Storing clothes in the loft - can I really not use bin bags?

[Ernestina]

A friend was telling me about all these vacuum bags she's bought to store her ds's clothes as he grows out of them so I said I was taking the credit crunch approach (we are Skint) and using carrier bags within bin bags to store my ds's clothes for fictional baby number 2.

So then she said, "well, I would be worried about moths..."

Really though? Moths, in the loft? None of the clothes are wool, and I really think our loft is a bit cool and drafty for moths (although it is dry).

What does everyone else do?

[CatchaStar]

Goodness, really? I've never heard that before. I personally don't store anything because I ebay everything - hate clutter lol. But as a child my mum and dad did put everything in the loft in black binbags, and they were always fine.

[Colditz]

er, bin bags. for about 3 years. I wash them when I get them out but really just because they have been up there with all the fibreglass.

[CarGirl]

moths are back on the increase because the chemicals that used to be used on them are now banned or soemthing like that

[FiveDollarShake]

Ive always stored mine in binliners and they were fine when I brought them back down again a couple of years later.

[Weegle]

we use the bin bag approach - some clothes have been up there 2.5 years now and no adverse affects. I think the cost of having to replace a few babygros should moths get to a bag would be minimal compared to a cost of enough of those vacuum bags. I'd only be tempted to do it for a space issue.

[TeenyTinyTorya]

I always use bin bags. I also store my massive stash of wool and fabric in my loft in cardboard boxes, and have never had a problem.

[Spidermama]

Maybe your friend has been made to feel a mug for forking out for unecessary vacuum bags when bin liners would do the job nicely.

I have rugs, carpets, blankets etc in the attick in black bags. Fine.

[Ernestina]

Great - thanks for the reassurance

And good point Weegle about new babygros probably being cheaper than those bags...

[lilymolly]

Word of warning here

I stored a lot of baby stuff up in our loft and last week we went up to sort it all out, and a lot of it had been destroyed by mice chewed and covered in mouse poo

I wish wish wish we had put ours in a better protected bag.

Having said all that, we are very rural and have mice in the house occasiionally and I think its just par for the course living in the sticks.

Give you another example, we had a leak under our floor from central heating pipes (dp is corgi plumber who fitted them) he had to lift our entire floor in the hall and ruin the tiles to find that a joint between pipes had been chewed right down so that it had created a tiny pin prick of a hole and the water was leaking out casuing the heating to pack in - this was caused by a rat mouse

[LunarSea]

Haven't had any problems using bin bags (or more accurately rubble sacks which are like extra-strong bin bags) here. Just tape them closed, and moths wouldn't get in anyway.

[Ernestina]

Thanks lilymolly but we're in a city so mice not really an issue...

[lilymolly]

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