Keep your closets and drawers perfumed thanks to these 3 easy, cheap hacks
Scented, perfumed closets and drawers: clean laundry and ensuring dust and mold are kept at bay may not be sufficient to keep you closets and drawers odor-free. But this doesn't mean that you have to spend a fortune on special perfumes. Read on to find out more:
1. Trusty pegs
If you have some wooden pegs, you can use them as deodorizers. In fact, you may have already read about how you can use pegs as air fresheners in your car or the shower too.
Obviously, you are going to rely on the wood's ability to soak up liquids - specifically, essential oils. Put two or three drops at of your favorite essential oil on the wood of the pegs and they will become a wonderful perfumers for your closets or drawers.
2. Wooden hangers
The same technique can be used for wooden hangers. Indeed, hangers offer a greater surface area, so you can use more essential oil. As such, you won't need to put the oils on every wooden hanger: start by putting the essential oil on only two or three hangers at first, increasing this number only if necessary.
And why not kill two birds with one stone? We all know that tea tree and lavender essential oils have anti-mold and anti-moth properties, so try using these oils for your perfuming "projects".
3. Adhesive felt pads
Are you familiar with the adhesive felt pads that are used under the legs of chairs and tables to so them making a noise and/or scratching the floor? Well, you can use these as air fresheners too. Put a few drops of essential oil on these felt pads and stick them to the internal surfaces of your closets and drawers.
Start by using two or three felt pads for each piece of furniture, increasing the number if necessay. The perfuming effect will last for a long time and then you can simply recharge them when the scent begins to wane! Remember that only one or two drops of oil per felt pad will be enough (unless you want a really strong scent).
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There are also those who use their favorite perfume for these purposes (rather than essential oils). Although these perfumes will fade quicker than essential oils, this is still a valid technique. And, of course, nothing stops you from mixing and matching your choices, perhaps linked to the changing of the seasons!
