Repell-em Blog

I just set my trash out on the deck - four bags of garbage, sitting out on the deck, way out in the country, right next to a rather large woods.

Ordinarily, the smell of the garbage would lure every possum, raccoon, skunk, deer, fox, and insect to my patio door and I would spend an hour or more the next morning picking up the remains.

But now I use Repell-em trash bags, and I don’t have to worry about animals or bugs at all any more.  My trash will be, in the morning, exactly as it is right now.

Repell-em trash bags are red, which animals can’t see well, and they are made of 100% natural ingredients, the combination of which repels almost all animals and insects completely.

I love you, Repell-em products.

I have two cats, and keeping them out of the trash used to be an ongoing trial in this house.  They went after the garbage in the kitchen wastebasket constantly, and when the bag was full and I tied it off and put it on the floor before tossing it out on the deck before putting it in the back of the pickup truck before hauling it off to the dump (Are you following me?  You’re not lost, are you?) the cats would bite and tear through the bag to get to the yummy spoiling goodness inside.

Ever since I started using Repell-em trash bags, the cats have left the kitchen trash completely alone.  They don’t smell it and they don’t see it.  This is a wonderful thing for me, because picking up trash and bits of garbage the cats left strewn about on my kitchen floor, and constantly re-bagging the garbage because the cats tore it apart, was really getting old.  REALLY old.

Now, nothing bothers the kitchen trash, and nothing bothers the tied-off trash bags no matter WHERE they are.  Using Repell-em bags in my kitchen not only keeps the animals away from the garbage, it also keep the insects out of my kitchen!

Thank you, Repell-em!

My daughter drove all the way down here today to “borrow” four Repell-em trash bags from me.  (I think I know what I’m getting her for her birthday this summer!)

She’s going to be out of town, and wants to set her trash out the night before instead of the morning of.  She can’t do that with regular trash bags because of all the dogs, cats, raccoons, and possums in her apartment complex.

That’s right; you heard me.  In southern Indiana, there are raccoons and possums  even in the city.  They’re everywhere. There is no escape from them.  And if you don’t play your cards right, they will tear into your garbage and spread it everywhere, causing you great hardship and even harsh fines if you don’t get it cleaned up absolutely right away.

My daughter doesn’t want to save her garbage for a week, and I don’t blame her - I raised her to not like to dwell in the midst of garbage - hence her 30-mile drive to get the Repell-em bags.

Where she’s going, there is a big Cabela’s,  so she plans to buy herself a package of Repell-em bags there.  I always order mine off the website, but Cabela’s does carry them.

(They’re on sale, on the website, right now!)

I gave my mother some Repell-em trash bags on Monday, and told her to go ahead and set out her garbage that night, because Tuesday morning is Trash Pickup Day in her neighborhood.

She shared the bags with the neighbors on both sides of her house.  So what we had, on Monday night, was three houses on one side of a street with Repell-em trash bags sitting on the curb in front of each of them.  Mom’s left-hand neighbor’s Repell-em bag was especially pungent because she had a family reunion over the weekend and her Repell-em bag contained a turkey carcass, among other things.

The people across the street from Mom saw their neighbors putting out their trash the night before and decided to do the same.  The only difference was, these people were using ordinary white trash bags.

The next morning, there was trash and garbage all over the block.  The “white bag” neighbors’ trash was EVERYWHERE, and the white bags were in shreds.  On Mom’s side of the street, six red Repell-em bags sat in front of three houses, and the Repell-em trash bags were completely intact.

Mom’s convinced, and so are her neighbors.  None of them has a computer, so when I place my next order, they want in on it.

You should do the same!

My mother belongs to a missionary society, and these ladies regularly pack boxes full of necessities and maybe a few luxuries to mail to the members of their church who are currently living overseas, most of them in very hot countries and with very few amenities to make things pleasant.

Mom was telling me about a letter they’d received from one of their missionaries, and in this letter, a lady was describing their never-ending battle with scavenging animals and insects. She told the church ladies that she and her family were always covered with bug bites, always itching, always shaking the sheets to be rid of the spiders and heaven-knows-what else. There is always a bug in everybody’s shoe, always an animal sniffing around the trash, and it was to the point that it was dangerous to let the children play outside. She described the stray dogs and coyotes, the raccoons and other wild and semi-wild and even fairly tame animals who made hash and hay of any trash or garbage. This lady lamented that even though churches sent really nice, expensive trash bags all the time, none of them could stand up to the insects and hungry animals of this area of the planet.

So, I gave Mom one of my boxes of Repell-em trash bags to pack in the missionary box, and I asked the church ladies to ask the missionaries if they would mind reporting back to me on whether or not the Repell-em product did the trick and kept the bugs and stray animals away from the bagged garbage.

When I hear, I’ll let you all know!

One more thank-you to everyone who entered the Repell-em contest; those of you who responded in time with your mailing information should be getting your sample very soon.

There will be another Repell-em contest in the spring, so keep watching this blog for details!

And hey, if you plan on sending a box of whatever to missionaries, friends, etc. who are living in a hot, insect-y country, you might consider putting some Repell-em products in there. I’m betting that Repell-em magic will make a world of difference to someone who is living a world away, trying to make the world a better place.

Don’t forget to enter the Repell-em Contest! Remember, everyone who enters will get a sample of our fantastic Repell-em products, and the three who win will get a substantial dollar amount of merchandise! Click on the link and enter. Even if you lose, you still win! EVERYBODY wins!

It is SO FRUSTRATING to set out the trash and minutes later look out to see that the neighborhood dogs have torn it to pieces and scattered your household rejects all over the street. This means you have to run out there in your robe and slippers and pick up icky things you threw out once and re-bag everything. Sometimes, you have to do this three or four times before the garbage trucks come by.

If the weather is warm, you have to contend with bees, too. Bees and wasps love garbage, and they take it as a personal attack when you try to take that piece of last Tuesday’s lasagna away from them and put it back in yet another fresh trash bag.

There’s a way out of this, you know.

Use Repell-em trash bags. They’re strong and made of material that animals and insects loathe. Put your foulest garbage in a Repell-em bag and no animal in its right mind would even CONSIDER bothering it.

Forgot to put the trash out for two weeks in a row? That’s some pretty nasty stuff you’ll have there. If you put it out in a regular trash bag, no matter what brand and no matter how thick and no matter how expensive, the dogs will have it torn and scattered before you’ve had time to get back into the house.

However, if you put that disgusting stuff in a Repell-em bag, it will be pristine when the garbage truck pulls up to your driveway. YOU won’t even be able to smell it.

You’ll appreciate that. Your neighbors will appreciate it. And believe me, your garbage guys will appreciate it, too.

As for the neighborhood dogs, cats, bees, wasps, flies, and all those other pesky varmints. . . they’ll all just be wondering what the heck happened to the buffet you used to set out for them.