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!

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 have three cats, and they love to climb on the furniture and play with dangling cords and anything that looks as though it might be tasty. Lately, the cats have been all over our computer equipment, and this just can’t be allowed.

How do you tell a cat “no” without whacking her over the nose with a rolled-up newspaper? We’re not a whacking household, but coming home from work every day to find cords unplugged and gnawed, and everything batted off the tops of all the surfaces was getting really old really fast. Computers are fragile and computers are expensive, and computers are just simply not a proper place for self-respecting cats to hang out.

I got home from the college really late tonight: far too late to begin my second outdoor experiment with Repell-em bags, but when I walked into the computer room and saw one of the cats happily pulling cords out of their sockets with a hungry look on her face, I decided to try something else.

See the red Repellem trash bag? It’s really barely noticeable against the red wall, and it’s making the whole room smell good.

Better still, the cats won’t even enter the room now! The magical Repell-em aura is protecting the entire computer room!

Repell-em doesn’t really use magic, of course. Repell-em uses all-natural ingredients, completely harmless to living things. Repell-em doesn’t kill, it just REPELS!

I love my cats, but I don’t love what they do to my computer equipment. Now, they won’t even come into the room.

Yay! Repell-em! My electronics are safe again!

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! 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.