Clip on Bug Repellant

[EllenFrasier]

Has anyone tried the Clip On Bug Repellent? I saw the commercial for it the other day and it looks like it works, but that was a commercial. Any actual users out there? I am outside a lot and deer flies and mosquitoes are my enemy, but I don't like wearing bug spray on my skin.

 

[mommy2_3]

i am wondering about this too! if it works i would deft. buy a few but i dont want to spend $8 for one to have me still get eaten alive!

 

[dallastxcpa]

I thought about these too but they are expensive $8 a piece where I live and two refill pads are $4 for 2.

A friend of mine swears by dryer sheets. He says you rub your self with them or just stick one in your waist band. I haven't tried it yet but might this weekend when I am outside working on my rose bushes.

 

[3boymthr]

Here hopefully these will make the price more tolerable:

http://www.off.com/coupon/04-10-BOGO/default.aspx

You can print two per computer.

Plus if you have a CVS near you, go to CVS.com, choose the option of print in-store coupons and you can print a coupon for $3 off. This is a CVS store coupon and can be combined with the BOGO coupon.

Plus if you buy any three SC Johnson items listed you can get a a $5 Rebate:

http://www.scjohnson.com/Files/afc-...offline&utm_campaign=2009-10-value-tag-DIRECT

They were on sale at CVS last week, and between my work and home computers and I got 4 of them for $1.98 and I'm putting in for the $5 rebate so I'm going to get 4 plus make $3.

 

[pilesoflaundry]

My cvs $3 coupon is a manufacter coupon, not a store coupon. It starts with a 5 and has the reimburse address. You could still use 1 $3 q with the bogo if your store allows a coupon to be used with a bogo on the one you pay for. My store doesn't.

I bought the 2 fans last month when walgreens had a coupon for $2 off to use with the bogo and the $2 insert coupon and paid $2.99 for 2. I'm getting the refills at cvs with the $3 coupon. Haven't tried them yet but for that price if it doesn't work well I can't complain.

I looked on amazon and the reviews are pretty split between it works and it stinks.

 

[mickeytattoo95]

I've had this little device for about a month and I'm still not sure if it works all that great. It says it works best if you are sitting still in one area. I still got bug bites! Then again, it could be that we just have really aggressive blood suckers in GA.

Also, I tried that dryer sheet trick and it doesn't work either. Off's smooth and dry has the least offensive sent and seems to work the best.

 

[shan136]

I bought one last summer. When we were in Cape May NJ (beautiful, but horribly buggy) I saw someone wearing it, and he was sitting outside for hours!

I use mine on our deck, which is not as buggy as Cape May but pretty bad at night, and found that it worked really well, I had no bites at all. I do agree that it probably works best when staying in one place.

 

[peanut12392]

I have tried these. If you are sitting in one spot, and there is no breeze, they seem to work fairly well, but if you are moving around, they are not so good. I think they need time to build up an area around you to keep the bugs away.

 

[jacksmomma]

I got one last year and took it back. It did not work worth a darn!

 

[3boymthr]

I have tried these. If you are sitting in one spot, and there is no breeze, they seem to work fairly well, but if you are moving around, they are not so good. I think they need time to build up an area around you to keep the bugs away.

I got them for sitting around the campfire so it sounds like they will work for us.

 

[MickeynMinnie]

i got them for a camping trip last week and i came home with 56 bites!!! i would say they don't work!!! lucky i had coupons and didn't pay that much for them! but it was still a waste of money!!

 

[gurglingsuitcase87]

we bought this for my mom as a gag gift and it turned out to be really helpful! My mom gets eaten alive, especially in Florida. She puts on the deep woods bug repellent and will still get bit and the rest of us wont. She uses the clip on all the time. The refills last a really long time as well. One lasted her the whole week trip and she used it almost every night. hope this helps!

 

[yoopermom]

My aunt works for the company, and she says it's the "hot" item right now, just flies off the shelves.

Terri

 

[wtrmlnlabs]

A friend of mine swears by dryer sheets. He says you rub your self with them or just stick one in your waist band. I haven't tried it yet but might this weekend when I am outside working on my rose bushes.

When I read the instructions about having to sit still with the clip on things, I figured they wouldn't work for me, doesn't help that bugs LOVE me, can be sitting around with tons of people and I'll be the only one eaten alive!

The dryer sheet thing has worked for me though. We rented a place that had lots of mosquitoes around, would get several in the house. I would get bit up at night, so I tucked a bounce dryer sheet in the collar of my PJ's each night, never got bit again.

 

[bettymae1121]

I tried it for the first time the other night. DH and I were sitting out around our fire pit. I didn't get bit, but it was also so windy that the bugs may have all just blown away (the smoke from the fire may have helped to. I'll have to use it a few more times yet and see if it keeps working.

 

[fall08CP]

I highly recommend Avon's SkinSoSoft. I work in a swampy area with animals so there are tons of bugs. As long as I apply it in the morning, I'm good all day. It also includes SPF, so double whammy. When I don't put it on, I feel it later 13 bites in an hour one night! It's a lotion so it's not sticky and it has a rather pleasant smell.

 

[NHWX]

As others have said, it's good up to a point. Right now, the bugs come out pretty reliably by 4:15 in the afternoon. I'm good with the bug fan until about 7:30 or 8:00 by which time there are so many of them, nothing will do any good. I use when I'm relatively still - weeding, digging in a new plant, etc. I'm just glad I can go out, do 30 minutes of work and not have to shower off the DEET afterwards.

Remember, you have to replace the pad, so keep checking the indicator level.

And, when I know I'm going to be outside in bug-heaven for a while, I just go with the Ben's 100. I know it's DEET but the other alternative is a chance for EEE or West Nile. I was at a cookout Friday night in a town that typically tests positive for one or both of those and I took the Badger Balm (no one in the family went for that), the bug fan (worked for a bit for one kid) and the Ben's 100. It's what we ended up using.

NHWX