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Stinky Belly Button
  • AnonUser27
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    Ewww! My belly button stinks! Its awful. Wtf?!
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  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    I was in Walmart and witnessed someone lift up their shirt, stick a finger in their belly button and then sniff it. Complete and utter disgust.
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    Sometimes belly buttons get funky. Throw some baby powder in there. 

    confessional-manager

    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,934Member
    After a serious 120 degree patrol, you get a pool of rancid naval sweat. And who ever fell asleep first usually got it on their upper lip, "it's more hygienic then butt or crotch sweat".
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, You shine it when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone.
  • momofdbbmomofdbb
    Posts: 9,366Member
    I have seen on tv ( so take it with a grain if salt) that the belly button is the place the body stores bacteria. It's covered with germs and bateria and well gunk. But if you wash it completly like scrub it till everything is bateria free you get sick easier. So a dirty belly button is not always a bad thing.
    " Wibbly wobbly timey wimey ......." The Doctor
    " I'm a leafe on the wind..watch how I soar ." Wash :((
    " Oh the wall had it comming.' Sherlock Holmes
    yea I am geek !!
  • LLB
    Posts: 3,382Member
    Dh has a stinky belly button! I noticed it right away when we started dating and told him he needs to clean himself better! Almost 12 years later it still stinks no matter how well he cleans it!
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    Good to know @momofdbb!

    confessional-manager

    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • momofdbbmomofdbb
    Posts: 9,366Member
    I still clean mine and DSs (4 ) DS (12) is in charge of his own belly button , lol ! Just not with a q-tip
    " Wibbly wobbly timey wimey ......." The Doctor
    " I'm a leafe on the wind..watch how I soar ." Wash :((
    " Oh the wall had it comming.' Sherlock Holmes
    yea I am geek !!
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    Any reason why not with a q-tip?

    confessional-manager

    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,934Member
    Because real men use their index finger
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, You shine it when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone.
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    LOL

    confessional-manager

    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • CanadianMamaCanadianMama
    Posts: 9,655Administrator, Moderator
    You can use a little hydrogen peroxide too, that should help clear up any bacteria. Women can be prone to getting yeast infections that manifest inside the belly button. You don't need to stick your finger in and smell it, it can be rather stinky. Wash it really well, use hydrogen peroxide to take care of bacteria and baby powder to absorb residual sweat or other liquid, it should clear up in a few days.

    community-manager


  • LifeofchaosLifeofchaos
    Posts: 996Member
    I had my belly button pierced many moons ago.... It never did heal and smelled like rotting meat. Needless to say the ring came out.... Ewwwww
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    I would imagine these would have to be really deep belly buttons. Like knuckle deep.
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    Not necessarily but possibly.

    confessional-manager

    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • fatchickonabikefatchickonabike
    Posts: 5,638Member
    All right, enough navel-gazing! (See what I did there? I kill me!)
    "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof bullshit detector.” - Ernest Hemingway
  • LLB
    Posts: 3,382Member
    I'm not sure why they would have to have a deep belly button in order for there to be odor... Dh actually has a really funkie half innie half outie belly button but it is not very deep and yep it stinks no matter how well he cleans it!
  • pdxmama
    Posts: 1,470Member
    Belly buttons collect gunk and get stinky if you don't clean them. But just using a soapy finger/corner of a washcloth while in the shower is generally sufficient.
  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,482Member
    Just not in Walmart, @FMS!
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    If you can't do a little belly button pickin' at the Wally-Mart where can you do it? What's this world comin' to?

    confessional-manager

    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,934Member
    Yeah! Why stop at sniffing? Might as well lick that finger too!
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, You shine it when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone.
  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,482Member
    The navel used to be considered an erogenous zone when it came to foreplay.  Now I understand why that might no longer be the case!
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    Well that's why I was disgusted. A grown adult doing that in public. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by anything at walmart.
  • undercoverbanana
    Posts: 7,904Member
    it's the same funk that gets behind your ears in the heat. my boy used to get some stinky ears, if i didn't remind him to wash behind his ears.
    i'm nekkid.
  • Thefinder
    Posts: 1,664Member
    my belly button is always stinky.... :(
  • sunnymommasunnymomma
    Posts: 2,258Member
    I have never met a smelly belly button. Who has the bail money? Im going out hunting for one. Walmart seems like a good place to start! 
    I am me, and I am loved
  • TorturedbyTWINSTorturedbyTWINS
    Posts: 1,194Member
    You know that everyone reading this post just checked their belly buttons for stankiness.  LOL.  I'm happy to report, mine is just fine and nonstanky.
  • CrashCrash
    Posts: 8,541Member
    Randomly...@thefinder....an old bf of mine was named Dick. Not Richard...Dick. He changed it legally when he was 30-ish.
    See ya in another life, sister!
  • AnonUser26
    Posts: 1,144Guest
    I pressure wash mine in the shower.

    Ew. Just... Ew
  • BookMum
    Posts: 717Member
    Ive met several crusty belly buttons...you see gross schtuff like that when youre a nurse. I never could smell them, but ive learned to breathe through my mouth like an ace.
    I shall futterwacken...vigorously*
  • KiinuKiinu
    Posts: 1,160Member
    Dh's collects lint... I'm not really sure how or why, it's pretty shallow so you can totally see the lint (which is why I know this lol), and he does clean it everyday.
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    Smegma? Oh and @Kiinu my SO's belly button is so shallow, like a thumb print. And there's always lint in it. I like to pull it out and tease him about it.
  • ImWendyImWendy
    Posts: 6,527Member
    Once in a while I've gotten like a sore belly button. Come to think of it, it was before I lost 72 pounds... Anyway, I would soak a cotton ball in alcohol and lie down with it pressed into it for a few minutes. Stung like a bitch, but solved the problem!
    deus ex machina
  • KiinuKiinu
    Posts: 1,160Member
    @MassHysteria LMFAO I just tease him, I think if I pulled it out for him he'd give me WTF face. He already makes fun of me for popping his pimples.

    I've actually never inspected the status of my bellybutton smell... I'm going to assume that if I don't smell it whilst going about my usual grooming habits that I'm safe XD
  • beambeam
    Posts: 1,083Member
    Never met a smelly belly button either BUT if I pop small pimples that I sometimes get on my ear lobe (or where my ears are pierced)  - nasty!!!!!
    :-&
    "Magic things are fond of deceptions.” ― Tom Robbins
  • Mommyliciousx4Mommyliciousx4
    Posts: 1,769Member
    This totally made me thiink of something dh had encountered.
    He was at a rest area for the night and another trucker had come inside the plaza area n yelled
    "Can someone PLEASE tell me why my belly button smells like my ayyusswwhoooole!"
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    Lmfao @Mommyliciousx4!
  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,934Member
    Not going to lie, I smelled my navel after PT this morning
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, You shine it when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone.
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    @FMS I figured many if not all reading this thread would give it a sniff.
  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,934Member
    Well I have to say I was surprised on how it smelled like old spice and manliness
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, You shine it when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone.
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    Old Spice eh? Who would have thought
  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,482Member
    The "Old Spice Theme Song" is going through my head right now!
  • ToothfairyToothfairy
    Posts: 398Member
    I haven't noticed an odor, but I will occasionally use my facial scrub in there. When I get a spray tan, the 'stain' will get concentrated there, and it looks a little funky when the tan starts to wear off. THis is when the scrub really helps.
  • [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,528
    I heard on some show I wasn't really watching this one day that you shouldn't put anything in your belly button that you wouldn't put in your eye. Then again I wasn't really watching it and I think it was Dr Oz, and I don't trust anything that man says.
    I'd use vodka. It cures all.
    Get me a damn beer.
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    @notsohotmomma Dr Oz is creepy to me. Like used car salesman/magician creepy.
  • meandmy243meandmy243
    Posts: 6,655Member
    Mine has had a funky odor since my last laproscopy... before that it didnt close after the first one i peroxied it... lol it sucks..
    mom of wild children
    going to the chapel 7/5/2014
  • irishlassirishlass
    Posts: 6,788Member
    Wow. I WAS eating breakfast and reading this. Not any more! Thanks guys...
    I remember getting a stinky belly button when I lost a stone in a week after giving birth, but I think it was cause my milk was falling into it (grosss!) My belly was like concave and my boobs were spectacularly ginormous. It smelt like, you know when you have a newborn and they spit up a tiny bit of milk onto a bib, then you take off that bib and throw it into the changing bag, then forget about it for 2 weeks? Yeah, that.
    "Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter." - Dr. Seuss
  • AnonUser27
    Posts: 1,742Guest
    Sorry about your breakfast @irishlass!!
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