Smelly Towel

(insert "Smelly Cat" Friend's song, just sub in "Towel.")

My bath towel smells really awful after just a few days. I think we've finally discovered the 3 culprits... I use mine more often during the day as a hand towel so it stays wet in some places, our bathroom doesn't get much air current (should be a normal issue in bathrooms I think?), and I generally smell much worse than my dear husband Doug.

I decided to bring this reality into the public. I'm thinking if I can connect with other smelly women, we could bond over our unfortunate reality.

Men tend to get the bad rep for smells in all areas of body odor. I shall expand... by that I mean armpit odor, bottom area odors, and mouth area odors. I won't go into much more detail because I'm SLOWLY taking ownership of the fact that most people don't feel as comfortable talking about all areas of potty humor as much as my dear husband and I do. I think you're all really missing out, but I'll just leave it at that for now.

Anyway, it's true. I smell bad, and my husband smells amazing. No, I don't just have rose- colored glasses on... those fell off a long time ago. (I think they wilted from the smells.) He just really doesn't have body odor. He never wears deodorant and doesn't need it. I'm serious. I've stuck my nose deep into the chasms of his armpits and there is no odor! The only exception is when he spends hours on a ball field or mows the grass or something of the sort. Or these days, he can smell after driving his unairconditioned car in 100 degree heat. But even then it's not bad.

Then there is me. I can smell after simply being inside all day. It seems that after I started having babies, my smells have only intensified.

The plot thickens... currently, my sweat smells like maple syrup. It's true. The sweet smell is a byproduct of all the Fenugreek I'm taking to increase my milk supply. While it is strange and leaves us both craving IHOP at all hours, it's been a nice reprieve from my normal smelliness.

But I know this too is just a season. Soon I'll be forced to bathe in my own unaltered smells.