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When Did American Homes Become So Stinky?
tvMy recent revelation about how the sorts of phone service related ads being shown have changed got me paying closer attention to what else is being advertised on TV these days. A strange and scary pattern emerged; we've apparently become obsessed with making our homes smell like fruit and flowers and such. When did our living areas start smelling so bad that this became necessary?
I wish I'd bought stock in an air freshener company, because there's some big money there these days. The choices are nearly infinite: The old-style weak ones come in glass and plastic, in every color, in shapes that range from utilitarian to cutesy to artsy, with liquid or solid scented stuff in fragrances that cover the spectrum from simple one-note scents to elaborate aromatherapy blends. The newer, powered ones, which can be battery or electrical, offer us fans, lights and visible puffs of... whatever that smoky stuff is... And, most surreal of all, a thing like a CD player that spews a whole series of scents from discs that look like CD's.
Then, there are the candles, the sprays (some of which are air sanitizers, whatever that is), Febreze, which you're supposed to spray on all your cloth surfaces, fabric softener that they make a big deal of the scent of in ads with no mention of the softening ability...
Want to know what's really odd? I can't remember the last time I saw an ad for perfume (or body spray, does that even exist any more?) I did see some ads for men's cologne, though... maybe men have gotten stinkier too?
[Perhaps Americans have become so lazy they just don't clean their houses as they should. They just need special smelling scientists to invent new ways to make the house smell better. I'm guilty for burning candles and I'm even more guilty for being a tad messy. I let little shreds of paper get on my bedroom floor well before I sweep it. But come on!! Pick up a mop!!]
Imagine what foreigners think when they come to this country and see American TV, and American ads, for the first time. Do they go back home and tell their friends that all we care about are cell phone plans and making our homes smell sickeningly sweet?
We are a disturbingly weird country.
I wish I'd bought stock in an air freshener company, because there's some big money there these days. The choices are nearly infinite: The old-style weak ones come in glass and plastic, in every color, in shapes that range from utilitarian to cutesy to artsy, with liquid or solid scented stuff in fragrances that cover the spectrum from simple one-note scents to elaborate aromatherapy blends. The newer, powered ones, which can be battery or electrical, offer us fans, lights and visible puffs of... whatever that smoky stuff is... And, most surreal of all, a thing like a CD player that spews a whole series of scents from discs that look like CD's.
Then, there are the candles, the sprays (some of which are air sanitizers, whatever that is), Febreze, which you're supposed to spray on all your cloth surfaces, fabric softener that they make a big deal of the scent of in ads with no mention of the softening ability...
Want to know what's really odd? I can't remember the last time I saw an ad for perfume (or body spray, does that even exist any more?) I did see some ads for men's cologne, though... maybe men have gotten stinkier too?
[Perhaps Americans have become so lazy they just don't clean their houses as they should. They just need special smelling scientists to invent new ways to make the house smell better. I'm guilty for burning candles and I'm even more guilty for being a tad messy. I let little shreds of paper get on my bedroom floor well before I sweep it. But come on!! Pick up a mop!!]
Imagine what foreigners think when they come to this country and see American TV, and American ads, for the first time. Do they go back home and tell their friends that all we care about are cell phone plans and making our homes smell sickeningly sweet?
We are a disturbingly weird country.
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