Good Will in Buckhead Atlanta is a really sick bldg

[Guest guest]

Boy Good Will is really sick. I went in there today for about fifteen minutes

and it has so many molds, I don't know if that is its own storage facilities or

the combination of so many attics and basements. I know it has some of the toxic

mold from my apartment in NY (whatever that is) because I had that emotional

reaction. I could also smell it--like a " dry " mold. I got two sleeping bags

there (polyester) for my partner and washed them twice in hot water with bleach

and mule team borax, and put them in the dryer for 90 minutes. They seem fine,

but I could not get the musty mold smell off of a ceramic cup!!! No kidding even

after soft scrub hot water and a bleach soaking, it and a pot still had the odor

so I pitched them. And my hair has it. I need to take a shower or put a towel

over my pillow tonight and wash the towel tomorrow.

I have noticed that hair keeps mold spores more than almost anything. Perhaps

the oils and electrical charge attract them.

[Guest guest]

Sorry to hear that. I just hit a couple of new thrift stores north of Atlanta,

and they hit me right back!! I guess I will have to kiss them goodbye for now.

I only bought a bowl and a cup from one, and four used bikes from the outdoors

of the other one.

I don't try to go into thrift stores in my own town any more for now. Maybe

someday, right?

All the ones I go to seem to have that same dry-mildew-mold-STANK -- the same

odor in them all. It all kind of blurs together into one new unified

smell.......kinda like that universal food court smell.

BTW, has anyone smelled botrys and KNEW that that is what they were

smelling? I think I smelled it once, and it just smells really bad.........like

get me the heck out of here NOW bad.

--- In , " cocopollyphenol " <cocopollyphenol@...>

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> Boy Good Will is really sick. I went in there today for about fifteen minutes

and it has so many molds, I don't know if that is its own storage facilities or

the combination of so many attics and basements. I know it has some of the toxic

mold from my apartment in NY (whatever that is) because I had that emotional

reaction. I could also smell it--like a " dry " mold. I got two sleeping bags

there (polyester) for my partner and washed them twice in hot water with bleach

and mule team borax, and put them in the dryer for 90 minutes. They seem fine,

but I could not get the musty mold smell off of a ceramic cup!!! No kidding even

after soft scrub hot water and a bleach soaking, it and a pot still had the odor

so I pitched them. And my hair has it. I need to take a shower or put a towel

over my pillow tonight and wash the towel tomorrow.

>

> I have noticed that hair keeps mold spores more than almost anything. Perhaps

the oils and electrical charge attract them.

>

[Guest guest]

I'm kinda new to the mold issue & saw that you both lived near Atlanta. I moved

from Florida 3 yrs ago to the mountains. I was DX'd with mold hypersensitivity

& was curious as to your experiences with doctors & mold. I am looking for a

mold savy doc to help me recover once I've moved from the house I have repaired

but still react to. Would you mind sharing your experiences? Feel free to

email me offlist. Thank you for sharing.

Peggy:)

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> Sorry to hear that. I just hit a couple of new thrift stores north of

Atlanta, and they hit me right back!! I guess I will have to kiss them goodbye

for now. I only bought a bowl and a cup from one, and four used bikes from the

outdoors of the other one.

>

> I don't try to go into thrift stores in my own town any more for now. Maybe

someday, right?

>

> All the ones I go to seem to have that same dry-mildew-mold-STANK -- the same

odor in them all. It all kind of blurs together into one new unified

smell.......kinda like that universal food court smell.

>

> BTW, has anyone smelled botrys and KNEW that that is what they were

smelling? I think I smelled it once, and it just smells really bad.........like

get me the heck out of here NOW bad.

>

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