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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Admirable-Patience55 on 2025-05-29 08:55:29+00:00.

First time homeowners, but I still can’t believe I overlooked this.

It’s our second night sleeping in our condo and I’m just now realizing our bedroom window is right next to the dumpster.

We love sleeping with the window open and feeling the crisp air… but I noticed a bad smell tonight. I looked everywhere and couldn’t figure it out. Then after hours thinking I was imagining it, I looked outside our bedroom window and looked down (our condo is on the second story) and realized the dumpster is right outside our bedroom window.

I really messed up overlooking this. Now I can’t sleep… like I can’t stop thinking about the fact that I’m smelling the neighborhood trash pile outside. It’s not just the bedroom either, it’s the entire apartment. I do have a sensitive sense of smell, but my partner can also smell it in our room.

We’re in LA County, so our tiny condo wasn’t cheap and it was an uphill battle to get it after all the fires everywhere here. So we’re locked in for a good while.

How could I have not noticed this? I don’t think it smelled before. Crossing my fingers that someone just threw away something extra stinky tonight and that this isn’t the norm. 😩

TLDR - Today I fucked up by buying an apartment with a stinky dumpster right outside my bedroom window that stinks up the place.