What can I do with Cedar Shavings?

I'm cleaning out the garage. Over a year ago I pulled most of a block of cedar shavings out of a trash pile.  Like this:


I tried to give them to someone with a dog, nope. Tried to make my cat a bed out of them, cat will have nothing to do with it. I need the bag out of the garage. What can I do with them?

I have gardens, sprinkle it in the beds?
There are paths, sprinkle them on paths?
Sprinkle on the lawn?
Make bags and hang them in the house for some reason?
Hang bags in my food storage area?

Suggestion welcome! Please explain what good they will do in a situation, as I really don't know much about them. I know cedar closets keep moths out, and cedar dog beds annoy fleas. Other than that, I know they smell nice. :D
This is really not anything I have ever dealt with.

Thank you!
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I use my cedar chips and wood shavings in my paths.

They burn pretty well too if you need a little tinder to get a fire going.

I can imagine using them to cover up stinky smells or muddy spots too.

You could stuff a scarecrow with them too!

I was going to suggest firestarter too. if you like the smell, make baggies, I also put wood chips in my garden paths where i might later want to turn over the dirt or where I don't want weeds growing. you could also use it as a "pretty mulch" if you have some place you want to look a bit nicer.
Supposedly cedar oils are repellant (or even toxic, depending who you talk to) for small animals (especially rodents) and maybe even insects, so it could be interesting to sprinkle on your garden beds. If you have a squirrel/mole/woodchuck/rabbit problem, it might be useful.
Similarly, it causes skin irritation in some people, so maybe be careful when using it around the garden.

There seem to be a lot of adverts for moth repellent balls and so on for putting in around your clothes.


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I think as Tereza suggested you could make little bags, like lavender bags, to put in drawers and hang in your wardrobe. If you're like me you've got a stash of bits of fabric that "will come in". Either sell them...or make nice little gifts. I usually find men rather difficult to think of nice presents, but I think cedar wood clothes protectors might come in for anyone.
I rather like these ones that are made on a twist:



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I made some sachet type thing and hung them in my back pantry, but still have a LOT of them underfoot. Smaller sachets sound like a lot of work, and I have no place to sell anything .
I am cautious of using them in the garden, as it occurs to me that the local cedars (which are juniperous virginiana, spelling errors possible) are alleopathic.  No clue what type of cedar cheap bales of rodent shavings are made of.

Suggestions? More information than I have?  I need to deal with these.

If they are alleopathic, putting them in paths or other places where you don't want things to grow sounds great. We have incense cedar trees on our property and they don't seem alleopathic at all. It's likely that's what they are as incense cedar is logged and those shavings are a by-product.

Great find Pearl! Those cedar shavings make wonderful stuffing for door snakes to keep out the winter cold. This is an easy sewing project to repurpose old fabrics, shirt sleeves or pant legs. If you want extra weight, add some clean pea gravel or sand to the cedar mix. In the summer, store those stuffed snakes near wool items to keep moths away.

Amy Gardener wrote:Great find Pearl! Those cedar shavings make wonderful stuffing for door snakes to keep out the winter cold. This is an easy sewing project to repurpose old fabrics, shirt sleeves or pant legs. If you want extra weight, add some clean pea gravel or sand to the cedar mix. In the summer, store those stuffed snakes near wool items to keep moths away.

I am considering making a door snake that fits across the back door near the gardens where the step is weird, maybe stop bugs from coming in. Most of them fly in, but I bet some walk, we just notice them less.

Build a small TLUD, burn it and put the resulting char into your compost to season it? I think that would stop the allelopathic tendency because I think that tendency comes from volatile organic compounds which should??? get burned off during the process???
I have done this and not noticed a problem with the resulting compost, but it might be too small a quantity to have shown itself as a problem.

"Build a small TLUD" (trip!)

Whoa, what's a TLUD?

It's always a good day when I learn something...

Top Lit Up Draft  :D

It's a type of high temperature controlled heat fire/cooking stove thing.

Basically you have air coming in the bottom, and it gets the air moving fast to increase the combustion speed and temperature. They are good at fast, hot, complete burning. Very efficient way to burn. Check the Wood Burning Stoves Forum here on permies for more info.

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Cedar shavings are great for horse stalls, so if you have a substantial amount of them (numerous bags) then you might consider passing them along to a friend with a horse.  I sometimes use them for my horse's paddock, to keep it clean and warm for her.  Could also be used int eh garden or even as cat litter.  

We have a number of rescue cats other people threw out by our farm.  I use cedar sawdust in cat pans.  Once the pan is too contaminated, we toss it in our compost pile.  When fresh, it provides a great rodent repellent bush base weed reducer.  As it rots, it becomes a good soil amendment around flower gardens and I expect has sanitized to a harmless compost.  

Cats do seem to like it smaller, so some chopping may be in order.  Cedar varies in odor which impacts how useful it is in repelling insects.  The sachets might use herbs in combination such as lavender, spearmint, marigold and chrysanthemum.  This widens the repellent properties.  I have tons of penny royal in the lawn and mice are supposed to dislike that.  It seems to attract deer, however.