Blanket storage

    I am trying to buy more blankets and sleeping bags for a time when furnace heat is no longer an option. How can I store these without getting moths or bugs into them?

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Can anyone help me? Thanks. Rocky

     I haven't tried the space bags yet but a friend swears by them.  Another does the same thing but with a heavy duty trash bag (she says it doesn't get brittle on the edges like the bags can if roughly handled).  Perhaps those new jumbo size ziplock bags would work for you.  If it's a down or fluffy fill blanket, roll it tightly before bagging to remove some excess air and consolidate space if vacuuming the air out is not an option. 

If your blankets/bags are not wool, then bugs won't be interested in them. Get fleece/synthetic blankets and bags and you're all set. We do have down sleeping bags (filled with ultrasoft feathers) and bugs have not been interested in them either--it's wool that gets them. Fleece is much softer, lighter, and cheaper, and just as warm.

Adding few mothballs or pine wood to your clothing/blanket storage bags will keep the buggies away.  You may smell like your grandmother, but you will be bug-free.