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Silica Gel Pack Hacks: Those Little Mystery Bags are Actually Useful

Keep Your Gym Bag Odorless

Problem: Your gym bag gets really smelly really fast.

Solution: Put silica gel packets in your gym bag and let them do their magic. They’ll pull the moisture out and leave your items a lot fresher.

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Source: Janine Ngai for LittleThings

That bag you take to the gym gets pretty funky, right? It’s all those damp and sweaty towels and clothes and even shoes that you jam in there and don’t always take out when you get home. The smells come from bacteria that thrive on moisture. So if you rid the moisture, you rid the smell! Oh, and these are good for gym lockers, too.