Loving Your Husband: Creating A Welcoming Home Environment
{A Scentsy Review & Giveaway}
If your husband is like mine, he doesn’t notice if the house smells like vanilla or cinnamon or a fresh ocean breeze. But if your husband is like mine, he DOES notice if the house smells musty, stale or faintly like “eau de garbage can.” Am I right?
A house that smells good is not something my husband *thinks* he cares very much about, and I do get teased a little now and then for fussing over my Scentsy warmer and swapping out the waxes. But whether he realizes it or not, since he really doesn’t care very much for a stinky house, by default he does appreciate my Scentsy warmer after all! (Or at least I like to think so, right?)
![The Whoot Warmer The Whoot Warmer](https://classichousewife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/whoot-225x300.jpg)
Creating a Welcoming Home Environment
I’m sure many of you have the practice of tidying up the house shortly before your husband comes home to welcome him home from his long day at work. (If not, you should! I’m just sayin’.) Tidying up is a good start but it’s only one of the five basic senses. And if the house looks clean but smells “off” when hubby walks in the door, I guarantee that will be what he notices first! Three simple steps can help keep your house from smelling unpleasant.
1.) Take out the garbage regularly, before it begins to smell. I realize you may have certain trash pick up days! One thing you can do to help is double bagging the trash bag(s) that will have to wait the longest (the ones that get sacked up the day after trash day.) Sack it up, tie it well, then slip another bag over the top and flip the whole thing over and tie well again. This traps the opening on the inside bag down inside the second bag and helps keep smells from escaping.
2.) Air out the house on decent weather days. Depending on where you live, you may not be able to do this much during the middle of the summer or the middle of the winter, but if you get a freak cool morning or warm afternoon and can manage to open the windows for even 20 minutes, the fresh air will do wonders for a stale house!
3.) Throughout the day, or for a little while before Hubby gets home, add some fragrance! There are a lot of ways to do this. Personally, I am not a fan of fragrance air sprays. Ick! I do love candles. And I have boiled spices and fruits on the stove. But my favorite, by far, is my Scentsy warmer – which I’ve had for about 4 or 5 years now.
![The Ashbury Warmer The Ashbury Warmer](https://classichousewife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ashbury-224x300.jpg)
Why is Scentsy my favorite?
- It’s wickless, it doesn’t add soot and who-knows-what into my home
- The wax melts, instead of burning, so it doesn’t add wax into my home either
- The wax is food grade which means it’s been cleared of impurities, so those aren’t releasing into my air, either.
- The wax lasts soooo long. I switch it out when I’ve become accustomed to the smell, but I can reuse it again and again for hours and hours. There are 8 wax cubes in each bar.
- Allergy friendly – They use essential oils (and yes, absolutes and synthetic fragrances) – but I’ve learned (as a fragrance sensitive person) that their “food” and “natural” smelling scents that you can find in nature don’t bother my allergies. By avoiding scents that are likely to contain synthetic fragrances I avoid allergy problems! Read more about their oils here.
- No harmful phthalates (or VOCs – read more about that here.)
- Low temperature – the wax melts at a low temperature so that if you spill hot wax you (or the kids) won’t get burned
- I can turn it on for a few hours without much thought – unlike a candle or a stove, which I need to keep more of an eye on
- Uses less electricity than a stovetop (or no gas for a gas stove, which is expensive right now!)
- The warmers come in all shapes, sizes and color and are solid, well made and not easily* broken. It’s been able to stand up several years of life with a little boy in the house.
See that asterisk up there? Yeah. The warmers are not *easily* breakable. But they do break. Especially if you catch the cord with the leg of a cabinet after adding feet to the bottom and then turning it back over. You might catch the cord hard enough to pull it off the kitchen counter and send it crashing to the floor–and well, Scentsy warmers don’t handle that well. Go ahead, ask me how I know! Needless to say, I’ll be hosting a Scentsy party soon to earn a new one! I already miss it..
![The Lisbon Warmer The Lisbon Warmer](https://classichousewife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Lisbon-225x300.jpg)
Which Scents Are My Favorite?
Right now I have Autumn Sunset, Christmas Cottage, Sunkissed Citrus and Perfectly Pomegranate in my stash. I love the first two, and for the past week I’ve been trying out a new one – Perfectly Pomegranate. It’s niiiice. It’s sweet but not too sweet, fruity enough you almost want to lick it (I wouldn’t recommend that) and not “girly” at all. It’s just a yummy, relaxing, cheerful smell. My daughter declared it smells like popsicles.
I pretty much love all the food smells: apple, vanilla, coffee. (Of course, coffee, right??) Not only do I prefer these over heavily floral scents, and not only do these seem to be “safe” for me allergy-response-wise, but I think it makes the home feel homier. If you walk in the door and it smells like something is baking, how is that not welcoming?!
Your Husband Would Love Your Scentsy Warmer, Too
(Even if he doesn’t realize it, either!)
Creating a welcoming home environment speaks to my husband’s love language. His love language is acts of service and when he sees me putting time in on things around the house that he cares about, it makes him feel loved. I like it when he feels loved. =)
If your husband is like mine, he may not realize how much peace that little Scentsy warmer keeps in our marriage. 😉 That, and taking out the trash, and keeping the house picked up, of course. And whether he thinks he cares or not, it’s a really nice way to welcome your husband home from his day at work, with a tidy place and an inviting smell.
![Palette Warmer Palette Warmer](https://classichousewife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Palette-Warmer.jpg)
My friend and Scentsy consultant, Hollie, has graciously provided one Scentsy Warmer and a 3 pack of Scentsy bars, to bless one mom and her lucky husband. One winner will receive the Palette Warmer (pictured above), and one bar each of Black Raspberry Vanilla, Perfectly Pomegranate, and Skinny Dippin’. To win, enter in the Rafflecopter App below. Blog comment is the only entry required for the giveaway, everything else is bonus! (U.S. Residents only.)
(The giveaway will go live shortly before the Mommy Time Party begins – tonight! Facebook! It begins at 8pm Eastern on Blessed Beyond a Doubt – see you there! Come back here later to enter!)
You can find Hollie on her site, Facebook and Twitter. If you don’t win, and live local to the Granbury/DFW area of Texas, you can earn free Scentsy products by hosting a party. Even if you don’t live local, you can do an online party by asking Hollie!
**A special thanks to Hollie for providing a sample of the Perfectly Pomegranate bar for me to review. Also, for sending me pictures of her Scentsy warmers in use – since I broke mine right before the review! Thanks, Hollie!
Do I have to be a mommy to enter? I do have a husband and a dog (who basically needs me as much as a child would, I’m convinced!). 😛
You don’t have to be a mommy yet!! =)
u dont have to be a mommy at all
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I love when my hubby comes home and he smiles when he smells the aroma of dinner cooking in the kitchen. It really makes him smile!
I try to make sure the house is clean or at least the areas he will see. If he hasn’t eaten I try to have something ready for him
I like to have the kids pick up the house (as best they can) and have supper in the works.
My hubby loves scented candles me not so much with 3 lil ones ages 2-6!!
Just greeting him at the door. 🙂
neither of us work…………..
I like for the kitchen to smell good…toys and school stuff put away. 😉
This I need to work on. Try to have things cleaned up and a smile on my face.
I try to have dinner ready! Something I would like to get better at would be to have the kids pick up the living room to welcome dad home.
What a great prize!
Having house cleaned and dinner ready!
I try to have dinner ready for him when he gets home. He has worked hard all day and a good meal when he gets home is what he loves. 🙂
I would love to win this I love scentsy!
I make sure things are picked up and I will often light candles 🙂
I would love to try these!! all my friends say they are great!!
The kiddos and I try to make sure that the house is straightened, dishes are done and dinner is cooking.
Making good meal…smells throughout house and he can eat after long day! No waiting for it to be made!
I adore my house smelling nice, so does my family – with our hectic lives 2 dogs & 2 cats we always have the windows open letting in the fresh air, sprays just don’t agree with our allergies 🙁 so we don’t really use them very much
We love Scentsy. A few years ago my husband ordered Irish Cream and then they stopped selling it ;( he was so broken hearted
With dinner ready and a kiss at the door.
Try to have dinner ready when he gets home.
A smile, hug, and a kiss from me. The a huge “DADDYYYYY!!!” and a running leap into my husband’s arms from our son. I usually try to add onto that by having dinner on the stove (or on a plate if he’s coming in late to warm up). 4 out of the 7 days the house is picked up with only a few toys out (I’m working on teaching our 3 year old to put up toys he’s been playing with as he gets new toys out).
I pick up the living room and fix dinner
I try to get our living areas cleaned and floors vacuumed… It really makes a difference!
To prepare for my Hubby to come home, I like to have the kids situated with something to keep them productive for a few minutes so that he can relax and share his day first. It makes it easier for him to switch gears from work to home if he can unload the events into a welcoming ear.
Since my husband has been unemployed on and off for the past 3 yrs I am a little out of practice. Normally I clean up the house and have dinner started when he walks it. He likes to relax a little before eating.
I try to have the house cleaned and dinner waiting.
I try to have dinner ready by the time he gets home, and I also try to have the house picked up…but that doesn’t always happen!
Currently single, but my late husband arrived home earlier than I did, and often had dinner ready for me. Love Scentsy! Thanks for the giveaway.
He love to have a hot dinner waiting, my fb is Michelle Trump and my email is tracietrump@yahoo.com
I usually have dinner ready and try to have the kids pick up their toys from the living room. Unfortunetly, the latter doesn’t always happen.
I usually like to have things picked up and dinner going, but these last couple of months, our household has been battling illness so it’s been rough! Ready to get back on track!
Unfortunately I do I not do a great job of this, I do try to have the house picked up a bit though.
My husband works nights and gets home around 730 am. I make an effort to be up and relatively attractive (I brush my teeth) when he gets home, and surprise him occasionally with breakfast cooking when he walks in the door. Who doesn’t love bacon? ?
I love scentsy! I have a friend who is a rep who got me hooked!
We try to get the living room straightened up and have dinner cooking so that he can eat shortly after he gets home. I try to make myself look a little more presentable too if I’ve been cleaning.
My hubby works from home so we try all day to make things special for him. Since he does phone work we try to be extra quiet and tiptoe around when he needs us too. He works long hard hours, but he loves to play in between breaks so the kids look for a phone and when no phone is being used, it is fair game to play daddy games or go hug and kiss on hubby. We all work on cleaning the home and keeping all things straight with myself directing of course. I love scentsy, but one of… Read more »
I try to make sure the house is in order and that dinner is about ready to be served.
I do! I try to have the house clean, smelling nice, and delicious food on the table
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My son and I try to meet him at the door with hugs and kisses!
When I know my husband is arriving home, I usually have dinner almost completed, I try to have the dishes done, and I try to be off of the phone and have the television off so that he has my full attention when he walks in the door
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Make dinner, greet him at the door with a hug and welcome home
I try to have dinner ready when he walks in the door….
I try to stop school at a certain time and clean up, and then I cook dinner so that it will be ready when he gets home from work.
I make sure the house is clean and welcoming. I love candles, so one is always burning, but I would LOVE to try scentsy!
Have Supper ready and waitng!
I work from home, on the clock, taking calls just like I’m in a call center. I make sure the house is picked up and dinner is ready when he gets home. I used to have candles going but some of them were too strong for him. I’ve been curious about scentsy for a while and would LOVE to have this set!
My son and I pick up ALL the toys he’s been playing with. I have the table set, and dinner ready to eat!