Reparieren statt wegwerfen

If you need a no-water option for any secondhand item that can’t be washed, like cashmere or books* etc:

Take a plastic bin with a lid that’s several times larger than the stinky thing. Sprinkle some baking soda in the bottom.

Loosely crumple and ball individual sheets of non-glossy newspaper until it fills the bottom of the bin.

Place the stinky thing on top of the layer of crumpled newspaper, and add another loose layer on top and around it.

Close the bin and set it in a sunny spot.

Throughout the day give it a little gentle shake so the baking soda in the bottom gets stirred a bit.

It can take a few days, and you’ll have faster success if you take it out in the evening and let it air outside then use fresh newspaper and baking soda in the bin when you put it in the sun again the next day.

*For books: Lay them inside opened and change up which page it is opened to once in a while so the funk and humidity etc have an easier time escaping.