Repell-em Blog

School has already started for many children, and will start after Labor Day for a few more.  New clothes, new pencils, new lunchboxes, and new shoes are being unwrapped in many households right now.

When you put your child’s new shoes in his/her closet, remember to put a new Repell-em trash bag or tablecloth in the back or bottom of the closet, too.  Brown recluse spiders love to nest in the bottoms of closets, and particularly inside shoes.   If a child, or you, puts a foot inside a shoe and disturbs a brown recluse, it will bite, and the bite of a brown recluse spider is horrible, and can take YEARS to heal.

Simply avoid this possibility by using Repell-em products as preventative medicine in your closets.  Repell-em products smell so good to humans; they smell like expensive candles or sachets, in fact.  Having that Repell-em bag or tablecloth in your closet will not only keep the spiders away; it will also protect your expensive clothing from moths and other insects.

Put some Repell-em in your closet.  You’ll be glad you did.

I hadn’t used my suitcase since last May.  When I brought it upstairs from its storage place in the garage, I had to kill a few spiders that had taken up residence in there before I could use it.

When I put it back on the garage shelf after returning home, I did some serious thinking.  You have to understand that I HATE BUGS!!  ALL BUGS.  Yes, I know spiders aren’t bugs, but they’re close enough.

Then I thought, DOH.  Repell-em!!!

So before I stored my suitcase away, last May, I put a Repell-em trash bag in it.

I’m going to San Francisco tomorrow, to the BlogHer conference.  I needed my suitcase again.  I wondered what I’d find when I opened it.

It was actually no surprise that not a single insect of any kind was in that suitcase.  In fact, the inside of my suitcase has never smelled so good!

Mmmm.  Some people put a sachet in their luggage.  From now on, I’m just going to put a Repell-em trash bag in mine.  The good smell lasts longer, and it repels bugs.  Whatta deal!

Ever since I saw a Discovery Channel show about brown recluse spiders in shoes, I’ve been a little paranoid about shaking each shoe, HARD, and making absolutely sure there are no residents in it, before I put it on. If you’d seen that woman’s foot, so would you.

That might explain why, when I saw that little brown spider come crawling out of my closet tonight, I let out a bit of a yelp and went running to the kitchen for my Repell-em bags.

What? Why is keeping my shoes in a Repell-em bag any odder than keeping shoes in one of those tower shoe racks that holds a hundred pairs, right at eye-level?

A little advice, shoe horses: shake your shoes before you put them on. Spiders love to live inside shoes, and your shoe rack is a free-rent condo to a spider. And his family and friends.

MY shoes, however, are safe now. No spider will come near them. Repell-em products really do live up to their name: they REPEL pretty much everything you DON’T want near you or anything you own.

Plus, they smell great. It’s like having a sachet in my closet. I love it.

Thanks again, Repell-em. I use you all over my house and yard, and so far, you’ve been PERFECT.

It gets really humid in southern Indiana in the summertime.  Sometimes the sheets and towels feel damp even when they’re fresh out of the dryer and still warm!  After they’ve been folded, and have been in the linen closet for a while, they feel even damper.  This, as you might expect, tends to attract insects.

Not this summer, though!  Even though the worst of the mugginess hasn’t really begun yet, I’m ready.

This afternoon, I put a Repell-em trash bag against the back wall of all three shelves in my linen closet.  Not only will it make my sheets and towels smell wonderful, it will keep those disgusting summer bugs that feed on humidity-soaked linens out of my closet!

How good does a Repell-em trash bag smell?  If I tell you that I also put one in my lingerie drawer, would that answer your question?

Spring is here, and it’s time to hang your heavy winter coats in the closet and forget about them until next winter!

Summer is also the season for moths and other insects that can damage your heavy woolens badly.  There are many ways to keep your winter clothing safe from insects, but most of these methods are expensive, smelly, and often downright dangerous!

Why not just slip a Repell-em trash bag over your winter coat before you hang it up for the summer?  Repell-em trash bags are fantastic suit-bags, for example; I’ve heard from many readers who cover their prom dresses with a Repell-em bag before hanging them away.

It’s also very effective to put a Repell-em bag over the top of folded sweaters before you store the box in the back of the closet or under the bed.

Clothing is expensive, and we certainly don’t want our hard-earned money devoured by moths, silverfish, and other cloth-loving little bugs.

With Repell-em in your closet, that just won’t EVER HAPPEN!

Repell-em products can be used for many things other than what’s on the package, you know. Repell-em trash bags, for example, can be used inside the house to keep animals off the furniture and insects out of the closets. Pieces of Repell-em products can be put here and there in a kitchen to keep away the ants and the ladybug beetles.

You can store your suits and rarely-worn gowns in Repell-em bags; why waste your money on expensive clothing storage bags when all you need is a Repell-em bag?

I could go on forever about all the amazing uses one can put a Repell-em product to, but for this post, I am going to focus on something my mother told me just a few minutes ago, over the phone.

She told me that she had used the Repell-em sample bags I’d given her, but that she didn’t use them for trash.

She used them to keep the squirrels away from her newly-planted gladioli bulbs.

She cut the bags into narrow strips and put a strip between the rows of bulbs. Usually, she told me, the squirrels are on her bulbs like piranha on a cow’s hind leg, but this time, she said, the squirrels didn’t even seem to be aware that there were nice fresh tasty gladioli bulbs in her garden.

I told her the Repell-em bags were repelling the squirrels.

She’s telling all her friends.

Something unforseen happened to the Repell-em trash bag that’s been sitting out on my deck for well over a week. My husband didn’t realize that I was conducting an experiment, and after possums tore into the Glad and Hefty bags and scattered garbage and trash all over the deck late last night, he swept it all up and put it, plus the Repell-em bag, in the back of his truck and took it all to the dump.

I can tell you that even after all this time, the Repell-em bag was still untouched, but I have no picture to show you because the Repell-em bag is now at the county dump, where I have no doubts whatsoever that it’s still intact, and still repelling animals who consider the dump a four-star restaurant.

I have never tried a new product that I liked as much as I like Repell-em products. Not only does everything Repell-em work beautifully when used as directed -trash bags as trash bags, eg - but they also have countless other uses as well! Sure, you can put your garbage in them, but you can also hang a Repell-em bag in your closet to keep out moths and mice; you can put a folded Repell-em bag under your silverware tray to keep out ants and roaches, and you can store suits and evening dresses in Repell-em bags to keep them fresh and moth-free.

Repell-em bags keep away spiders and bees and mosquitoes. The Repell-em tablecloths are perfect for a completely insect-free outdoor meal, and so safe, you can still eat any food that might drop off your fork onto the table!

Tomorrow, I’ll bag up the leftover beef stew, cornbread, and empty out all those pizza boxes, and throw the corncobs in a new Repell-em bag and begin experimenting again. I bought some new brands of trash bags at Wal-Mart tonight, to add to the Hefty and Glad bags. I have a feeling that the Repell-em bags are going to out-perform them ALL!

Response to the Repell-em Contest has been fantastic! We’ve extended the deadline, so there’s still time to enter!

You know, if you’re on the lookout for a unique Valentine’s Day gift for your outdoorsy sweetheart, or maybe just your sweetheart-who-hates-bugs-and-mice, don’t forget that Repell-em bags are red. Like a Valentine. Hey, not everyone is into candy and jewels!

Later in the month, we’re going to start quoting some of the many entrants’ clever and creative ’takes’ on Repell-em products. We’ve even got poets among us! It’s wonderful! It’s fantastic! We’re so proud and glad to be sending free stuff to these great people!

Entrants, please remember that we will be asking you for your mailing address when the contest is over, so we can send your freebies to you. We won’t be selling, sharing, or abusing your address in any way, so please don’t worry about that part of it.

After a few days of sub-zero weather, it’s been like spring here again. This makes me long for April and the REAL springtime, which also makes me think about new and different ways to use my Repell-em products. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Repell-em bags work GREAT for their intended purpose, but there are so many additional uses for them, too!

The thickest, toughest, most expensive regular trash bag in the world won’t keep away the stray dogs if you set it out the night before the garbage truck comes along, but Repell-em bags will. A Hefty bag in your closet won’t help the moth, spider, insect, or mouse situation in there, either. Repell-em bags will keep all of those things out of your stuff.

If you haven’t entered our contest yet, please do so. But only if you love free stuff and hate having your clothing, shoes, and body invaded by vermin and creepy crawlie things and the neighbor’s undisciplined dogs. If you like being covered with mosquito bites and having to shake mouse poop out of your shoes every morning, continue using those flimsy white plastic trash bags.

How many of you have ever discovered something like this? Your favorite sweater, ruined by moths! This, even after you were so careful to pack mothballs with your woolens!

There’s an easier, MUCH better-smelling way, to keep moths away from your expensive sweaters, blankets, and other woolens. Just put a Repell-em trash bag in with each package of stored woolens, and the moths will leave everything strictly alone.

Not packed-away season? Just hang a Repell-em bag in the closet and no moth will come near your clothing. Another Repell-em bag in the linen closet, and your expensive blankets and towels will be safe, too! Put a small Repell-em bag under the plastic with your good suits, wedding dresses, and any clothing you keep stored for a season or all eternity; nothing will bother them if Repell-em is on the job.

Besides moths, the Repell-em bags will also keep the mice and the cockroaches and any other creepy rodent or insect away, too.

Your clothing will be safe, and you’ll never get the unpleasant surprise of unfolding a favorite garment only to find that it’s been moth-eaten.

Mothballs smell so gross, too, and your clothing and linens end up smelling the same. But if you use Repell-em products to keep your clothing and linens vermin and insect-free, you’ll notice that your sweaters and blankets have a very pleasant odor.

Unless there’s something in there that truly repels, the moths will find a way to get into your stored woolens, no matter how tightly you may think you’ve sealed them up. With a Repell-em bag in the box, the moths won’t come near.