Original Moth Balls, 4 oz Each, 4 Pack (E38)

work as advertised

I saw a snake in my front pathway garden in early spring, so I got these moth balls to help keep more snakes from showing up. They must be working, because I haven't seen a snake in my garden or anywhere near it since I put the moth balls out. So they're working fine for what I needed t hem for.

Bought these on recommendation of pest control folks, to put down a pack rat hole under our air conditioner, Packie ( ok, yes, we named him - but it took a while to get rid of him, so...) simply threw them out again, so that didn't work BUT, a few months later we had a mouse in the attic, so we distributed them around the attic and, no more pitter patter of little feet - no dead ones, they just decided to move out, YEA!The smell did penetrate the air conditioner ducts, and the house and garage smelled faintly of moth balls for a couple of weeks, so be aware of that before doing as I did, but that is better than having to replace all the wiring in the attic and clean up their mess, by my estimation. I would do this again to get rid of unwanted visitors, and have ordered more to keep on hand, but I don't think I'll do it continuously as a preventative measure because who wants to smell faintly of moth balls all the time, right?Shipping came as expected good shape not a problem, but the package these come in themselves leaves something to be desired, they are not airtight, so they sublimed during shipping and were smaller than they should have been or arrival and had penetrated everything else in the box. Would recommend that you do not order these with food or anything that this might harm. Shipper might bag them as you would a liquid, that would help.You cannot store them in the container they come in as they will sublime completely very quickly, you need to store them in an airtight container if you want to keep them for more that a couple of days. I use a glass canning jar with a sealed lid. Would recommend that the manufacturer look at improving their packaging.

I like these little packages, there were quite a few in the bag, and I like snipping the corner to release fragrance and not touch the mothballs. I don't know how long they last since I am writing this review 1 day after receiving it.I do know they smell like mothballs just strong enough to get the job done like the overly strong mothballs from back in the day that the mothball smell from just 10-15 balls would last for a year and have you and your home smelling very old and decrepit sorry for saying that but most people don't want their clothes to smell like they've been stored in granny's attic for 10 years.These are good, FOR MANY uses, I will buy more soon. YES, I BOUGHT so my review was not based on a freebie bag of mothballs if you enjoyed my review and I made you laugh and did not offend ( which was not my intention).Please let everyone know THANKS ;-)

These appear to be good mothballs but turned out I didn't need them. Bought them when I found a rat in my car engine when I opened the hood to add coolant. The rat had chewed through and made a nest from the insulation in the hood. Googling I found different suggestions on how to keep rats out of your car engine, one of the best rated was to put mothballs in a mesh bag and attach to the inside wall of the car away from the engine or anything that generates heat. Before I got the mothballs I removed the insulation nest, sprinkled the area with cayenne pepper and placed a few dryer sheets in the nest area, other suggestions found on Google. Probably all the activity, opening/closing the hood several times, the cayenne pepper and dryer sheets were enough to scare the rat away, so never used the mothballs. Don't really have another use for them at this time but something will probably come up.