Protecting your wool clothes?

[McDave]

What do you guys do to keep your expensive wool duds from being eaten up by moths?  Just hang them in the closet and hope for the best?  My experience with that is that they can go for a few years without any damage, then lo and behold a moth hole appears.  I would think that putting moth balls in the pockets would create quite an aroma that wouldn't be easy to air out before hunting with them.  A cedar chest might be another idea, but I don't happen to have a cedar chest.  Any other ideas?

[jhg]

I went out and bought a tight closing plastic tub. All my wool goes into it with a bough of cedar. No moths can get in so end of problem. I don't want to stink up my wool with moth balls and stuff.

J-

[blueslfb]

I do the same thing as jhg. I learned my leason with a cheap plastic tote one winter when a family of mice found their way into the tote stored in my garage and made a cozy little home by chewing a hole in my jacket. Now they are stored in my basement with a pine branch. I also return them to the tote during the hunting season for storage b/w hunts.

[Hot Hap]

I took an old cedar fence post off my dad's farm and made some turkey box calls out of it. All the scraps and dust are in my closet in the basement, along with my wool. Hap

[Stone Knife]

I keep mine in plastic totes after the season ends, don't use mothballs. I have a shirt that I bought used that was stored in mothballs at one time or another, whenever it gets damp it smells like them. I won't wear it deer hunting just small game now, this has been going on for three years now. I use cedar in my totes.

[sweet old bill]

A plastic tote works great for the hunting togs both wool and or other. I do also put a few pine
into the tote as well.

The other might now be required but it sure then does not show the wife all the hunting togs that you continue to buy.

Bill

[McDave]

What about the idea of getting some cedar planks and lining the walls of the closet where I store them.  Do you folks think that would be enough to keep the moths out?  I like the idea of putting them into a tight closing plastic tub, but I wonder if the lack of ventilation might cause the wool to mildew?

[Fletcher]

I've never had mildew issues with the tubs as long as the clothes were dry when packed and the storage area stayed that way.

You can get chip board made with cedar that is made just for lining closets.  I think it would work quite well.

[BobW]

Fletcher, only if puy away wet or really bad humidity.  Storage can be as simple as a garbage bag over a hanger.  Tie/tape the bottom shut after you put whatever you want in it (including something for scent).  i got a garmet storage bag (like women use for storing dresses.  All zipped up, it keeps moths out.  It is a quilted fabric so it breathes - no mold.  I don't get all fancy with cedar chips or pine boughs.  But I won't use moth crystals.

[George D. Stout]

That's what the shavings from cedar arrows are for!  A plastic tote with a crimping type lid, some shavings, and you are set.

[NoCams]

We are storing ours in plastic totes with a gallon ziploc bag full of cedar dog bedding shavings thrown in the tote. Just punch the ziploc bag full of holes so the cedar can breath, but not leak shavings out all over your longjohns.

nocams

[BobW]

Originally posted by NoCams:
 but not leak shavings out all over your longjohns.

nocams

that takes the fun out of it.....  

[Whip]

There was an interesting article in WOOD Magazine last month that claims that cedar is no better than a plastic tote at protecting clothing.  The vapor from cedar do protect somewhat against larvae, but didn't have any affect on adult moths.  And sealing the wood with any sort of finish negates any benefit the wood may provide.
I use the plasitc totes myself, and haven't had any trouble yet.