almost four years and I still occasionally have nightmares about being trapped in her car. Thankfully she wasn’t a nice person anyway or I’d feel bad.</p>
<p>I had this problem but not with a smelly roomate- i just dont like people on my bed. Just make a universal rule to all your friends that no one is allowed to sit on your bed and bring in chairs for guests. Crack a wndow and get airfreshner for the smell.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! I think I’m going to try the “no one sits on my bed rule”. I’ll look like such an evil b!tch, because when we hang out at mutual friends room I’m usually sitting/laying on the mutual friend’s bed (hypocrite much?)… and the friend that has a smell is usually on the floor (maybe the mutual friend has subtly set this up?). I’ll be a b!tch thought because I don’t want my bed sheets smelling like her because I have to smell it as I go to sleep. Also, I’m going to try and avoid hanging out in my room, our mutual friend’s room is much bigger and more cozy anyway.</p>