Item

Sweet Smell of Peroxide

Title (Dublin Core)

Sweet Smell of Peroxide

Description (Dublin Core)

You could not walk into any establishment last year without the delightful smell of disinfectant and cleaning products entering your nostrils. When I worked at Aldi and Lowes last year, the cleaning products sold out in two weeks at the start of the pandemic. The lack of these products became so bad that stores across the country had to regulate home many products consumers could buy at a time. The regulation for disinfecting the stores I worked at were in 30 minute intervals. Shopping carts, door knobs, flat surfaces, and bathrooms were all expected to be disinfected on a continuous loop. Although I agreed that these procedures were necessary, they products were used eventually caused me to develop anosmia. Today, my current job still has a huge supply of disinfectant wipes stocked up underneath the kitchen counter. This sight bewilders me because I never would have thought two years ago that having Lysol and wipes on hand would be seen as necessary now in our present future. To this day, I still cannot smell disinfectants, perfumes, and other fragrances to their entirety. I honestly see this as a blessing and curse due to past experiences with both strong aromas and odors.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 19, 2017

Creator (Dublin Core)

Ashley Hampton
@bigbangtheory on Twitter

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Ashley Hampton

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Arizona

Type (Dublin Core)

Meme

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Business & Industry
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Lysol
disinfecting
anosmia
regulate
Lowes
Aldi

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

ASU
Disinfectant
Air
Peroxide
Health
COVID-19
Lysol
Virus
BBT
Sheldon
SensoryHistory
HST643

Collection (Dublin Core)

Service Industry

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Ashley Hampton Biography Sheet

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/14/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/26/2021
06/07/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 14, 2021 by Ashley Hampton using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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