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Stinky
I live in the dorms with a roommate at my college. My roommate is wonderful and she's really sweet, BUT she has really bad body odor. I don't know what causes it because she showers everyday and stuff, but she smells just awful and so does her side of the room.
At first, I thought it was just the room we were in, so I bought a bunch of air fresheners and I kept the window open to kind of air out the room. It worked for a little while, but it came back and I think it's because of her. I've noticed she never does laundry other than her work clothes and she never wears socks (like ever) so the smell is possibly coming from her feet.
I cannot move because I've already moved once this year and it would be too much to move again.
I don't know what to do. I don't want to be rude to her, but I don't want my stuff to start smelling like her either. Is there any way I can talk to her about it? Should I buy her socks as a gift or something?
I really can't stand to hurt her feelings. :(
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This is a common problem. I think that you should not talk to her streight up unless you want to mess up the relationship. I think that maybe you could offer to do her laundry maybe if your going to do a dark load just casually say, Hey, do you have any darks you wanna wash...my loads half empty or something in a friendly way. Also i agree with the last person that you could buy her socks. But not to make it noticeable that you know she doesn't wear socks, i would buy a really funny pair that suits her personality and when you give them to her say i saw these and there TOTALLY you so i HADD to get them! or something along that line
hope i helped!
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one of my friends had the exact problem.
but she came off as kind of rude about it without knowing it, and the other girl moved out. haha.
so i would definatly not recommend straight up telling your roommate that she stinks.
i would take her to the store with her, and be like "oh i heard this deoderant works really good." and like hint that you both should try it out together.
getting her socks as a gifts is actually a good idea. there are a ton of cute socks out there!
good luck
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well, you can subtley say that the room smells but not name the cause. this way she may realize the smell and be more aware of it. just randomly tell her it smells and you just have no idea where its coming from. hopefully she should catch on. also ask what you can do to get rid of the smell. if tries to find teh sloution then she should see teh problem.
good luck :)
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I think you should sit down and have a talk with her. She should understand but if she doesn't and gets all mad then she must like smelling bad. Go around her side and try to find what stinks.
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