I would say none of those - just open the windows. Around here, that does it better than anything else.

Of course, I live in California, so if you have three feet of snow on the ground, maybe you feel differently. But still, opening doors and windows for a few minutes and waving the air through, maybe with a fan, wouldn't hurt.

I love Yankee Candles too, but our family is one-income, so we rarely have Yankee candles around. I still want my house to smell nice, so here are a few ways to do just that, and keep your money in your account.

First, After you eat an orange, you can throw the peel down the garbage disposal, your kitchen will smell lovely.

Baking soda mixed with a few drops of your favorite essential oil makes a great air freshener, it can also be sprinkled on carpets and then vacuumed up.

If you mix a little baking soda, and a little vanilla extract or essential oil with water in a spray bottle you have your own spray air freshener.

You can put many different things in a crockpot or potpourri warmer with some water and a couple of drops of vegetable oil and make your house smell lovely. Some suggestions, apples, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and citrus peels. Find the concoction that smells the best to you!

Cedar blocks are very fragrant. If you find they are losing their smell, a light sanding brings them right back to life.

Applesauce and cinnamon mixed together in equal parts can be cut with cookie cutters and left to dry. Once the shapes are dry, they can be strategically placed around rooms. They can last for years, and never lose their smell.

If you just want to get rid of odors, but don't want a particular smell, a little white vinegar will take the bad smell out of anything, and the vinegar smell lasts just a couple of minutes.

I have a houseful of animals (well, three cats and a dog), so I usually keep a Febreze Noticeables plug-in going. I also have some scented oil for putting in oil burners around and will occasionally fill an empty Noticeables with two different scents of that.

But that only does a couple of rooms. For the best performance overall, I put some scented powder in my vacuum cleaner. It leaves a nice fresh scent behind when I vacuum. You can also just put baking soda in your vacuum bag if you just want to leave a clean, rather than scented, smell.

OlivaO, how do you fill Febreze Noticeables with scented oil? I am wondering because I have an empty Noticeable and I also have sandalwood oil that is meant to be used with the little oil pots you heat with tea candles. Do you plug them in then? Is it safe or might the oil cause a fire.

I've never had a problem with it. I made sure I bought oil that said, "Use with oil warmer," and I think all the Noticeables are is an oil warmer, only electric instead of candle-powered.

I take off the plastic nozzle on top and then use an eyedropper to fill the container. I think it takes 10 eyedroppers to fill it. Then I just put the plastic nozzle back on and put it in the warmer.

Try it with your warmer on "low" on a day when you aren't going anywhere, just in case. That's what I did the first day, and when there weren't any problems, I was able to relax and just let it run.

I love the idea of cedar blocks and then sanding them to refresh the scent. What a great idea. Cedar wood, along with sandalwood, is one of my favorite scents. Thanks for the tip.