Repell-em Blog

The little girls next door to me have a treehouse, but they weren’t using it this summer.  I asked their mother why, and she said it had wasps in it!

I’m deathly afraid of wasps, but I hated it that those sweet little girls weren’t able to use their treehouse.  There was no way I was going to knock down the papery wasp-house, but I had another plan.  I wasn’t sure it would work: wasps are pretty powerful bugs, but it was worth a try.

So I got a couple of my Repell-em trash bags, wadded them up so they’d “hurl” better, and hurled them both (tied ‘em to a rock!) through the window of that treehouse.  Within seconds a CLOUD of wasps poured out of that little window, and they never came back.

We waited a few days just to make sure, and then my neighbor’s husband climbed into the treehouse and took down the wasps’ former home.

The girls’ mother festooned the treehouse with Repell-em, and the little girls have been playing up there ever since.

The end.

P.S.  I believe that Repell-em products are one of the grandest inventions of the century.  They haven’t failed me yet.  I wasn’t sure they’d repel WASPS, for heaven’s sake, but they 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.

An ideal gift for someone who loves to camp would be package containing Repell-em tablecloths, Repell-em tent mats, and Repell-em tent liners. Throw in a box of Repell-em trash bags, and you’ll have a fantastic gift for the outdoors-loving person in your life!

With Repell-em products at the campsite, there will be no bugs and no animals to tear up your trash and spread it all over the woods. You’ll sleep in comfort because no mosquitoes or any other creepy crawling biting stinging insect will come near you.

If you yourself are an outdoorsy person, or if you have family and friends who love to camp, a box full of Repell-em products would be much appreciated!

Imagine! Camping without clouds of flies and mosquitoes biting and annoying you!

With Repell-em products, that can happen!

I don’t what what kind they are, or why they’re there, but every summer, I get these disgusting little bugs under my kitchen sink.  It’s dry under there; no leaks or standing water.  The pipes are dry, too.  I don’t keep any organic substances under the sink; just soap!  Where do these bugs come from and why are there under the sink?

Rather, why WERE they under the sink, is more like it.  This summer, I wrapped a Repell-em bag around the U-pipe, and so far, not a single bug of any kind has shown its scaly face under there.

When the weather gets hot and muggy, the insects are in paradise.  Stick a Repell-em bag in all those enclosed spaces; they smell great to people, and you won’t be troubled by insects.  I’m serious.  I use nothing but Repell-em bags now, and not only are they the best trash bags ever, they’ve got so many other useful uses, I should write a book!

I showed you my pest-free tomato garden last Friday. Today, I’m going to show you how I grow tomatoes on my deck - upside-down.

You read it right. I grow upside-down tomato plants on my deck. AND, like the tomato garden in my back yard, my upside-down deck tomatoes are also completely pest-free.

NOTHING bothers them. No insects. No animals. I’m not going to spray or dust any of my plants with anything, either; I’m going to depend on Repell-em to take care of any and all mites, fungi, and living pestiferous things of every kind.

Here’s a picture of the upside-down tomato. This is a really fun project; I wasn’t sure it would work, but I found the idea on Steve Spangler’s blog and it looked like it would be both fun AND easy, and so far? BOTH! If you look closely at this picture, you can see the big tomato garden in the distance.

Here’s a close-up of the upside-down tomato. Here, you can plainly see the strip of red Repell-em that I wrapped around the top of the bucket. Not only is that little strip of Repell-em keeping all the bugs and animals away from the tomato; it’s also keep the mites and flies away from the petunias - even when there’s standing water around them!

Item: honeybees are not affected by Repell-em products. The wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets are held at bay, but the honeybees don’t seem to mind Repell-em at all. This is, of course, a GOOD thing! We WANT the honeybees!

I suggest that you all do to your gardens - big gardens and the little deck and porch pots - what I did to mind, which is: wrap strips of Repell-em around them and watch your vegetables and flowers flourish!

We here at Repell-em want to wish all of you a very happy and safe Fourth of July!

You’ll have more fun at your cook-out if you use Repell-em products to keep all the bugs away.  The dog and cat won’t bother anyone on the deck, either, if you’ve got a Repell-em trash bag set up out there.

The red Repell-em products make a nice patriotic touch at your picnic, too.

Be sure to cut off a few little strips and tie them around everybody’s ankle and wrist for extra protection against the insects.

There will be no uninvited buzzing, biting pests at your barbecue if you put Repell-em products out there, too!  With a Repell-em tablecloth on the table, and a Repell-em trash bag for all the garbage, your outdoor party will be absolutely bite-sting-buzz-itch FREE!

We plant our tomatoes in a railroad flat, and every year we fight Mother Nature and all her minions for the fruits of our labor. I’m not sure who gets more tomatoes: Bambi and his mother, or all the nasty little worms and insects that feast on the tomatoes and then devour the plants down to the roots.

As you can see, this year I’m fighting back. The cat (her name is Millicent) won’t go near the flat, and so far, neither Bambi nor his mother, nor any of their woodland friends have bothered the plants.

As you can see, each tomato cage has been wound with a strip of Repell-em, and between the scent, the ends waving in the breeze, and the large Repell-em piece acting as a scarecrow there on the end, I really believe we’re going to get some tomatoes for ourselves this year.

I don’t have to worry about “insect repellent” touching my food and contaminating it in any way, because Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely harmless.

The cats were used to playing in that railroad flat all winter, and it’s really funny to watch them go running toward it and then stop short, look around with a bewildered expression, and then turn and walk away.

Here’s a closer shot of a few tomato cages, so you can see in greater detail what I’ve done with the strips of Repell-em. It’s nothing fancy, obviously, but so far it’s working like a charm!

There are so many uses for your Repell-em products. So far, every experiment I’ve done with them has been successful!

I promised you all a picture of my garden with Repell-em woven all around the tomato cages, but I’ll have to pass on that until Wednesday.  I live in Indiana, you see, and the never-ceasing rain has really thrown a monkey wrench into any photo ops I may have had planned!

Surely by Wednesday’s post, I’ll be able to go back there and take a picture for you.  It’s really quite attractive!

In the meantime, I will give you this:  I feed my cats in the kitchen, and for the past two days, not one of the three has gone near their food OR water bowl!

I finally figured it out.  I had gathered up all the newspapers and put them in a Repell-em bag and set the bag in front of the patio doors, BESIDE THE CATS’S DISHES!

No wonder the cats wouldn’t go near enough to even grab a light snack!

Repell-em products really work.  I mean to say, Repell-em products REALLY, REALLY WORK!

Stay tuned for some pictures.

I put tomato cages on all my tomato plants this afternoon, and I decided to try another experiment with Repell-em trash bags while I was out in the garden.  I don’t have to worry about Repell-em products touching food, because Repell-em is 100% natural.
I already have a Repell-em bag on a stick, waving around in the breeze and scaring all the birds and animals away.   But as I was working, I thought,  it’s not always going to be breezy, and one Repell-em scarecrow in the middle of the plot might not be enough.  I need to put some Repell-em bags in my garden in such a way that each individual tomato plant will be protected against, not only deer, possums and raccoons, but also the bugs and worms.

So, I wove a Repell-em bag around and around each individual tomato cage.

The results was actually very pretty, and I KNOW nothing will bother my garden now!

On Monday, if it ever stops raining here, I’ll post a picture of my pretty, decorated tomato cages.  In the meantime, Bambi and his mother and all of his relatives, along with Thumper and all the pesky critters that never had names, had better steer clear of my garden.

When they get close to it now, they’ll turn tail and run away.  I’ve seen it happen.

Thank you, Repell-em!!!  You’ve passed every test I’ve given you!!!!