My parents have an antique (circa 1910) wardrobe that has gorgeous inlay. It belonged to my great-great grandparents and has been passed down in my family. My parents have offered it to me and I’m excited to take it, but there is one problem: mothball odor!<\/p>\n
My parents and grandparents have used the wardrobe for storing winter clothes for the past 60-odd years. The entire armoire REEKS of mothballs.<\/p>\n
I am a 20-something guy and, while the odor of mothballs brings up happy memories of my grandparents, I’m afraid that if I put my clothes in this thing, they will come out smelling like Grandpa (minus the Ben-Gay).<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My parents have an antique (circa 1910) wardrobe that has gorgeous inlay. It belonged to my great-great grandparents and has been passed down in my family. My parents have offered it to me and I’m excited to take it, but there is one problem: mothball odor! My parents and grandparents have used the wardrobe for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-39461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odor"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/mothball-odor\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mothball Odor?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/mothball-odor\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/mothball-odor\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Odor","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"FtGreeneMatt"}],"creator":["FtGreeneMatt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-12-17T15:38:31Z","datePublished":"2009-12-17T15:38:31Z","dateModified":"2009-12-22T20:51:41Z"},"rendered":"