To consider vacuum packing clothes I use regularly

[CaragianettE]

Ongoing clothes moth issue in house, so I keep a lot of my clothes in plastic bags. However the bags always seem to have a lot of air in them and don't fit easily in my chest of drawers. I'd like to vacuum pack them, but these aren't clothes I'd be packing away for a season, they are clothes I wear regularly, so will I find it a pain needing to re-vacuum pack at least one of the bags every night? Asking for advice as I've never actually vacuum packed anything.

YABU - vacuum packing is effort and time consuming and you don't want to be doing it every night
YANBU - vacuum packing a bag or two is super quick and easy and you should definitely do it

How do you think that "vacuum" packing clothes is going to stop moths? It's not an actual vacuum. Only freezing clothes stops moths.

You need to separate your keratin-based clothes from the rest of your clothes. Moths don't care about cotton, or synthetics. Then deal with that.

Surely dealing with the moth problem would be less effort than this

It’s super quick to vacuum pack things but I tend to find they get quite crumpled when they’re vacuum packed and need a bit of airing/steaming. If you’re using them frequently, it might not be so bad but I think that would be the most time consuming part. I sympathise though - we had issues with clothes moths when we moved into our house and it was a nightmare.

The clothes being inside a plastic bag stops moths eating them. The proposed vacuum packing is not for moth prevention, it's to make the bags smaller in my chest of drawers.

Lol...no

Really helpful answer - thank you! :)

Well… yeh

Your solution is mental.

OK, helpful reply. Well I suggest you take it up with Lakeland, who sell the moth-proof plastic bags I've been using, successfully, to stop moths eating my clothes. Sure they'll be glad to know that their product is mental! While you're at it you might want to let the 900+ people who bought this product in the last month, and the 1,089 people who rated it 4 stars or above, let them know that their solution is mental. I'm sure they'll be grateful for the feedback!

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Vacuum packing them is mental

Why?

Because it's dealing with the symptoms not the cause. Unless this is a temp arrangement whilst you are nuking the moths and larvae, this sounds like a real ballache.

Can you say more about why it's a ballache? A poster above said it's super quick to vacuum pack things.

I've had pest control over to inspect the house. They confirmed, which was already my belief, that there's no sign of moths in the carpet, and there aren't a lot of visible moths flying around. Their advice was to put Rentokil strips in the plastic bags with the clothes for a month or so as that should kill anything, but a) that involves carcinogenic chemicals (and I've already tried Zero In hanging pellets which didn't work) b) then I'm still using the plastic bags for at least a month anyway, so the vacuum packing is still a relevant idea and c) I don't know whether this will actually work, and presumably the only way to find out is to take the clothes out of the plastic bags at the end of the month and potentially risk them getting holes in them again. So actually getting rid of moths is itself quite the ballache, as you could guess from the fact that, as I mentioned above, 900+ people per month are buying moth-proof plastic bags for their clothes.

I wash my clothes regularly. I'm careful about food debris. I have frozen some things that were especially eaten. It's all time-consuming and a pain. If no-one can actually explain why vacuum packing is a bad idea, as opposed to being randomly insulting, I'm going to go ahead with that. Thanks for your input! :)

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YABU deal with the moth problem properly. Bags will not stop moths. Those bags from Lakeland are designed for medium/long term storage of clothes not daily use. They are unlikely to be effective or long lasting.