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We here at Repell-em want to wish all of you a very happy and safe Fourth of July!

You’ll have more fun at your cook-out if you use Repell-em products to keep all the bugs away.  The dog and cat won’t bother anyone on the deck, either, if you’ve got a Repell-em trash bag set up out there.

The red Repell-em products make a nice patriotic touch at your picnic, too.

Be sure to cut off a few little strips and tie them around everybody’s ankle and wrist for extra protection against the insects.

There will be no uninvited buzzing, biting pests at your barbecue if you put Repell-em products out there, too!  With a Repell-em tablecloth on the table, and a Repell-em trash bag for all the garbage, your outdoor party will be absolutely bite-sting-buzz-itch FREE!

We plant our tomatoes in a railroad flat, and every year we fight Mother Nature and all her minions for the fruits of our labor. I’m not sure who gets more tomatoes: Bambi and his mother, or all the nasty little worms and insects that feast on the tomatoes and then devour the plants down to the roots.

As you can see, this year I’m fighting back. The cat (her name is Millicent) won’t go near the flat, and so far, neither Bambi nor his mother, nor any of their woodland friends have bothered the plants.

As you can see, each tomato cage has been wound with a strip of Repell-em, and between the scent, the ends waving in the breeze, and the large Repell-em piece acting as a scarecrow there on the end, I really believe we’re going to get some tomatoes for ourselves this year.

I don’t have to worry about “insect repellent” touching my food and contaminating it in any way, because Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely harmless.

The cats were used to playing in that railroad flat all winter, and it’s really funny to watch them go running toward it and then stop short, look around with a bewildered expression, and then turn and walk away.

Here’s a closer shot of a few tomato cages, so you can see in greater detail what I’ve done with the strips of Repell-em. It’s nothing fancy, obviously, but so far it’s working like a charm!

There are so many uses for your Repell-em products. So far, every experiment I’ve done with them has been successful!

I promised you all a picture of my garden with Repell-em woven all around the tomato cages, but I’ll have to pass on that until Wednesday.  I live in Indiana, you see, and the never-ceasing rain has really thrown a monkey wrench into any photo ops I may have had planned!

Surely by Wednesday’s post, I’ll be able to go back there and take a picture for you.  It’s really quite attractive!

In the meantime, I will give you this:  I feed my cats in the kitchen, and for the past two days, not one of the three has gone near their food OR water bowl!

I finally figured it out.  I had gathered up all the newspapers and put them in a Repell-em bag and set the bag in front of the patio doors, BESIDE THE CATS’S DISHES!

No wonder the cats wouldn’t go near enough to even grab a light snack!

Repell-em products really work.  I mean to say, Repell-em products REALLY, REALLY WORK!

Stay tuned for some pictures.

I put tomato cages on all my tomato plants this afternoon, and I decided to try another experiment with Repell-em trash bags while I was out in the garden.  I don’t have to worry about Repell-em products touching food, because Repell-em is 100% natural.
I already have a Repell-em bag on a stick, waving around in the breeze and scaring all the birds and animals away.   But as I was working, I thought,  it’s not always going to be breezy, and one Repell-em scarecrow in the middle of the plot might not be enough.  I need to put some Repell-em bags in my garden in such a way that each individual tomato plant will be protected against, not only deer, possums and raccoons, but also the bugs and worms.

So, I wove a Repell-em bag around and around each individual tomato cage.

The results was actually very pretty, and I KNOW nothing will bother my garden now!

On Monday, if it ever stops raining here, I’ll post a picture of my pretty, decorated tomato cages.  In the meantime, Bambi and his mother and all of his relatives, along with Thumper and all the pesky critters that never had names, had better steer clear of my garden.

When they get close to it now, they’ll turn tail and run away.  I’ve seen it happen.

Thank you, Repell-em!!!  You’ve passed every test I’ve given you!!!!

I was almost out of Repell-em trash bags today! This is a disaster, especially in the summer when the bugs are at their peak, and I knew if I ordered them online as I usually do, they wouldn’t get here before I ran out!

I always get my Repell-em products in approximately three days, which is FAST SERVICE, but I also knew I had only two bags left and I had to do something. There is NO WAY I’m going to use an inferior trash bag after discovering how fantastic Repell-em bags are!

I knew that I could buy Repell-em products at Cabela’s, but there isn’t one in this town. However, Repell-em products are worth driving a few miles for, so that’s what I did this afternoon.

When I asked the Cabela’s clerk where the Repell-em bags were, he told me and then he said, “A lot of people are asking for those; I’ll have to try them myself!”

I told him that would be a very smart move on his part. I know I’ll never use any other kind of trash bag again.

In the summer, we usually keep a large trash can out on the deck.  That’s where we deposit the watermelon rinds, corn husks, tomato peelings, etc, so they don’t mess up the kitchen.

The giant trash can used to have a lid but that blew off in the last windstorm and split down the middle, so there’s just a big open trash can out there.

You can imagine the problems that caused before I started using Repell-em trash bags exclusively: my deck was like a big possum buffet.  I spent many boring, tedious, and embarrassing hours crawling around my yard, picking up the bits of garbage that the wildlife had rejected.

Now, however, even with the lid gone, my garbage sits on the deck completely and 100% unmolested!  I’m embarrassed to admit to you how many watermelon and canteloupe rinds are in that trash bin as I type, and I’ve long since lost count of the corncobs.

I don’t have to worry or even think about that stuff now.  Repell-em trash bags have made my life so much simpler and better; there just aren’t enough positive things I could say about these products.

Try them.  You’ll love them too!

When the weather is nice, I like to drive to the high school and walk around the track.  I’ve been walking every night this week, in fact.

The problem is, I’m not the only one who loves this warm, breezy weather.  The bugs like it, too.  I came home from the track those first few nights covered with mosquito bites.  I hate that!

Then I thought, Hmmm, I put a little strip of Repell-em around my ankle and wrist when I work in the garden. . . I bet it would work for walking the track, too!

And it did.

I’ve tried smelly insect repellents for track-walking in the past, and I hate them.  Oh, they work, but at what cost?  A lot more than a strip of Repell-em costs, that’s for sure, but even more than that?

Repell-em smells good, and that little strip doesn’t drown out the honeysuckle! Don’t worry about Repell-em touching your skin, either; Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients and will not harm you.

There are so many uses for Repell-em products.  And so far, everything I’ve tried with Repell-em has worked like a charm!

I read in a gardening magazine that putting a brightly-colored cloth on a pole and placing it in the middle and both ends of your garden will keep away the animals.  I’m going to try it this year, because last year, the deer ate almost everything!

However, my “scarecrows” won’t be made of cloth; I’m going to put Repell-em trash bags on poles and let them guard my tomatoes and green peppers.

Not only will the red Repell-em bag, flapping in the wind, keep all the animals away, it will also keep all the bugs away!

P.S.  I threw a Repell-em trash bag, full of corncobs and rib bones, in the back of our pickup truck three days ago, and nothing’s bothered it yet!

My husband and I decided that this one sunny day of the entire month of June (so far) should be spent weeding out the completely out-of-control raised vegetable bed in the back yard.

It’s made of railroad ties, and it’s about two feet wide and fifteen feet long.  Until an hour ago, it was surrounded on all sides by weeds as tall as two feet.  We had to step on those to get to the even taller weeds INSIDE our railroad flat.  Finally, the job was done.

It’s late to plant but what can you do when every single day the skies have literally broken open and POURED rain for weeks and weeks?

Now, what does this have to do with Repell-em products?  PLENTY!  In the past, we’ve had to wear long pants, and put a rubber band around our ankles, and spray stinky smelly dangerous insect repellent all over our bodies, to keep the chiggers away.

Don’t laugh.  Chiggers bite, and they bite HARD, and the bites itch and ache and last for days and days.

Today, we just tied little strips of Repellem around our ankles and went to work.

It’s been an hour, and so far, no evidence of any chigger attacks whatsoever.

Not only do I use Repell-em, and only Repell-em, products in my home, I also use Repell-em products for all kinds of other reasons!  Bug-free gardening is only one  of them!  On Wednesday, I’ll tell you how I use Repell-em products in the garden itself.  NO BUGS!  NO BUGS ON MY TOMATOES!

A business with an enthusiastic, helpful, knowledgeable boss is a business that’s bound to be a success!  Repell-em’s president, Terry Feinberg, knows every inch and every step of Repell-em, and even though he’s the BIG BOSS, he’s happy to help a customer in any way.  Just ask Marie Gagnon!

Repell-em reader Marie Gagnon was planning a large catered outdoor graduation party at a local park, and was concerned about the flies.  She contacted Repell-em to see about ordering some tablecloths, but she only had a few days before her big party!  She asked about overnight shipping, and was told that YES, WE CAN!  And we DID!  Terry was happy to help her with her order, and when Marie asked for her order’s tracking numbers and other information, Terry sent that to her, also.  No problem whatsoever!

Marie then wrote to us to say that her party was very successful, and that the Repell-em tablecloths and trash bags were partially responsible for that success.  After all, an outdoor party without insects would be a very nice outdoor party!

Marie was also very appreciative of the time Terry Feinberg spent with her, explaining about the product and encouraging her to ask questions which he was happy to answer.

Yes, when the BIG BOSS of a business still takes the time to help a customer out like Terry does, well, you just KNOW that’s a business that has its priorities straight.

Repell-em not only makes a superior product that does exactly what it claims to do, Repell-em also has a president who is proud of his product and who will go that extra mile for a customer.

I don’t use ANY outdoor tablecloths or trash bags except Repell-em.  No other product can begin to compare.  Repell-em outclasses them all!

And, there are NO BUGS in my house!