{"id":9069,"date":"2025-06-01T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2025-06-01T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:25:42","slug":"stop-throwing-out-silica-gel-packets-here-are-9-surprising-things-you-never-knew-you-could-do-with-silica-gel-packets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=9069","title":{"rendered":"Stop throwing out silica gel packets. Here are 9 surprising things you never knew you could do with silica gel packets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2719.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2719.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_2719-250x300.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Save your phone<br>Separate your phone and battery. Place both into a sealable baggie with as many silica gel packets as you can find. Seal the bag and let it set until morning. (It sure beats wasting an entire bag of rice!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Protect your leather shoes<br>Toss a few silica gel packets into your leather shoes (or even sports shoes) to suck out the moisture and keep them from getting moldy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Dry your swimsuit<br>Try tossing a few of these packets into a zip lock bag with your damp swimsuit to suck out the moisture on the fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Protect your books<br>Keep your older books from getting musty by placing a silica gel pack in the cover. You can also place the book into a baggy with the packets to remove any musty smell that\u2019s already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Keep your window clea<br>Your windshield fogs up with moisture when the air and temperature combine just the right way. Prevent the foggy windshield by keeping these packets on the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Dry flowers<br>You\u2019ll need a lot of those gel packets for this one (or you can supplement with silica from the craft store). After carefully trimming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>your flowers and covering them with the silica gel, they\u2019ll come out dry, but look fresh and pretty. See the full tutorial from Mohans Rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Keep your pumpkin fresh<br>If your Halloween pal molds and rots too quickly, try tossing a few silica gel packs inside the carved pumpkin. It will keep moisture at bay and keep your<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jack-\u2018o-lantern mold-free a little longer. (Bonus: the gel packs aren\u2019t flammable so you should be okay to light your jack\u2013o-lantern as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Keep your seeds safe<br>If you\u2019re storing seeds to plant next season, you\u2019ll want to keep moisture as far away possible. Store your seeds in a shoe box with one packet to keep them safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Save your phoneSeparate your phone and battery. Place both into a sealable baggie with as many silica gel packets as you can find. Seal the bag&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}