Do you make rules about candles and other scented products?

[gillian]

@PitonView

@muddy

most nauseating cooking smell

Greek boyfriend in graduate school microwaving liver in his dorm room

Japanese travellers on the Aomori-Tokyo overnight bus opening their dried squid snacks one hour into the journey.

[jaquo]

@RST

Do you spell out a no candle rule?

All hosts are different - just my opinion but I only have two rules, no smoking in the apartments and no parties.

I wouldn’t make a rule after every little thing that was annoying or that required a little extra work. For example, I’ve often spoken here about the guests who, inexplicably, left tomatoes under the ottoman. But was I going to add a rule saying ‘no tomatoes under the ottoman’?

Bear in mind though that one of our apartments is right next door to mine and the other is diagonally opposite so I’d see any flickering lights and deal with it there and then.