I don’t throw away those silica packs, I keep them in my jewellery boxes that I have all of my sterling silver in, It stops the silver from tarnishing when you’re not wearing it. It works great!
Silica bags that have turned pink are no longer useful in this condition. The pink color indicates that the silica has completely absorbed moisture and can no longer absorb any more. To return them to a useful condition, you must remove the gel from their container and heat them in an oven until the gel turns blue, again. Then you can reuse it to absorb more moisture. Moisture, in close proximity to your jewelry, is not what corrodes it. It is the oxygen present in the air that corrodes your jewelry.. The best way to prevent this is to put your jewelry in an air-proof bag, like a food saver bag used to preserve food, and vacuum seal all the air out of the bag. When the oxygen in the air is totally removed, corrosion will stop.
When the Siliica Gel has been used and is damp, it can be revived by leaving it in a warm oven for half an hour. When not in use, store them in an airtight container.
Another helpful tip; don't throw away aluminum foil. Scrunch it up and sharpen your scissors garden shears etc. Works very well. But be sure to cut through several layers for maximum sharpness. Also works to clean garden tools.
Jeremy Johnson Maybe your god can bless the two million plus children that starve to death every year and the millions more adults that also starve to death. I bet you never read the Bible do you? Because if you did you would know that Jesus killed millions of people in the Bible. If you do not believe me google it. Religious beliefs are ignorant primitive superstition and nothing more grow up.
@@Randy58-zn4ez Everything on Google is not true. I will not argue with you. Faith is all what a person believe in. If not believing in the Lord floats your boat that is what keep you going. But don't kill people joy bro. Just leaving a positive comment can help uplift someone's day.💙💪God Loves You.
1. I've been saving silica gel packets for a long, long time. I have a mesh bag full of them hanging in my gun safe. That's one place I really don't want excess moisture. If I get a packet that says moisture absorber, desiccant or anything else, but it doesn't say silica gel on it, I throw it away. I only keep the silica gel. 2. I throw banana peels, egg shells and all my other garbage, except meat and dairy, in my compost bin. My trash goes out to the curb every week but not my garbage. There IS a difference between them. When I had a dog, the dog poop went in the trash too. Even though I've gone several years without using any compost, the bin never fills up. And most weeks I only have one bag of trash to throw away, so I save money on trash bags whether I use the compost or not.
The silica gel packs can only gather moisture for a finite time until they completely fill with water. Then leaving them in your gun safe is doing absolutely no good. You must remove the silica gel crystals from their containers and dry them in an oven until they turn from a pink color back to a blue color. Then you can reuse them to collect more moisture.
When I collect flower seeds through the summer, after I dry seeds, to store I put a packet in seeds to maintain dryness til following year..I've done this for years..
I always wanted to learn how to draw moisture. Now how do you draw it like does it resemble rain or ice cubes maybe? Do you use colored pencils, charcoal, crayons, spray paint, etc. ?
Silica will help keep pictures safe for years .and you do need to heat them till they dry out .I put some in a old sock and put in the dryer on low .it works for me 👍
Glad today I have about 40 lbs of desiccant in ziplock bags. I had to dry out some firewood after a 12 hour rain. The house was sure cold after 3 days away and I forgot to bring dry wood in before I left.
I didn't know they would still work after using them for decades. That's cool. But how many decades have you been using the same ones? Like 2 decades? Or like 57.5 decades? 🙃 A little New Year's dumb humor 🤗
I keep silca packet in my tool box, Tackle box, In with my hot wheels and about anywhere else I can think to put them. My problem is that I never have enough of them.
At first I thought he about to say something about using silica gel for your eyes. Then he said about aloe vera. I was worried for a moment about what he was going to suggest. lol
Silica bags wear out, they can only absorb so much, when that happens you need to recharge them by heating them up to evaporate the water back out, you can do that in an oven.
This was the best Fact Verse installment yet! I am going to start with the the banana peels tomorrow, (only cause I know I tossed a few out yesterday morning), and then I am heading over to Jerry's to pick up an aloe vera plant. I already do save my silicon packets and I have another use for them. I am a watch wearer and a bit of a collector. I have a collection of my favorites which I have acquired over many years. Since I prefer wound and self-winding as opposed to battery operated I have a "winding box" that displays all of my windable ones. One of the few consistent issues there is with watches is the negative effects which moisture has on them. Everyone I know who has a collection has lamented as to how "water got in" and a prized item was ruined, in some cases beyond repair. Except (thankfully) me. The only reason I have not had an issue is because of those silly packets. My winding box as well as every individually boxed watch I have has at least one of those wonderful silicone packets in it. If I am storing anything from shoes to suits to larger items around the house (grandmom's dinner table she left you or even better some rugs you roll up for examples) including a few of those bags before you put all items away will give you a little more piece of mind and, unless ingested or set ablaze, can not hurt to include in one's storage. Use them often with everything you have. The worst thing that might happen is when you reach into a pocket of a jacket you were properly storing you will find a wee guard in the form of the packet of silicone who has been keeping watch over your goods while you were out.
I have a container that I keep all my silica gel packs. Whenever I buy a new pair of shoes, I add a bag in the toe of each shoe to keep them dry between wearings. I also keep a few in my gym bag for my "gym only" shoes and more to keep the moisture out. I also replace the packs once a week or so with fresh ones and allow the removed ones to dry until I use them again.
Of all the fruits in the entire planet, the humble and ordinary banana is my number 1 favorite. Coming from an ordinary, poor family, we had banana and papaya as our fruits all the year round, being handy as my father planted them all around our nipa and bamboo home together with moringa trees. Having been used to its taste, I learned to love them. When I left my country to work and practice my profession, I began to venture tasting other fruits and found them agreeable to my taste too but one incident at work left my dominant arm incapable of doing simple ordinary household chores. Living alone and on my own abroad, this led me to make smoothie instead of having some home-cooked stir-fry vegetables. I survived on my banana-honey-peanut butter-almond milk smoothie. From then on my favoritism towards banana had been concreted. Another thing: for me this is the most "sanitary" fruit. As long as the peel is still whole and not damaged, open or cut, even if transported to wherever it may go, it's still "sterile" inside and one can eat it without contaminating the fruit by touching it with one's fingers. Thank you, Lord for this sweet-smelling and sweet-tasting humble banana!
I come upon them frequently while working at a big box home improvement store where I work while putting out the packaging into the trash. I grab them up and put them into my food dehydrator during a run. Then, vacuum seal them in glass jars for later use. Great for adding to what ever I want to be safe from slight moisture exposure of my things while in storage until I use them. I retain the packets and reuse them over and over and over again.
You can get silica gel in reusable containers. They come in metal round containers that have perforations that can be exposed or closed. The purpose of silica gel is to absorb water or moisture or humidity. When they fill with water they turn pink. Then you put them in an oven for a little while and they turn blue, ready to absorb again. I use to put camera lenses and bodies in vacuum sealed bags with each bag containing one silica container. This would protect the camera"s and lenses from mildew deterioration.
a lot of mis information unfortunately. You can't safe your phone with this silica gel. Yes it will absorb moisture, but it won't pull the moisture out of you phone. Leaving the battery attached and not taking adequate action will mean your phone will be beyond repair... A very stupid tip...
Dont need to cover the phone just put 3-4 (or however many you have) silica packs in a ziploc bag with phone. I get them from work so it is easy to collect without realizing how many would otherwise be thrown away. If you stick a clearly marked box on the corner of your desk you will quickly be inundated with rubber bands paper clips silica and various reusable products.
Sorry, such lovely people & culture...Irish German so ya know, stubborn, bullheaded & poor as I've lived by my heart. Didn't make the life I hoped. Had to learn to be practical IOWs frugal.
I keep the gel packs out of my probiotic and keep a couple in my sugar container for my coffee. Have been doing this for three years, and never get lumps or clumps in my sugar.
YES!!! Silica packets are great to save: tool box, tackle box, travel shave kit/toiletries bag, fishing/hunting accessories, gun safe, ammo boxes.... Aloe: always have a plant in my home. Great for all types of burns. Cut a leaf and filet the skin off, then rub the inner ''meat'' on the burn, also insect/spider bites.
Egg shells has calcium, but not bio-available. You need to first chelate it to use as a fertilizer - otherwise it is a soil additive that would need some essential soil bacteria to produce sulfuric acid to slowly decompose and become bio-available. Egg shell calcium can be chelated using vinegar - but needs to be properly diluted before use. It is very helpful for plants like tomatoes, but otherwise no need to supplement with Ca for all plants.
Phone getting wet, as with any electrical/electronic device, immediately turn it off (removing power source is better, except many phone batteries can no longer be removed) then attempt the rice or silica bead attempt. you can tell if rice is still dry whereas silica bags (especially if in items from overseas, as they most likely have seen their fair share of humidity already) are cryptic in their condition.
Many ladies I've known buy NEW wardrobes seasonally. They rarely "save" old garments because they want to be in synch with the current "fashion". They either discard or donate the "old" ones to needier women and girls.
I keep them in my car and when my baby has an accident or a spill & I change their clothes. I drop them in a bag with them so they don’t mold before I get home because down here in Louisiana, ITS HOT AND HUMID. mold happens between the house and the grocery store🤷🏽♀️
Silica packets in general contain silicon dioxide, which isn't toxic. It's chemically inert when ingested in this form and the reason the bags say DO NOT EAT is because people choke on them. Not because they're poison. I mean it's toxic if you inhale the stuff in a fine powder... The ones with indicating colors are toxic though. The indicating colors vary in toxicity, but you should be careful around those.
I have been told you can use the salt we use to melt snow to absorb moisture too..put some in a bottle to dry out terrariums if the environment is to human for certain lizards..ya just gotta be VERY cautious to make sure your critter can't get to the salt to eat it.
ditto.. been keeping for about 10yrs, keep in all my drawers, and shoes, and made some bags to hang off hangers with them in, 2 socks full on the dash in my car,..the perks of shop work hey, crap pay free silica?!
There is a test for silica gel you buy, it's pink with blue.whensaturatrd, blue turns whitish-pink .then,you can warm it in the oven till blue come up again.with sushets you do it by trial and error.
The ones that change color may be especially toxic, but you'll know when they are ineffective dessicate. • Do not go over 300-degrees in the standard oven or 900-watts*3 minutes in a microwave. You will damage the silica gel and it will lose its absorbency. Drying in bulk may require 24 hours. •Heating the packets over 245-degrees will damage the packaging.
I keep all of my silica bags in a zip lock sandwich bag for when i need them.. I always knew about the banana peels for fertilizer. My mom and grandmother always used, banana peels, coffee grinds, and egg shells to give nutrients to their gardens . I just wish there was a measurement for the epsom salt.. VERY informative video
I live at the coast, which means that I live in an extremely moist area, especially when combined with the subtropical area where I live. I also make jewelry and I NEVER EVER throw these packets away, as they are absolute life savers and jewelry savers, because they keep the moisture OUT of my jewelry that is ready to sell and out of my beads, gemstones, sterling silver and pearls. Over the years I have found so VERY many uses for the packets such as, put them in your sneakers directly after use, to remove moisture and to keep your tennies fresh smelling. The uses are endless, you need only to think of moisture and you find dozens of uses!
The silica gel bags are filled with a substance called silicon dioxide, a non-toxic inert desiccant that has the power to dry out moisture. Silicon Dioxide is part of what makes up Sand.
The ones that change color may be especially toxic, but you'll know by the color change when they are ineffective dessicate. • Do not go over 300-degrees in the standard oven. You will damage the silica gel and it will lose its absorbency. Drying in bulk may require baking 24 hours. •Heating the packets over 245-degrees or 900-watts*3 minutes in a microwave will damage the packaging.
Or you can just throw them in the garbage and use kitty litter. Kitty litter doesn't say "do not eat" So you are free to snack on it while ridding moisture
I was hoping for some great alternative use for the silica packs. Already knew they protect items from moisture. I have a shoebox full. It’s a very dry shoebox.
Well darn! Wish I known about the packet before now because I got some damage items in my storage because some kind of way moisture got into it and promoted molding. sigh
These silica bags will have no effect unless they are first dehydrated in an oven and then placed in a sealed container with the object that you want to keep dry.
I'm an antique book collector, but I live in a rainy state, until I can find a place that's drier, I keep my books in a container with a bunch of the silica packs.
I remember my old car getting flooded and I was able to buy huge bags of silica gel desiccants for very cheap. They were like 3-4 lbs each! Sadly there was just too much water, but those bags were heavier than when I put them in!
Why do you think they sell orange or banana boosters for use in the hydroponic systems at the store. There are other "juices" like grape and even off things like cotton candy boosters. Good stuff!!
@@im2cutesosueme121 Yea that's true now my babies gonna grow even better lol. I turned 1 plant into a female plant by clipping the top now its growing outwards instead of tall.
Yup, yup. Careful trimming will have her bush out heavily in all directions. I had a mother that took up 4ft x 4ft of space. The babies were strong because of the nutrients I gave her. I used banana for the most part but came across some cotton candy. Turned out like banana cotton candy in the end.
@@im2cutesosueme121 Damn that's a crazy mix girl I just might experiment with my babies lol. And if you not a girl my bad lol yo name just looks like a girl would say iam2CuteSoSueMe lol.
It's only the blue beads that absorb water. You are able to regenerate the beads by prolonged warming them up in order to drive the water out until they regain the blue colour.
It depends on where the gym bag is. In a swimming pool, yes you need a lot of packs. But if you are using your gum bag in the desert you will probably need less
Hey guys. We should use uncooked noodles for straws instead of metal or rubber ones. When you are done drinking with your noodle straw, you can throw it into the ocean, that way, the turtles can have something to eat. Seriously, dont actually do this please!
It's not the water that damages cellphones, it's the impurities in the water that damages them. And by absorbing the water, the impurities (mainly acidic salts) get concentrated, and just destroy the phone faster. An alcohol bath (alcohol isn't water) may fix it - by diluting the salts and washing them out of the phone. (May - if the phone is already too damaged to work, even that won't fix it.)
Gm edagdwg thanks for sharing this story of what happens when you use these things God bless you soooooo blessed to get gifts sooooo small Linda j peace
Silica gel use: put in tool boxes. When working in the SE U.S., we got some very expensive telco equipment that had silica gel packs the size of about 2 decks of cards in their packing. With the high humidity in the SE, I started saving the packs and put them in my tool boxes to keep rust to a minimum. Seem to really work, still have them.-fyi
Silica gel is not toxic but some silica gel is treated with cobalt(II) chloride as a moisture indicator. Blue granules are "dry" and they turn pink when hydrated. That is why it says "do not eat" on the little sachet.
you forgot the most useful of attributes. foot powder, , , grind it up into a powder, treat athletes foot. LIGHTLY dust your toes, and a small pinch in each shoe daily for a week or so will cure it. if the inside of shoe starts feeling slippery your using to much. little tiny pinch is all it takes
Before you reuse a silica bag. Heat them in an oven at 150-200 degrees for about 30 minutes to drive out any moisture they're already holding. After heating them put them in a jar and put a lid on it to keep them dry until you want to use them.
I don’t throw away those silica packs, I keep them in my jewellery boxes that I have all of my sterling silver in, It stops the silver from tarnishing when you’re not wearing it. It works great!
Wow that is great! You catch up the plan...
My toolbox
Great idea!! Thanks
Wow! I never knew that. Will try it now.
Silica bags that have turned pink are no longer useful in this condition. The pink color indicates that the silica has completely absorbed moisture and can no longer absorb any more. To return them to a useful condition, you must remove the gel from their container and heat them in an oven until the gel turns blue, again. Then you can reuse it to absorb more moisture. Moisture, in close proximity to your jewelry, is not what corrodes it. It is the oxygen present in the air that corrodes your jewelry.. The best way to prevent this is to put your jewelry in an air-proof bag, like a food saver bag used to preserve food, and vacuum seal all the air out of the bag. When the oxygen in the air is totally removed, corrosion will stop.
When the Siliica Gel has been used and is damp, it can be revived by leaving it in
a warm oven for half an hour. When not in use, store them in an airtight container.
Thank you
Another helpful tip; don't throw away aluminum foil. Scrunch it up and sharpen your scissors garden shears etc. Works very well. But be sure to cut through several layers for maximum sharpness. Also works to clean garden tools.
May God bless whoever is having a hard time in life.🙏
Amen
Thank you. The fact that a stranger cares means alot.
@@stephenperry1299 💙💪
Jeremy Johnson Maybe your god can bless the two million plus children that starve to death every year and the millions more adults that also starve to death. I bet you never read the Bible do you? Because if you did you would know that Jesus killed millions of people in the Bible. If you do not believe me google it. Religious beliefs are ignorant primitive superstition and nothing more grow up.
@@Randy58-zn4ez Everything on Google is not true. I will not argue with you. Faith is all what a person believe in. If not believing in the Lord floats your boat that is what keep you going. But don't kill people joy bro. Just leaving a positive comment can help uplift someone's day.💙💪God Loves You.
1. I've been saving silica gel packets for a long, long time. I have a mesh bag full of them hanging in my gun safe. That's one place I really don't want excess moisture. If I get a packet that says moisture absorber, desiccant or anything else, but it doesn't say silica gel on it, I throw it away. I only keep the silica gel. 2. I throw banana peels, egg shells and all my other garbage, except meat and dairy, in my compost bin. My trash goes out to the curb every week but not my garbage. There IS a difference between them. When I had a dog, the dog poop went in the trash too. Even though I've gone several years without using any compost, the bin never fills up. And most weeks I only have one bag of trash to throw away, so I save money on trash bags whether I use the compost or not.
The silica gel packs can only gather moisture for a finite time until they completely fill with water. Then leaving them in your gun safe is doing absolutely no good. You must remove the silica gel crystals from their containers and dry them in an oven until they turn from a pink color back to a blue color. Then you can reuse them to collect more moisture.
Merry Christmas in Advance to anyone reading this. may you have a healthy and prosperous new year
Thank you the same to you. This Christmas is especially hard for me as my wife of 44 years passed away October of 2020
Yoo too.
... straight back at ya! ☃
@@charlespuppi4289 Condolences on your loss.
@@twinkletoes.9968 thank you very much
When I collect flower seeds through the summer, after I dry seeds, to store I put a packet in seeds to maintain dryness til following year..I've done this for years..
Great! who thought you the plan...?
Have you done this with crop seeds?
Cool thanks I have some morning glory seeds in a bottle.
Great idea! Thank you
I use the silica gel bags for homemade snow globes. Open them up..dump them in the water. They make awesome snow!!
I have been saving the silica bags for yrs, they’re great to draw moisture from anything! It really does work! I keep them in a zip lock baggy...
I always wanted to learn how to draw moisture. Now how do you draw it like does it resemble rain or ice cubes maybe? Do you use colored pencils, charcoal, crayons, spray paint, etc. ?
Silica will help keep pictures safe for years .and you do need to heat them till they dry out .I put some in a old sock and put in the dryer on low .it works for me 👍
Glad today I have about 40 lbs of desiccant in ziplock bags. I had to dry out some firewood after a 12 hour rain. The house was sure cold after 3 days away and I forgot to bring dry wood in before I left.
I have been saving them & using them for decades.
I didn't know they would still work after using them for decades. That's cool. But how many decades have you been using the same ones? Like 2 decades? Or like 57.5 decades?
🙃 A little New Year's dumb humor 🤗
I keep silca packet in my tool box, Tackle box, In with my hot wheels and about anywhere else I can think to put them. My problem is that I never have enough of them.
I throw a few of those silica desiccant bags in each drawer of my tool boxes, and in electronic tool cases.
it jumped from silica bags to aloe vera for you eyes I was so confused for a moment LOL LOL
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At first I thought he about to say something about using silica gel for your eyes. Then he said about aloe vera. I was worried for a moment about what he was going to suggest. lol
@@BigHarryBalzac 😂😂
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Silica bags wear out, they can only absorb so much, when that happens you need to recharge them by heating them up to evaporate the water back out, you can do that in an oven.
I ate a few once because I thought they were candy. Had to have my stomach pumped.
This was the best Fact Verse installment yet! I am going to start with the the banana peels tomorrow, (only cause I know I tossed a few out yesterday morning), and then I am heading over to Jerry's to pick up an aloe vera plant. I already do save my silicon packets and I have another use for them.
I am a watch wearer and a bit of a collector. I have a collection of my favorites which I have acquired over many years. Since I prefer wound and self-winding as opposed to battery operated I have a "winding box" that displays all of my windable ones. One of the few consistent issues there is with watches is the negative effects which moisture has on them. Everyone I know who has a collection has lamented as to how "water got in" and a prized item was ruined, in some cases beyond repair. Except (thankfully) me. The only reason I have not had an issue is because of those silly packets.
My winding box as well as every individually boxed watch I have has at least one of those wonderful silicone packets in it. If I am storing anything from shoes to suits to larger items around the house (grandmom's dinner table she left you or even better some rugs you roll up for examples) including a few of those bags before you put all items away will give you a little more piece of mind and, unless ingested or set ablaze, can not hurt to include in one's storage.
Use them often with everything you have. The worst thing that might happen is when you reach into a pocket of a jacket you were properly storing you will find a wee guard in the form of the packet of silicone who has been keeping watch over your goods while you were out.
I have a container that I keep all my silica gel packs. Whenever I buy a new pair of shoes, I add a bag in the toe of each shoe to keep them dry between wearings. I also keep a few in my gym bag for my "gym only" shoes and more to keep the moisture out. I also replace the packs once a week or so with fresh ones and allow the removed ones to dry until I use them again.
I've always saved these to put inside my vintage Coach bags after restoration.
I’ve heard banana peels work too.
@@philstone3859 - ExActlY!
& Abby, since you are already using
Aloe Vera, ye might give the silica a spin.
I put them in my sweet jar, to stop the sweets from getting sticky ...:)
I used to put them w/ my vcr tapes.
Happy happy Christmas in advance to who ever is reading my comment God bless you
You too
Same to you
I don't celebrate Christmas.
Same to you
Merry Christmas to you too n blessings! Ty!
Of all the fruits in the entire planet, the humble and ordinary banana is my number 1 favorite. Coming from an ordinary, poor family, we had banana and papaya as our fruits all the year round, being handy as my father planted them all around our nipa and bamboo home together with moringa trees. Having been used to its taste, I learned to love them. When I left my country to work and practice my profession, I began to venture tasting other fruits and found them agreeable to my taste too but one incident at work left my dominant arm incapable of doing simple ordinary household chores. Living alone and on my own abroad, this led me to make smoothie instead of having some home-cooked stir-fry vegetables. I survived on my banana-honey-peanut butter-almond milk smoothie. From then on my favoritism towards banana had been concreted. Another thing: for me this is the most "sanitary" fruit. As long as the peel is still whole and not damaged, open or cut, even if transported to wherever it may go, it's still "sterile" inside and one can eat it without contaminating the fruit by touching it with one's fingers. Thank you, Lord for this sweet-smelling and sweet-tasting humble banana!
I come upon them frequently while working at a big box home improvement store where I work while putting out the packaging into the trash. I grab them up and put them into my food dehydrator during a run. Then, vacuum seal them in glass jars for later use. Great for adding to what ever I want to be safe from slight moisture exposure of my things while in storage until I use them. I retain the packets and reuse them over and over and over again.
You can get silica gel in reusable containers. They come in metal round containers that have perforations that can be exposed or closed. The purpose of silica gel is to absorb water or moisture or humidity. When they fill with water they turn pink. Then you put them in an oven for a little while and they turn blue, ready to absorb again. I use to put camera lenses and bodies in vacuum sealed bags with each bag containing one silica container. This would protect the camera"s and lenses from mildew deterioration.
Bodies?
@@shannonm.townsend1232 Cameras without lenses attached are called "bodies".
@@jameskoralewski1006 o, photog jargon
Would silica gel beads have a place in a modern day mummification toolbox
@@shannonm.townsend1232 Only if you could get the mummy to dry them out in an oven and get them to turn from pink to blue again.
When he started talking about how to help your eyesight, I thought he was going to say put silica in your eyes 😆
Me too🙂😂
Lol
I literally laughed out loud
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That was some. Of the BEST INFORMATION I have EVER gotten. THANKS
a lot of mis information unfortunately. You can't safe your phone with this silica gel. Yes it will absorb moisture, but it won't pull the moisture out of you phone. Leaving the battery attached and not taking adequate action will mean your phone will be beyond repair... A very stupid tip...
Would need way too many SiO2 bags to cover a phone. Burying it in rice for three days does the same job.
Dont need to cover the phone just put 3-4 (or however many you have) silica packs in a ziploc bag with phone. I get them from work so it is easy to collect without realizing how many would otherwise be thrown away. If you stick a clearly marked box on the corner of your desk you will quickly be inundated with rubber bands paper clips silica and various reusable products.
3 DAYS! HaHa
Silica bags do wonders when growing shrooms and drying them out
So does a food dehydrator
Since I don't make many purchases, it may be a while collecting those packets. If you drop phone into water, try using rice to draw moisture out.
Kate you sound like a Jamaican lol
It's known worldwide tho
Sorry, such lovely people & culture...Irish German so ya know, stubborn, bullheaded & poor as I've lived by my heart. Didn't make the life I hoped. Had to learn to be practical IOWs frugal.
Why does she sound Jamaican I don't make many purchases either
Me too Kate Irish and German traced back lineages by my Aunt she was trying to find our stubbornness lol
You can also use silica for drying out flowers.
Good idea. I wonder if they'll work on soaking up the huge amount of blood I have all over my basement 🤔
You can also use the jell packed in tackle box to keep your equipment from rusting
Don't drain your swimming pool... Just toss in a few silica packets!
Your comment is just plain silly. For draining a pool we all know you need more than a few silica bags. Five or six maybe. 🙃
Then we can skate your pool!!!!
I fill my pool with aloe juice. It keeps the pool healthy and clean.
JUST LOVE THOSE COMMERCIAL BREAKS EVERY FEW MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't see any..lol.. I'm not like most people..I pay $11.99 UA-cam red..I don't have to watch any..
I keep the gel packs out of my probiotic and keep a couple in my sugar container for my coffee. Have been doing this for three years, and never get lumps or clumps in my sugar.
Same here
I stir it in my coffee and it helps the creamer and sugar to mix properly
YES!!! Silica packets are great to save: tool box, tackle box, travel shave kit/toiletries bag, fishing/hunting accessories, gun safe, ammo boxes.... Aloe: always have a plant in my home. Great for all types of burns. Cut a leaf and filet the skin off, then rub the inner ''meat'' on the burn, also insect/spider bites.
I use them for all my vinyl record collection so they don't get moldy and warped while in the closet.
I"ve been saving those silica bags already for a long time, great for packing things long term, etc.
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Thank you.. co'z we've learned a lot from those videos you've showed to us.. KEEP IT UP.. 👍👌
Yes, a video on how to KEEP IT UP could be useful for some.
Some mighty fine looking plants in this video.
At 6:06 he's talking about banana peels for fertilizer and he shows a marijuana field. LOVE IT. :-D
I caught that too 😂😂
@@hiediarmentrout6552 I knew I wasn’t trippin 😂
@@johndior1155 RIGHT 😂😂 I actually rewound it twice to make sure That is what I was seeing 🙄🤔😂
Egg shells has calcium, but not bio-available. You need to first chelate it to use as a fertilizer - otherwise it is a soil additive that would need some essential soil bacteria to produce sulfuric acid to slowly decompose and become bio-available. Egg shell calcium can be chelated using vinegar - but needs to be properly diluted before use. It is very helpful for plants like tomatoes, but otherwise no need to supplement with Ca for all plants.
I have been using them inside of my Truck. I appreciate them.
That's sweet
From silica gel packets to fruit peels, cool!
6:06 Those banana peels grew some pretty nice buds.
Did you know that if you eat banana peels you will have a banana tree grow in your stomach? Please don't eat the banana peels. Or the silica packets.
@@tiffanyshanley1419 That happened to me after eating a peanut with a shell on it. I was going nuts for weeks.
Silica gel packs are good in your jewelery box stops silver and gold tarnishing
Phone getting wet, as with any electrical/electronic device, immediately turn it off (removing power source is better, except many phone batteries can no longer be removed) then attempt the rice or silica bead attempt. you can tell if rice is still dry whereas silica bags (especially if in items from overseas, as they most likely have seen their fair share of humidity already) are cryptic in their condition.
Many ladies I've known buy NEW wardrobes seasonally. They rarely "save" old garments because they want to be in synch with the current "fashion". They either discard or donate the "old" ones to needier women and girls.
These descendants will absorb moisture in open air to a maximum capacity. You can dry them in the oven and reuse them effectively
I keep them in my car and when my baby has an accident or a spill & I change their clothes. I drop them in a bag with them so they don’t mold before I get home because down here in Louisiana, ITS HOT AND HUMID. mold happens between the house and the grocery store🤷🏽♀️
Silica packets in general contain silicon dioxide, which isn't toxic. It's chemically inert when ingested in this form and the reason the bags say DO NOT EAT is because people choke on them. Not because they're poison. I mean it's toxic if you inhale the stuff in a fine powder...
The ones with indicating colors are toxic though. The indicating colors vary in toxicity, but you should be careful around those.
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Not only save them, but after normal use, recharge them with a minute or so in the microwave. It drives off the absorbed moisture.
I have been told you can use the salt we use to melt snow to absorb moisture too..put some in a bottle to dry out terrariums if the environment is to human for certain lizards..ya just gotta be VERY cautious to make sure your critter can't get to the salt to eat it.
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In a van down by the river? That's where Chris Farley used to live. But he needed more cowbell
I work at a retail and I'm definitely gonna keep those bags now
ditto.. been keeping for about 10yrs, keep in all my drawers, and shoes, and made some bags to hang off hangers with them in, 2 socks full on the dash in my car,..the perks of shop work hey, crap pay free silica?!
I put them the case with my personnel protection devices.
Great use for them. I now look forward to finding the little bags for that very reason.
Do you mean firearms or condoms?
I keep silica packs in my jewelry box to keep my silver from tarnishing.
Yes! 👍
They can only absorb so much and generally do not last. There is a test for them but I dont know how.
There is a test for silica gel you buy, it's pink with blue.whensaturatrd, blue turns whitish-pink .then,you can warm it in the oven till blue come up again.with sushets you do it by trial and error.
Bull crap. You can soak them endlessly as when water evaporates it’s returned to its original state.
The ones that change color may be especially toxic, but you'll know when they are ineffective dessicate.
• Do not go over 300-degrees in the standard oven or 900-watts*3 minutes in a microwave. You will damage the silica gel and it will lose its absorbency. Drying in bulk may require 24 hours.
•Heating the packets over 245-degrees will damage the packaging.
Yeah! I do have those packages full of a case! They play good role in many things....!
The same thing can be done with rice ............and it won't harm you if consumed.
Be much harder to keep clothes, gymn bags, shoes etc. fresh with rice though.
Yeah, i put some rice in an old sock and tie a knot in it and put it in wardrobes etc
I keep all of my silica bags in a zip lock sandwich bag for when i need them.. I always knew about the banana peels for fertilizer. My mom and grandmother always used, banana peels, coffee grinds, and egg shells to give nutrients to their gardens . I just wish there was a measurement for the epsom salt.. VERY informative video
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I regret throwing those things. I didn't realize it. Ooohh
I keep silca packets in my guitar cases. Keeps my guitars moisuter free. Especially living in a area with high humidity.
Great tip, Elliott!
I live at the coast, which means that I live in an extremely moist area, especially when combined with the subtropical area where I live. I also make jewelry and I NEVER EVER throw these packets away, as they are absolute life savers and jewelry savers, because they keep the moisture OUT of my jewelry that is ready to sell and out of my beads, gemstones, sterling silver and pearls. Over the years I have found so VERY many uses for the packets such as, put them in your sneakers directly after use, to remove moisture and to keep your tennies fresh smelling. The uses are endless, you need only to think of moisture and you find dozens of uses!
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I have a literal metric butt ton of those silica gel packs. I use them to dry my work boots. Works great.
The silica gel bags are filled with a substance called silicon dioxide, a non-toxic inert desiccant that has the power to dry out moisture. Silicon Dioxide is part of what makes up Sand.
Merry Christmas to all hope you all have a good Christmas 😊
It is awesome to learn about why they don't throw sillica bags away
When silica gel is saturated w/ water, you need to heat it up to regenerate its water absorption properties.
The ones that change color may be especially toxic, but you'll know by the color change when they are ineffective dessicate.
• Do not go over 300-degrees in the standard oven. You will damage the silica gel and it will lose its absorbency. Drying in bulk may require baking 24 hours.
•Heating the packets over 245-degrees or 900-watts*3 minutes in a microwave will damage the packaging.
Or you can just throw them in the garbage and use kitty litter. Kitty litter doesn't say "do not eat" So you are free to snack on it while ridding moisture
I am putting that silica gel inside my fridge to remove the unpleasant odor of the fridge...it works really!!
Cheaper with Baking Soda
Fact Verse goes off topic from those little bags to Alevera and banana peels
I was hoping for some great alternative use for the silica packs. Already knew they protect items from moisture. I have a shoebox full. It’s a very dry shoebox.
I use them to protect my audio gear!
Silica bags are shipped in containers that are airtight or almost airtight. Silica bags out in the open will not work for long at all.
You're right! I think that putting them in your closet to keep clothes dry is a bunch of baloney.
I throw them in my tool boxes and gun safe
Well darn! Wish I known about the packet before now because I got some damage items in my storage because some kind of way moisture got into it and promoted molding. sigh
These silica bags will have no effect unless they are first dehydrated in an oven and then placed in a sealed container with the object that you want to keep dry.
I was looking through the commets for someone to say this.
I'm an antique book collector, but I live in a rainy state, until I can find a place that's drier, I keep my books in a container with a bunch of the silica packs.
I literally just threw away one 😂
I put silica bags in my ammo boxes to store ammo. Keeps ammo dry.
I've got about 80 of them, and I reload my ammunition, they all have a home in ammo cans, works wonders.
Food saver vacuum bags. Water tight.
@@markdurand9076 a good ammo can is water and air tight too, with added benefits of not needing a knife in a shtf scenario.
I remember my old car getting flooded and I was able to buy huge bags of silica gel desiccants for very cheap. They were like 3-4 lbs each! Sadly there was just too much water, but those bags were heavier than when I put them in!
Thanks for the new ingredient for my weed plants. Facts Verse you are the best lol.
Why do you think they sell orange or banana boosters for use in the hydroponic systems at the store. There are other "juices" like grape and even off things like cotton candy boosters. Good stuff!!
@@im2cutesosueme121 Yea that's true now my babies gonna grow even better lol. I turned 1 plant into a female plant by clipping the top now its growing outwards instead of tall.
Yup, yup. Careful trimming will have her bush out heavily in all directions. I had a mother that took up 4ft x 4ft of space. The babies were strong because of the nutrients I gave her. I used banana for the most part but came across some cotton candy. Turned out like banana cotton candy in the end.
@@im2cutesosueme121 Damn that's a crazy mix girl I just might experiment with my babies lol. And if you not a girl my bad lol yo name just looks like a girl would say iam2CuteSoSueMe lol.
Did u know u could also put egg shells in the plants n that will also help your plants grow as well
It's only the blue beads that absorb water. You are able to regenerate the beads by prolonged warming them up in order to drive the water out until they regain the blue colour.
this compost tea is delicious!
You'd need 100s of these to absorb water in a gym bag
It depends on where the gym bag is. In a swimming pool, yes you need a lot of packs. But if you are using your gum bag in the desert you will probably need less
I put them in my kitchen cabinet and utensil drawers.
@6:06. Big ups for the hemp plantation-cannabis!
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Hey guys. We should use uncooked noodles for straws instead of metal or rubber ones. When you are done drinking with your noodle straw, you can throw it into the ocean, that way, the turtles can have something to eat.
Seriously, dont actually do this please!
It's not the water that damages cellphones, it's the impurities in the water that damages them. And by absorbing the water, the impurities (mainly acidic salts) get concentrated, and just destroy the phone faster. An alcohol bath (alcohol isn't water) may fix it - by diluting the salts and washing them out of the phone. (May - if the phone is already too damaged to work, even that won't fix it.)
What? Water conducts electricity and can cause a short between electrical components.
I always wonder who would want to eat silica desiccant. Can you imagine how much ketchup you'd have to use?
actually they are healthy for you. they taste good mixed in with banana peels!
They taste really good surprisingly! I just ate three of them and i'm goin -ack-going t -ack-uhggg- THUMP!
But do they taste better than Tide pods?
LES with tide pods it isn't about the taste. Dude.
Prob teenage boys on UA-cam🤣
Gm edagdwg thanks for sharing this story of what happens when you use these things God bless you soooooo blessed to get gifts sooooo small Linda j peace
Was that weed plants?! 😂😂
Silica gel use: put in tool boxes. When working in the SE U.S., we got some very expensive telco equipment that had silica gel packs the size of about 2 decks of cards in their packing. With the high humidity in the SE, I started saving the packs and put them in my tool boxes to keep rust to a minimum. Seem to really work, still have them.-fyi
"Silica gel." Not "silica." The "gel" is not optional. Silica is a different thing.
Silica gel is not toxic but some silica gel is treated with cobalt(II) chloride as a moisture indicator. Blue granules are "dry" and they turn pink when hydrated. That is why it says "do not eat" on the little sachet.
I use my silica to dry flowers that I use in dried arrangements . Drying flowers in silica keep 85%of the colors.
you forgot the most useful of attributes. foot powder, , , grind it up into a powder, treat athletes foot. LIGHTLY dust your toes, and a small pinch in each shoe daily for a week or so will cure it. if the inside of shoe starts feeling slippery your using to much. little tiny pinch is all it takes
Before you reuse a silica bag. Heat them in an oven at 150-200 degrees for about 30 minutes to drive out any moisture they're already holding. After heating them put them in a jar and put a lid on it to keep them dry until you want to use them.