Affordable ways to store clothes without expensive airtight containers
Plastic airtight containers and long-lasting pest strips are often too expensive or hard to find. This leaves people struggling to protect clean clothes from carpet beetle larvae and moths without spending a fortune on short-lived alternatives.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Buying airtight plastic containers
- 2Using sachets from brands like Acana that only last 3 months
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I was planning on buying these to store my clothes after i wash them to keep the carpet beetle larvae away from my clothes because the plastic containers are pretty expensive.”source ↗
“Will these suffice or should i just spend more to get airtight containers instead.”source ↗
“If anyone has any other affordable recommendations, please let me know as well!!”source ↗
“Has anyone in the UK found a good alternative to the 6 month long clothes moth killing paper strips that rentokill, pest expert etc used to sell?”source ↗
“I don't know why they all disappeared suddenly, but all I can find now are these sachets from acana that only last 3 months and therefore cost twice the price overall ugh.”source ↗
Where this came up
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