Earlier this week my husband and I took a short, little trip and spent two nights at a hotel to celebrate his birthday. We had a great time. But when I got to the hotel I smelled the sheets and towels, which were clean, but the smell reminded me of the temple clothes and other things they launder there at the temple. It's like a bleach-detergent mix that is used on sheets and towels that are laundered even when they haven't gotten that dirty. I haven't been to the temple in 7 1/2 years, but my brain correlates the unfortunate smell to cult activities inside the temple.
Does anyone else out there know "that" smell I'm referring to? Have you smelled it since you stopped going to the temple?

Yes, and yes. :)

It always makes me think how the celestial room is just a very white hotel lobby..

yep...just brought back the memories of having to stay late after youth baptisms to do the laundry at a small temple. The temple ladies were so particular about how everything was folded and organized. Sometimes I thought, "why don't you just do it yourself and let me go home!"

Yes! It's one of the reasons I really hate hotels.

I always wondered where that smell came from.

I volunteered in the Draper temple laundry. The towels, shields, baptism jumpsuits, underwear and socks are washed together. Everything that comes from the baptistery is loaded with clorene from the font. Even after washing and drying they still smell like clorene.

Heavy bleach smell, almost a hospital smell.

At first glance, I was thinking Skynyrd...


Then, I most certainly figured the topic to be about the popcorn scent wafting into the CR.

Ha! Good one Breedum!

Maybe I'll work on some alternate lyrics.

I remember when that song was popular.

Was in bountiful temple last week, building smells like assisted living center. Yuk!! Only wished it smelled like a hotel lobby :)

Give me 10%, then bow yer head and say "yes."

Sorry, just randomly came to mind: "I'll give you 10%, now blow my head, while I say 'yeeeesssss'"

Maybe this was Joe's original idea



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Weeder,
Excellent play on words, couldn't stop laughing... Some of those temple workers need to change their diaper a little more often.

I don't know, I am a chronic bed wetter, so I would not know what that temple smell is like. Sometimes I shit my pants too, so that doesn't help either.

lolz

And you'll understand why LOTS of detergent and bleach are necessary. And think about the age group that uses the Temple the most--bad bladder and bowel control.

It reminded me of the embalming fluid smell in my aunt's funeral home in Mount Pleasant, Utah (1/2 the buildoing was her home). Weird, I know...but that's what I remember.

Ron Burr

Don't remond me of that. Honestly there is actually nothing to joke about and loud laughter in the temple .... hahaha but once there was a guy - not the typical age group but maybe in his 30's with a bad bowel control and a big brown stripe on his pants in CR. My friend and I had a hard time not to join his Club by peeing our pants because he walked around CR and everybody starred at his ass but nobody said a word. He smiled friendly they smiled friendly back. .. actually it was priceless.

I used to work in a hospital - and there was a cleaner that always reminds me of the templesmell. But honestly there are a lot of smells that disgusts me in this "holy place" and let me cringe when I smell them somewhere else.



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