Repell-em Blog

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!

Most schools these days can’t function without donations from parents.  That is a sad fact of life.

If your child’s teacher has trash bags on the list of classroom needs, why not send EcoSmart Repellem trash bags to school!  It would mean that your child, and all the other children in the room, would be learning in a completely insect-free environment, no matter how many cookie crumbs were spilled onto the floor!

How comforting to know that your child’s daytime environment was clean and vermin-free!  What a relief to picture your child perhaps sitting on the floor, working over posterboards or stacking blocks, and not have to worry about roaches, gnats, fleas, or even lice!

That’s right: lice.  Many parents are tying a little strip of Repellem around their child’s headband or barrette, or around a necklace, or through a collar buttonhole, to keep away the insects that love to hop from head to head in any crowded classroom.  Tie it in a pretty red bow, or put it where it won’t show at all!  It will also keep the mosquitoes away from your child when it’s recess time.

EcoSmart Repellem trash bags are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely recyclable and environmentally sound.  There is nothing in a Repellem trash bag that could harm a child, even if the bags are used in daycare or preschools where a child might chew or suck on a trash bag.  They are excellent for use in daycare, in fact, because dirty diapers will not attract insects - not even flies - if disposed of in a Repellem trash bag!

Your child’s teacher will appreciate any donations you can send, of course, but if you send Ecosmart Repellem products, the teacher and all of the other parents will genuinely, thoroughly appreciate your thoughtfulness.

It’s such a small thing, but it has a HUGE impact!  Not having to worry about insects or mice will be a relief to the teachers, and it will be one worry crossed off each parent’s list, too!

To find the most convenient way to purchase EcoSmart Repellem trash bags, check out this page!

I went on a picnic today with my old high school girlfriends and our husbands.  Our state park shelter was open on two sides, and all around us were other shelters with large groups in them, too.

Funny thing, though. . . . all the other people in the park were slapping at mosquitoes and spraying smelly hazardous repellants on themselves and on their children.  Heaven only knows what their food tasted like after being so close to such strong-smelling stuff!

But in our park shelter, my friends and I were NOT slapping at mosquitoes.  We didn’t even have any ants!  There were no nasty odors from strong poisonous sprays at our picnic table.  The only time one of us got bitten was when a couple of the husbands walked across the parking lot to get something out of the car.

What was the difference between our picnic setup and everybody else’s?  Simple.  We had an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on our table, and two EcoSmart Repellem trash bags hanging off the ends of the unused table in our shelter.

And, we had no bugs.  Nope, not one.  I recommend EcoSmart Repellem products to all of you this summer, for your picnics, and for your general day-by-day living.  “No bugs” is nice, and extends to your home if you use EcoSmart Repellem products there, too.

I do.   Wouldn’t be without them!

We went on a picnic today.  Ordinarily my husband doesn’t care for picnics, because he can’t stand the bugs.  Now that we have Repell-em tablecloths, though, that concern is gone and we’ve actually gone on several really fun picnics this summer.

A Repell-em tablecloth not only keeps the flying bugs, like mosquitoes and gnats, away from you and from your food, it also keeps the ants and other crawling insects away.  A picnic without ants!  Can you imagine?

Well, if you have a Repell-em tablecloth on your picnic table, you don’t have to imagine.  You’ll see for yourself.

Don’t worry about the ingredients in the Repell-em tablecloth harming your skin or your food, either.  Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients, all of which are absolutely harmless.

I’ve had guests these past few days and we have been able to sit outside in absolute comfort.  We were not annoyed by pesky flies, or stinging mosquitoes, or chiggers.  We came inside not because we were driven by hordes of bugs, but because we wanted to.

Thanks to Repell-em, it’s comfortable in our yard now.  And back in the garden, all the vegetables are healthy

I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful it is to be able to enjoy the outdoors like we are this summer.    With Repell-em, the outdoors is almost as safe as the indoors!  No bugs and no animals to bother you,  and nothing but a breeze, some sunshine, a lawn chair, and some lemonade.

No bugs.  Not even a trace.  Thank you, Repell-em.