Tuesday, May 5, 2009

It smells like...?


It started as a slight odor when we had a ton of BBQ, cucumber salad, and potato salad in our fridge, and unfortunately the tub of cucumber salad was leaky. After throwing out what we didn't eat and 409-ing the cucumber juice, the smell was gone. For a few days.

Then it decided to come back, and it came back with a vengeance!! Wow. What else could be in our fridge? Nich cleaned out any suspicious items including my beloved Brie cheese and some veggies that had seen better days. That seemed to do the trick. For a few days...

Then it was back AGAIN! So I changed out the little containers of baking soda with new little tubs of white powder that promised to make it all better. Some days it was gone, others, with the opening of the fridge, the entire house would smell like some kind of rotting thing from the bottom of a humid, mosquito-infested swamp.

After much complaining, Nich moved the fridge away from the wall, took off the back and pulled out the tray which is supposed to collect whatever strange things your fridge may be leaking...a squeeky clean tray, and a squeeky clean tube you're supposed to shoot water through, and an hour and a half later, the smell was still there. He threw away anything that could absorb odor, including pancake mix and flour which we keep in the fridge, don't ask why, we just do. That did the trick!

Until the next morning. I went to grab milk for my cereal and BOOM! Had I been wearing shoes, they would have been knocked off! I ate the cereal in my bedroom, the only place not infected by the stench, and then decided to attack this fridge! I emptied EVERYTHING onto the counters, washed all the drawers in hot soapy water and 409'd the entire interior. I even 409'd every hard surface that went back in including the containers of milk, juice, parmesean cheese, mustard, I mean everything got a disinfecting wipe down. The fridge stayed open for a good hour or two and aired out nicely! Everything went back in and it was delightful!

UNTIL...there is a slight odor in our fridge. I am convinced, there is only one explanation for this putrid stink that has decided to OCCASIONALLY visit my three year old GE refrigerator. If evil had a smell, it would smell like this, and if it had an attitude, it would only decided to show up at the worst possible time, like when you're starving or have people over. So, I have come to the decision that what is in my fridge is clearly the smell of evil!!

Any suggestions about what else we can do, apart from an exorcism and a blessing, would be greatly appreciated!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh No!!! I have no clue...do you have a leak or a dead animal in the wall?
hope you find it soon!

Mary said...

haha...oh that is awful! Especially when you are pregnant, that is the last thing you want, a BAD SMELL!!! Maybe something is dead in the walls like the person said above. Sorry!

The Beers said...

A dead something or other came to my mind too, but it's ONLY in the fridge, not even in the freezer! It doesn't smell until the door is opened, and even then it's not all the time, like today there's nothing. I don't get it! And I agree...I don't think being pregnant helps either! Ha ha ha!