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So Mrs Wife (a member of that "they") found my silica gel capsule collection, accumulated from vitamins, medications, and various sundry other things that are best kept un-soggy.
She wants me to get rid of it - even though it was years in the making. An idea I had to collect something that (perhaps) no one else collected.
"They" typically own tons of shoes - that's OK to them - but if I want to collect something? No understanding whatsoever.
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You can dry and reuse it: ~150C for 2~3 hours will do.
I keep some in the car in winter to help reduce the screen misting up overnight.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Reconditioning: back in real life (i.e., chemistry) we would recondition our drying agents (such as DryRite) the we used in desiccators (used for storage, not making dried fruit).
But - back to your post. Either you've a very tiny car or the entire back seat is filled with these things.
This, too, may work and it's easier. Works in bathroom for several showers. rub a thin layer of soap over the desired area until it again appears transparent. That is, a bit of bar soap smeared with a slightly wet towel or, if you can figure out a good concentration, some soapy water. It needs to be only a very thin layer.
Also good to leave "secret" nice messages for Mrs. and maybe get "a little extra" that night . . .
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Cut your losses, click OK.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I too have a silica gel capsule collection. It has proven useful over the years for well... keeping stuff dry.
Difficult choice. The SO or the useful collection.
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Actually, not that kind of collection. It has no utilitarian intent. It's like collecting string or foil (or CP Reputation points).
Once you do it for some useful purpose it loses the romance. The adventure. That "come see my silica gel capsule collection, my dear. Mwah ha ah.
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Quote: It has no utilitarian intent.
Quote: Once you do it for some useful purpose it loses the romance.
You Freak.
I can dig it though.
Completely.
Hide it somewhere else.
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Photos, or it doesn't exist. 
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I am with you, brother. I too collect something no one else seems to. In my case, it's empty prescription bottles. Mrs. Wife and I have reached the age where maintaining our ideal body chemistry requires a handful of pills in the morning and a handful at night. Most of these medications are provided in amber-colored plastic bottles with easily-removed labels.
These bottles are in a range of useful sizes. The large size is great for reading glasses. I use a lot of the medium size bottles to store USB cables and adapters of various sorts, which frees me from untangling cords. The smallest bottles are great for easily lost items like memory cards, microSD cards, and so on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: easily lost items like memory
I was going to comment on that, but I've forgotten what I was going to say
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Alas - I have to mess up your no-one-else wants a bit. I, too, collect them in small amounts. Anywhere from putting in a few of each pill for a weekend trip to small items like small parts from old pairs of glass and those springy things that hold watchbands on watches.
But empty bottles are always a treasure ! I just finished cleaning out a spout and squirty top from a bottle of Sriracha sauce after it served me well with its original content. Someday, I'm sure I'll have something to put in it. Really.
One thing - from the description of the things you can put in your empty medicine bottles I will take literally your description of "handfuls". Sometimes vitamins come in jars like that but meds? Oh my!
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What a dry hobby! Still, standard female procedure in such cases is to let the topic rest for a while and then the unwanted item will suffer an unfortunate accident while cleaning. You will see. That's one of the benefits of not having one of them around. I can keep what I want and even get to destroy it myself.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: That's one of the benefits of not having one of them around
I'm sure there are many who one wouldn't keep around unnecessarily.
Mine - we tolerate one another's "nuances" and, so far as I can see, the benefits of the last 45+ years have, and still, outweigh any downside. By so much.
Sorry for your loss.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Mine - we tolerate one another's "nuances" and, so far as I can see, the benefits of the last 45+ years have, and still, outweigh any downside. By so much.
RTFM and no amount of mind bleach will be enough to forget that. Without reading the manual, your only chances are rose colored glasses or a slim chance that she somehow manages not to go overboard. 45+ years sound like the latter case, but I'm afraid that model is almost out of production now. I know my luck and don't intend to gamble. It's not so bad. I just trade one thing that seems only bearable with lots of self deception or lots of alcohol against the freedom to do practically everything else.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If it was a nitroglycerine collection I could understand her concern. As is: it's her business how, exactly?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Is a musician with problems a trebled man?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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He coda be. Such staff is not unheard of - I'm sure there's a tune of stories about them; the newspapers are riff with such accounts of dis-cord in their personal relations.
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And on that note, we take a measure of rest.
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What did you say? I tuned out for a sec.
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Or just tired of all the cymbalism
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What would you bass this on?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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They should have cleft you in bars for that pun!
(Just a measure for measure...)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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On a scale of one to ten ? one
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Only if it's not all about the bass.
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