Silica gel packets are the kind of thing most people toss in the trash without a second thought, yet a growing number of professionals are quietly stashing them away for later. By treating those “do ...

Those crinkly little packets that fall out of new shoes and Amazon boxes have long gone straight from packaging to trash can.

Accidents happen. If you drop your phone into water, you might scramble to put it into a bag of rice, as the internet instructs you to do. It is supposed to help draw out excess moisture from the ...

Avid book readers and collectors have a new reason to keep the silica packets that come with many products, thanks to a very brief but informative TikTok post from Brooke (@brookesbooks13_). The scoop ...

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