Cedar chests

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. We inherited some wool blankets that were in perfect shape when we got them from Edward’s grandmother’s house. Aunt Grace was a stickler for order and put everything that the moths could have eaten in one of the many cedar chests they had. In the South, a fixture of old houses was a cedar chest in every bedroom; eastern red cedar naturally has insect repelling oils, they don’t last forever but you can freshen them with more of those oils. I have three cedar chests and one I haven’t opened in at least five years contains a very luxurious mink stole that I’ve never worn, maybe I should check to be sure it’s survived my haphazard housekeeping. My niece had a moth invasion and had to put her frequently worn mink in the freezer.