u/Conscious_Reading804

I stumbled across this reddit, not even a month ago while I was looking up which smartphones have the best battery life. I browsed a few posts because I was fascinated and that was that, went back to my usual reddit haunts.

Last Wednesday I'm in bed with my husband. He goes to wake up his 15~ year old macbook, which has served as a white noise machine in our bedroom since he replaced it about 5 years ago. It has lived on his bedside table the whole time, rarely moved as he could reach it from bed to set up our nightly playlist. This particular evening it shut off as quickly as it woke from rest mode. Frustrated, he picked it up to check the cable wasn't damaged and was feeling around to see if it was overheated or something, he tilted it towards me at one point and I noticed the casing on the right side was separated about half an inch.

Thanks to this sub I knew we had a spicy pillow in our midst and I asked him to turn it off immediately. He then looked some more and the casing was also bursting open on the other side of the same corner. Unfortunately no spicy pillow pics cause we were not trying to open the damn thing and we were honestly terrified cause that thing could have gone up right next to our bed. At the advice of a friend who worked at an Apple Genius Bar, we put it in a metal bucket for the night, and first thing the next morning put it in our emptied out fire safe and drove to our nearest Apple store to dispose of it. Even the Genius folks were a little taken aback. But they got it wiped and disposed of correctly.

Y'all probably saved our lives, if I hadnt seen this sub I would have just assumed it got damaged at some point and I hadnt noticed.

I'm a big time lurker, a lot of my house cleaning info comes from this sub. Don't get me wrong I knew basic stuff that my Mum taught me when I was young. But some questions I can't wait to be answered.

Anyways, the thank you comes for the simple vinegar in water deodorizing hack.

My partner and I moved into a new apartment last summer. It smelled kinda astringent, and we thought it might have been the new flooring that was laid on the ground floor right before we moved in. It was the vinyl fake wood looking crap every landlord is using these days) and figured it would go away. I'd open windows and run fans to try and speed up the process. It did not go way.

Not long after we moved in our dog died and trying to fix the weird smell that permeated any fabric left downstairs was the least of our concerns.

At some point in autumn I remembered when we viewed the place the previous tenants had a cat... And the litter box was in what is now our storage room on the ground floor. The smell was old cat pee. Again I figured with a few goes with a Swiffer and some airing it would go away.

But this kitty must have tracked pee on their feet all over the ceramic tile, and into the grout and they were young students who I guess didn't notice or care as they also used that room as storage. Over winter we just kept that door shut and tried to ignore the smell.

A few weeks ago I was in the storage room and my socks were ever so slightly sticking to the floor. I finally said to myself I need to do something about this.

I grabbed the mop bucket, filled with hot water, measured out my vinegar and scrubbed the crap outta those cream tiles... Even squeezed extra mixture into the grouting to really permeate.

Turns out the tiles were actually white the whole time... I left the window open and some fans to try it up a little quicker. And just like that, our house now smells like us and not putrid old cat pee. I love kitties but I hate owners who don't keep their litter fresh.

Anyways - thank you to this sub for the simple solution to a stanky problem.