Repell-em Blog

We read about bedbugs in novels about pioneers. We read about bedbugs being found in unkempt hotel beds. We read about bedbugs in OTHER people’s homes but never ours.

The fact is, however, that bedbugs are back, and they’ve brought reinforcements the likes and numbers of which have never been seen before. Bedbugs are being found in schools, offices, hospitals, daycare, inns, hotels, motels . . . some of the cleanest-looking places in the world are finding bedbugs!

We usually associate bedbugs with, well, beds, but they have other places they love to hide, too. Your clothes and shoes, for example. Your coat closet. Your boots. Your mittens. Your towels, and linen closets. Your drains and electrical outlets. Your baseboards. Blankets. Pillows. Matresses.

Most charitable places no longer accept anything that’s upholstered any more, because bedbugs love your chairs, and sofas. They love your carpets.

They love your car, and your baby’s carseat.

They love your kitchen cabinets. They dance in your dishes when you’re not looking. They scamper among your silverware when the drawer is closed.

My community has been notified of several infestations, but in my house, we haven’t noticed any bedbugs, at least not yet. I have no scientific conclusion to draw, but I do know this: There are EcoSmartPlastics and Repellem bags in all of my closets and cabinets. There are Repellem bags between my mattress and box springs. Repellem bags hang in all of my closets, and there are wadded strips of Repellem bags in all of my drawers.

When I packed away my Christmas decorations and trees, everything was placed in a large Repellem trash bag and securely tied. The sweet, pleasant fragrance of Repellem permeates my house today; it smells better than many expensive candles.

I credit EcoSmartPlastics and Repellem products for my home’s total lack of bedbugs. Oh, and there are no roaches, ants, weevils, or moths here, either. No mice. And when I set the trash out on the deck, it’s completely unmolested.

There is no way I would EVER use another kind of trash bag in my home again. EcoSmartPlastics and Repellem products have won my loyalty, 100%, and everylasting.

For several years now, I’ve used a Repellem tablecloth as a Christmas tree skirt.  I have three cats, you see, and all those dangling ornaments were a temptation too awesome to pass by.

With that Repellem tree skirt, though, the cats ignore the tree completely.  The 100% natural ingredients in Repellem products create an aura that makes animals unable to sense the presence of objects that would normally be fodder for devouring and messing up or scattering all over the place.

Not now.  My Repellem tree skirt keeps my Christmas tree safe and intact.

My next-door neighbor was visiting earlier this week.  She has two small children and another on the way, and was really anxious to get her decorations and tree up before she had the baby.  With a new puppy and two cats living in her house, though, she didn’t know what to do.  “What if the animals or toddlers knock my tree down while I’m in the hospital?”  she asked me.

I gave her one of my Repellem tablecloths, and now her tree is up and she says the dogs & cats haven’t come near it.  The children are still interested, but they, at least, can understand what “Get away from that tree!” means!

I also told her what our “neighbor on the other side” has been doing for the past couple of Christmases; she wrapped an empty box in bright red Repellem, stuck a big white bow on it,  and put it under her tree with the rest of the gifts.  That smallish Repellem-wrapped box is sufficient to keep all the rest of her gifts AND her tree safe from her curious dogs and small children.

With small children, we all want things that are 100% safe to use around kids.  Repellem certainly fits that description!

Remember, too, that if you have a real evergreen tree, Repellem will also keep the insects away from it and out of it.

It’s almost time to get those winter coats and warm sweaters out of storage!  If you packed them away in Ecosmart Plastics and Repellem bags, you’ll find that your winter woolens are clean, absolutely free of insects of any kind, and ready to wear in the snow and cold weather!

Now it’s time to pack away your summer things, and EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem bags are perfect for that, too! Just make sure all clothing is clean and completely dry before packing it away.  Put everything in Repellem bags, tie them off securely, and stuff ‘em under the bed or in the back of the closet, and don’t give them another thought.  No moths, spiders, mice, or any other pesky insect or rodent will even know they’re back there, because the 100% biodegradable, environmentally sound Ecosmart Plastics and Repellem bags are infused with natural ingredients that render them invisible and undetectable to almost all insects and animals!

In other words, your winter coats and clothing that have been packed away all summer in Repellem bags will be ready-to-wear, and your summer things will be safe and insect-free all winter long.

Packing your seasonal clothing in EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem bags is soooo much cheaper than storing them at the cleaner’s all season, and when it’s time to unpack and use them again, your clothing, blankets, etc, will still be absolutely clean and ready to use.

Using Repellem bags for storage is far safer than using mothballs or other chemicals to keep insects away from your woolens, too.  Your house and your small children are infinitely safer in an EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem household!

If you’ve been looking for some Ecosmart Repellem products, here are a few places you’ll definitely find them!

The Eco-Shop is a source for Ecosmart Repellem products.

You can find Ecosmart Repellem products at The Vitamin Shoppe, too!

There’s a CVS Pharmacy on almost every corner in town; you’re in there all the time, so why not pick up some EcosmartPlastics SmartBags while you’re there?

While you’re looking for music and movies on Amazon, order some EcosmartPlastics products as well!

It might be autumn now, but the weather is still perfect for a cookout!  Make sure your picnic table is insect-free with an EcosmartPlastics Repellem tablecloth!  HomeTrends is a great place to get your Repellem tablecloth!

You can get EcosmartPlastics products at BluePod, too.

And now I’ll tell you a secret:  I get my EcosmartPlastics and Repellem products at Alice.com.  It’s so easy, because that’s where I get most of my other households products.

Make your home greener, cleaner, and safer with EcosmartPlastics, Repellem, and SmartBags products.  Our products will make your home a better environment in which to live and to raise your children.

Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to have an end-of-the-summer cookout!  And while it might be very true that this time of year is very hot and humid in many areas (here, for example) and that insects love to crawl, fly, and hover around anything they perceive as “edible” at any time and especially so in weather conditions like these, with an EcoSmartPlastics and Repellem trash bag and tablecloth at your picnic, you’ll have nothing whatsoever to worry about.

Try it yourself.  Remember, Ants, gnats, flies, and bees can smell your fried chicken and potato salad from miles away, and they tend to pass the word along to all of their friends, and what does that mean? It means you’re sharing your chocolate cake and lemonade with bugs.

Of course, if you’re using a Repell-em tablecloth on your outdoor table, you won’t have to worry about bugs at all. Even if they smell your food, they won’t come near it because the tablecloth REPELS them.

Don’t worry about any “dangerous” pesticides or poisons in the tablecloth, either. That tablecloth is so safe, you could lay your chicken leg right on it and spoon your baked beans from it and you’d be just fine. Your mom would smack your hand for being rude, but you’d deserve it. The point is, you wouldn’t suffer ANY effects from it! Other than what your mom doles out, that is.

Repell-em products are all-natural, remember? There is nothing in them that could hurt a human in any way. They smell GOOD to humans, too.

It’s just the animal kingdom that finds Repell-em products repulsive. That’s a GOOD thing!

Not only are EcoSmartPlastics and Repellem products extremely effective at keeping almost any bug or animal away, the products are also sturdy and strong, and can be used and re-used many times.  For example, we’re cooking out tomorrow, and the bright red Repellem tablecloth we’ll be using has already been used twice for our summer cookouts.  In other words, not only is the plastic super strong, the repellant that’s in it is also super strong, and lasts for weeks.

Bon appetite, y’all.  And a bug-free Labor Day cookout to you all.

We’re painting this month - every room in the house except one.  Here in southern Indiana, we’ve been under a Heat Advisory almost every day, and lately the high-nineties temps have been accompanied by severe humidity alerts as well.

There is no air conditioning in the house we’re painting, so all the windows are open and fans are running.  The problem with opening windows, especially when there are no screens, is that the insects consider that an open invitation to enter.

This summer’s severe heat and humidity have been good news for bugs.  In the evenings, we can hear huge swarms buzzing and humming and making whatever insect noises insects make.  If we go outside for even a few minutes, we’re covered by masses of mosquitoes; the bites are incredible!

When we first started painting, we were getting bugs in the paint on the walls.  I really don’t want to move into a house with insects embedded in the paint, so we didn’t know what to do at first.

Then I thought, if Ecosmart Plastics & Repellem products do such a good job under normal circumstances, would they also work for this not-quite-so-normal circumstance?

So I brought some Repellem trash bags to the new house and put a strip of one across each window.  That was Saturday.  Today is Monday, and there are no bugs in the house now.

I’m serious.  Wide open, screenless windows, wet paint, and no bugs.

I recommend this procedure highly!

Look closely at my tomato garden and you will see that 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.  The deer have been using that garden patch as a salad bar all winter, but now that there is actual food in it, they behave as though they can’t even see or smell it.  That’s because they can’t.  The EcoSmartPlastics Repellem strips have rendered my tomatoes unplottable!

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!

All the climate scientists are reminding us that this summer’s batch of insects is the worst in a long, long time, but EcoSmartPlastics Repellem can ensure that your cookouts and picnics are bug-free, too.  And if you go for a pleasant summer walk, make it even more pleasant by tying a strip of Repellem around your ankle and wrist.  You’ll stroll absolutely unmolested by mosquitoes, gnats, chiggers, and any other summer blood-sucking pest.

EcoSmart Repellem products are almost like magic; they work so well, and are completely harmless.  Amazing!

. . . and grilling time means outdoors time.  This extra-humid and extra-pollen-ish summer has more than its share of happy and excited bugs, but when we had a cookout this past weekend, we weren’t bothered a bit by insects - not a single, tiny bit.

We didn’t use any dangerous bug sprays or smelly candles, either.  It’s not good to use poisons around food, pets, or children, and a typical cookout has all three.  All we did was put an Ecosmartplastics’ Repellem tablecloth on both round deck tables, and a couple of Repellem trash bags in the wastebaskets.  We’d need tablecloths and trash bags anyway; why not use the best: products that not only serve their usual purpose, but also keep away almost every kind of insect imaginable?

Our cooking could have been plagued with insects, attracted by the sweat, blood, and smells of the cooking food, but it wasn’t.  We didn’t have to sit at the table eating with one hand and swatting bugs away with the other.

We didn’t have to sit and put up with the overwhelming odor of anti-bug skin sprays or citronella candles, either.  All we smelled was food.

Ecosmartplastics Repellem and Eco-Smartbag products are versatile and so very, very useful.  Why put up with insects at your picnic when you can keep them away with a tablecloth?  Why put up with mice and roaches in your kitchen trash can when you can keep them away with a trash bag?

I have used Ecosmartplastics Repellem and Eco-Smartbag products ever since I first heard of them several years ago.  They are far superior to any other kind of plastic product I’ve ever used, and they are the ONLY ones that keep away insects and wild animals.   100% biodegradable and made of 100% natural products, Repellem tablecloths and trash bags will turn your buggy summers into insect-free vacations.

The prediction for the summer of 2010 is formidable:  more pollen than most people can remember, more humidity than we’ve seen in years, and more bugs.  A lot more bugs.

Ecosmartplastics Repellem can’t do anything about the pollen or the humidity, but if you use these fantastic products, you certainly won’t have to worry about or deal with the bugs!

Already, in the evenings, there’s a haze of those disgusting little biting midges, but on my deck, there are none.  My deck is like an island of purity on these spring nights, which are, in southern Indiana, already muggy and buzzy.  The neighborhood cats are starting to hang out on our big deck swing, so they don’t have to nap amidst the bugs!

How did I do this?  What complicated procedure did I use to make my deck so pleasant and insect-free?  Oh, it was difficult, all right.  I tied two Ecosmartplastics Repellem trash bags around the sidebars of the swing.

That’s all.  No poisons, no sprays, no traps.  Just two red Repellem trash bags tied around the swing.  I’ll change them every two weeks or so, all summer long.  With Ecosmartplastics Repellem, I don’t have to worry about the cats chewing on them - animals don’t like to get too near a Repellem products - or toddlers chewing on them - Repellem products are 100% natural, recyclable, and GREEN, even though they’re red. 

Harmless to all living things, Repellem simply repels.  It doesn’t kill.

My deck will be bug-free all summer.  Yours can be, too.  Order your Ecosmartplastics Repellem bags here.

It’s spring, and the weather has been just simply beautiful in southern Indiana these past few days!  We got out the lawn chairs, hosed them off, and set them out on the deck to dry.  We had no sooner turned our backs to go back inside than we heard a buzzing sound.  Turning around, we saw that the bees had discovered our water-soaked chairs.

We have kids and pets, so we don’t use dangerous chemicals or sprays.  However, since we discovered Ecosmartplastics Repellem, we don’t need to.

Tim went outside and tied a strip of Ecosmartplastics Repellem trash bag to the back legs of each lawn chair.

Within minutes, the bees were gone.  Oh, they were still alive, and busy fertilizing flowers and fruit trees and going about their beesiness, but they were no longer on our deck keeping us from sitting in our own chairs.

Ecosmartplastics Repellem & Eco-Smartbag products are the most effective and earth-friendly products you can use, for they keep all insects and small animals away, but their 100% natural ingredients and 100% recyclability make them environmentally safe.

Don’t worry about a small child or pet chewing on the Repellem strips, either; they’re completely harmless.

 You can find Ecosmartplastics Repellem & Eco-Smartbag products at these fine stores and websites.