£230 of one went into the bin not long ago.
Yet a friend claimed she didn't even notice the smell in her bedroom, until a child niece commented and refused to be put down for a nap because of it. I reckon the friend was too wrapped up in how much she'd spent to admit that it stank.
I have two new cushions up my loft, hand made for me by a cousin, but stuffed with feather pads, and she didn't buy cheap, it's agin her nature
, but until I can get rid of the smell there's no way I'm having them elsewhere in the house.
If they don't lose the smell by Summer, new cushions or not, they're getting triple washed and hung outdoors for a week to dry in sunshine.....if we get any that is
If the smell doesn't go, they're out and I'll just quietly reline them with kapok or the like.
My little brother and I both wore feather stuffed ski type suits as toddlers in the bitter cold Winters of the 60's, and those eiderdown suits were warm and smelled of nothing but fresh air. I wouldn't even give feather stuffed slippers to a child now.
Honestly ozzy1977, I don't know what is done or is not done to feather stuffings nowadays but it's sommat not good. I wonder if it's something anti infestation ?
Feather things were washed in the Summer and dried in the sunshine when I was a child, that was all the treatment they got. Clothes were put bye inside old pillowslips until needed again in Winter, but cushions and pillows and beds were just put back to use.
We had a heck of a lot less allergies then too.
atb,
M
