Cedar Space Cedar Blocks For Closet Storage, 16pcs

works great

Moths. I hate them.

I recently moved and am temporarily renting an apartment from my parents. My dad suggested strongly that I utlize my time here wisely and take the opportunity to clean out some more of the things that I’ve had stored in their basement for decades. Most of my belongings were in totes except for a bag or two of old blankets and some stuffed animals that I’ve kept since childhood that I didn’t have the heart to part with.

This was the prelude to the coming insect apocalypse.

I brought the items upstairs and into my apartment so that I could decide what to trash, donate, or keep, until I’m old and senile and no longer remember why I’ve kept these things in the first place. I opened the bag of stuffed animals and out flew a few moths. Ick! So I quickly swatted the hell out of them and proceeded to sort through the bag, opting out of keeping most of the things in it. There were, however, a few stuffed animals – like my collection of Scooby-Doo paraphernalia that is on the borderline of becoming featured on an episode of Hoarders, and a thing or two given to me by a high school boyfriend that I wanted to hold onto for the sake of memory to feel lucky that I didn’t end up with that loser. My cats like stuffed animals so I would hold onto these things for them. That’s what I told myself. Everything that I decided to keep was promptly washed. In my mind, that was the end of it.

Skip ahead to a week or so later, and as I was cleaning I noticed a few moths flying around. I thought perhaps it was from leaving the screen door open. However, when I moved my cats’ cubby and beds, and the pile of cute little stuffed animals that they had piled on top, out flew a squadron of moths on a mission to destroy everything in sight. I ran into the kitchen grabbing a can of Raid and my vacuum cleaner and proceeded to execute defensive countermeasures, furiously spraying the air and flailing the vacuum hose around like a madwoman while shouting expletives that included blasphemy and the frequent misuse of the Lord’s name in conjunction with the “F-bomb.”
As kamikaze moths made nose-dives into my head, and furniture, I began kicking items around so as to spray and vacuum, in my best attempt to hold the line against these winged invaders, which only revealed battalions of moths who were waiting to launch their assault. After about an hour of combat, I only saw a handful left that seemed to be in retreat, so I was fairly confident that I had won the battle. I rushed out to the supermarket and purchased a ton of mothballs. I bought so many of them that I nearly cleaned out the inventory and I’m sure that there were blue-haired grandmothers somewhere in the neighbourhood cursing my very existence.
After stashing mothballs in every place that I could think of where these demonic creatures may try to hide, I again threw all of the stuffed animals, and also the cats’ blankets and toys, into the wash. Once more I was confident that I had solved the problem.

What ensued was a plague of biblical proportions.

Mothballs are toxic to cats. As a crazy cat lady, I should have remembered this. In my desperate attempt to rid my home of this moth invasion, it slipped my mind. Skip ahead a few days, and my cats are puking all over the place. When I realized it was from the mothballs, I went on the hunt for every moth ball in the apartment and quickly trashed them, then cleaned again. I didn’t see any moths so I incorrectly assumed, again, that the problem was solved. Skip ahead again to a few more days, and I started noticing a few moths flying around. Swat, spray, vacuum. Repeat.
These freaking things would not die.
They would not leave. They just kept being fruitful and multiplying, trying their best to takeover my home and the only place of solitude that I have from the cruel world. I spent the majority of my free time hopped up on espresso, hunting moths again with a can of Raid and my vacuum cleaner because I couldn’t use moth balls. My cats began to revolt from the fumes and again began puking everywhere. So then I had landmines of cat puke all over the apartment while an army of moths flew through the air every time that I moved a cat tree or bed, and a swarm of them made their headquarters in my closet. I lost several pair of socks and a few sweatshirts. May they rest in peace.
There were also mass casualties of catnip mice and some fuzzy pompoms. My cats haven’t quite forgiven me yet.
During the height of the plague, my cats also were so kind as to try to assist me, by leaping off of the furniture and through the air all hours of the day and night, to apprehend these things mid-flight. This resulted in several broken picture frames and once or twice, my dinner on the kitchen floor.
They also began peeing everywhere that there was a nest. Well, at least I got a better idea of where the moths were hiding.
By the end of the week, my place smelled like a toilet, there was cat puke in piles on the floor, and there were so many moths flying through the air, that I was sure that one of my cats was going to don a robe and staff and lift his paws to the swarm, meowing “let my people go!”

Finally, after complaining to my mother about this month-long invasion of peace destroying winged demons, she says, “why not use cedar? That’s what I use in my closet. It’s safe for cats, too.”

Well duuuuuuuuuuhhhhh. How did I not remember this? Thanks Mom, for telling me this thirty days later after I spent almost an entire paycheck on moth balls and Angry Orange.
So I went to the store and bought a crapton of cedar products. They were meh. I bought a different brand. It helped but these clothes-eating demons were still hanging around. So I searched Amazon and purchased cedar balls. That brand worked okay but lost its scent quickly. So I have to frequently use sandpaper to release the scent again. Those seemed to work in drawers but not in the closet or out in the open, near my cats’ beds.

In one last desperate attempt to rid my apartment of moths before giving up on life entirely and start Christmas shopping for gifts for the legion of moths in my apartment because they live here now,
I decided to try this brand. I’m so glad that I did. My cats are glad too because now they don’t have to plan their escape while I sleep because they’re ill from the fumes of Raid and cleaning products.

The blocks are not only a decent size, but have a very strong cedar scent. The scent remains and doesn’t dissipate quickly like other brands. More importantly- they actually work. After a week I began to notice moths – that were dead. I started finding moth corpses everywhere that I had put a cedar block. I’m half Italian, so it pleased me greatly to know that these evil insects with an appetite for my clothes, blankets, and the destruction of my peace of mind, were turning up dead all over my apartment. Yeah, that’s right, you piece of crap Lepidoptera, you’ve eaten a hole in your last sock, pal. The entire family of moths is getting whacked by the scent of some cedar blocks. My cats and I are grateful.

The Angry Orange seems to help as well (for washing items that one wants to keep that have had moth larvae attached – but one must first vacuum the heck out of the item and remove the pods prior to washing) but it’s these Cedar Space cedar blocks that saved the day – and my clothing!

I like these so much that I purchased another package this week, as well as a box of the ones with hooks that hang in the closet. Even though I now have PTSD from the moth war of 2023 which will probably require years of therapy, for me and my cats, and my apartment smells like a forest, I would honestly say that these cedar products are a worthwhile investment.
Almost all of the moths are dead and I haven’t seen many others which means no new surprises await me in the coming weeks. These blocks are working great.

I’ll definitely purchase more of these products in the near future. I give Cedar Space blocks 5 of 5 stars.

Well manufactured little blocks do a big job. Recommend!

nicely cedar sented

Me gustaron. Pero creí que eran más grandes las piezas

We put these in our cottage bags of clothing.. we see away for 6 months and when we pulled our clothes out of the bags, they smelled fresh and clean. These work amazing!!

I took a chance on this cedar set after having already tried a lower price set first. The other set had a similar if not identical number of pieces and at the time was listed around half the price, at 12.99 or so. Having only used lavender sachets before I wasn’t sure how scented the product should be, and with a distinct but rather mild cedar smell, I assumed they would be adequate and proceeded to put them around my house in linen storage areas and around drafty windows. It seemed like that cedar had some, but not complete effect at repelling moths (and in my case I was hoping it would work on other bugs as well) so I went to order some more cedar items.

On the second round, I decided to try this product instead due to a faster delivery date desired due to an overwhelming fear of creepy crawlers of any kind. At the time of purchase, this set was listed at 24.99 or so. The product arrived promptly, but I was initially frustrated because the product box (not delivery box) was in poor shape. As soon as I started to unload it, however, it became clear this cedar set had a far stronger cedar scent. To be clear, it was not offensive or artificial smelling, and as someone who experiences migraines often triggered by strong smells, this didn’t bother me at all (usually only artificial scents bother me, like air fresheners, candles, some perfumes, etc.). It seems my initial concerns that the squished/poor quality box would mean a lower quality product were unfounded. Keeping in mind I now had twice the cedar, the addition of this product seemed to be a meaningful one and I have seen a greater reduction in (at least the visible *shudders*) bugs around my house.

Overall, I’m pleased with the price and feel the product merited the slight extra expense. I bought this set a couple months ago at this point, and even now I’m still hit with a cedar scent every time I open a wardrobe I’ve used these blocks in, compared to the small closet I used the other product in (and much more of it) where the scent is essentially undetectable.

A last note in considering this purchase against other products – Other reviewers of cedar have suggested using cedar wood essential oil to “revive” the wood scent instead of sanding the blocks every so often. Initially, I was resistant to that idea and felt the blocks should come scented enough that sanding shouldn’t require supplementation with oil. Now, owning over 100 pieces, I can see how the oil has greater appeal to sanding just in terms of ease of maintenance, so I did cave and buy some (2 small bottles) for about 10 dollars not long ago. Before buying that, I felt the stronger scent and greater staying power really justified this product over the cheaper, less scented, alternative. Looking back, if buying oil will be necessary for maintenance either way, it might be easier to just buy the cheaper set from the start and “refresh” the scent immediately to get a greater effect. I can’t independently validate the efficacy of this strategy, but if I had to do it over, I think I’d at least try that first. Hope this review helps others out there!