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.

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!

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!

One of the MANY very cool things about ordering Repell-em products from the website is the fact that Repell-em lets you pay with PayPal!

I don’t like to give out my Visa information on any kind of shopping website, but I’ve never had a single problem of any kind with PayPal. PayPal lets me pay “anonymously” and I don’t have to send any sensitive information to an online store, ever, IF the online store accepts PayPal.

I tend to patronize online businesses that let me use PayPal. I tend to NOT patronize online businesses that don’t let their customers use PayPal.

Not only does Repell-em have a fantastic product that lives up to every single promise it makes, Repell-em is also a business that understands people who like to shop online. I ordered a lot of Repell-em products a month or so ago and I paid for them with PayPal. It was so easy.

If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can still order from the Repell-em website. It’s just that Repell-em also allows customers to use their PayPal accounts!

For a bona fide computer junkie like me, that’s almost too good to be true.

You know, just like ALL Repell-em products. Their claims are almost too good to be true. But I’ve been using Repell-em products for over a month now and I can tell you, FIRST HAND: Every promise Repell-em makes is absolutely true. Repell-em products do everything they claim to do, and they do it well. I ordered several different kinds of products and there’s not a dud in the box.

I’d tell you, right on this blog, if I ever found one!

This is a red Repell-em tablecloth. If I were you, I’d go here and buy some right now, before the warm weather arrives and stays, because if you sit outdoors at all, or eat outdoors at all, you’ll want a tablecloth that keeps all the insects away, won’t you?

It’s so nice to sit outdoors on the deck, or in the yard, with a lemonade or a margarita or a diet Coke, but bees and gnats and flies like those drinks, too. Most of the time, when you sit outdoors in the spring or summer warmth, with a glass full of sugary substance in your hand, you’re just asking for a swarm of bugs.

If you’ve got an open can of pop or beer, it can even be dangerous, because bees and wasps love those drinks so much, they’ll alight on the can and crawl inside before you know what’s happening, and when you try to drink, the insects bite or sting you on the mouth.

But with your attractive red Repell-em tablecloth on the outdoor table, you can set your drink down beside your plate of food or your open bag of chips, etc, and feel safe and secure in the knowledge that no living thing be it insect or mammal will come anywhere NEAR you or your refreshments, thanks to Repell-em.

Don’t be afraid to eat and drink near Repell-em products, either. Remember, they are made of 100% natural ingredients, completely harmless to humans.

I’m on Spring Break this week, so even though there’s still a little snow on my deck, I’m already looking forward to cleaning that deck, getting out the summer furniture, and sitting there looking at the beautiful woods behind my house, with a bag of Lay’s Potato Chips and a can of diet Coke, and not having to watch them every minute to make sure there are no insects crawling or flying around them.

Safe, safe, safe. NO INSECTS!!!!

I’ve used enough Repell-em products by now, personally, that I feel absolutely confident in any claim they make.

This tablecloth is 100% repellent to all insects and icky animals who like to lick our food, yet you can safely eat any food that falls on the tablecloth. It’s made of peppermint, and citronella, and rosemary, and clove, and geranium, and lemons, and apples, and mineral oil. No wonder Repell-em products smell so good to humans!

From reader/commenter Ellen comes these fantastic hints for using your Repell-em bags:

Ellen tell us that a fellow camper gave them some Repell-em bags (she calls them “magnificent garbage bags!”) and she put one in their campsite’s outside area, and the other she opened up and put under the non-skid mat outside the door, down the three steps and onto the ground. Ellen reminded us that having that mat on the ground is often just asking for trouble, but she got tired of sweeping and mopping up the linoleum in her new travel trailer.

According to Ellen, she had tried every anti-insect remedy known to mankind, but nothing worked until she tried the Repell-em bags.

She informed us that the ants and “other creepy-crawlies” would not cross the Repell-em line, and the inside of her new camper was bug-free.

Ellen went on to suggest that a piece of Repell-em bag tucked into a pocket or tucked into shoelaces might make evening walks more comfortable and could be reused as ties around the water and sewage hoses as a little extra “security.”

We here at Repell-em Products thank you, Ellen, for entering our contest and for giving us examples of how you use our product. You’ll be getting a sample in the mail, and perhaps you’ll even WIN!

Speaking of the Repell-em Contest, today is the last day to enter. At midnight tonight, the ballot box will be closed, and within the next few days, all entrants should expect to get an email from Jane at One by One Media (that’s me!) asking for a mailing address for your freebies.

On Wednesday of next week, we will email the winners and post their names and prizes right here on this blog.

Stay tuned!

And Ellen, thank you again. You’re awesome.

If you live in southern Indiana, you’ve seen this sight before.

Possums are the only North American marsupial, and they grow to be pretty darn big and extremely strong. A full-grown possum can tear a trash bag to ribbons and scatter its contents over a acre or more in a matter of minutes. Few garbage cans, even with lids that seal tightly, are capable of keeping a determined possum out. Their sense of smell is STRONG, and their sense of entitlement - to your garbage - is stronger.

However, a full-grown possum is no match for a Repell-em trash bag. Most animals can’t see Repell-em bags very well, for starters, because of their color, and most animals won’t come NEAR a Repell-em bag because they are repelled by the smell.

By the way, Repell-em bags smell really good to humans. The all-natural ingredients, completely harmless to people, combine to make a product that doesn’t just smell okay, as in “not stinky;” Repell-em bags smell GOOD. Like a nice candle you’d buy.

Put your garbage out on the deck or out by the street the night before it’s due to be picked up, and chances are that dogs, raccoons, and possums will tear it to pieces within the hour - IF it’s in ordinary trash bags. Put your garbage out on the deck or out by the street the night before it’s due to be picked up, and chances are that dogs, raccoons, and possums won’t even know it’s there - IF it’s in Repell-em trash bags.

Out in the country, we have terrible possum problems. They’re bold, and big, and sometimes they snarl and bite if they’ve honed in on your garbage and intend to have it. Possums carry rabies, too. They’re nocturnal, so if you see one during the day, RUN.

Of course, if you use Repell-em bags, you won’t have that problem at all. The possums will all be at your neighbor’s house, tearing up the turf. YOUR garbage -even the fish heads and leftover sauerkraut and kielbasa - will be safe and unmolested inside your Repell-em trash bags.

You’ve got until February 15th to enter the Repell-em Contest.

Don’t forget to enter the Repell-em Contest! The deadline has been extended through the middle of February, so you’ve still got plenty of time to enter.

I have three cats that live inside the house most of the time. They don’t know they’re cats; they think they’re people. Once in a while, a mouse will run across the carpet, but the cats just think someone came over to play with them. Sigh.

That’s why we started putting pieces of Repell-em trash bags here and there under the furniture, in a drawer, under the silverware tray, and in the pantry where I keep our food. A folded Repell-em bag keeps the cats off the sofas and chairs, too. Fantastic!

By the way, if you put pieces of Repell-em bags in YOUR pantry, you won’t ever get weevils again! It really works!

Back to the cats. I can’t put out any kind of poison for mice, because my cats would eat it, too. I needed something that repelled the cats from the furniture, pantry, etc, but would not harm them in any way if one of them had a taste. AND, whatever I put out had to repell the mice and bugs completely.  Repell-em bags are perfect because they contain only safe, natural ingredients.

Found it!

Repell-em products do the trick and they do it perfectly. Even if a cat ATE a piece of a Repell-em bag, it would not harm her. But since Repell-em bags repel animals, I don’t even have to worry about one of the cats touching the Repell-em bag or anything near the bag.

It’s wonderful!

When you live out in the country, you come to expect a “visitor” or two, but with Repell-em bags, you only get the visitors you want. It’s true.

Oh, and by the way. . . “Weevily Wheat” is an old folk song. Really, it is. Look it up.

Or I could do that for you.