Water bottles are huge space takers, and if you have a lot of them you should avoid keeping them in your cabinets at all cost—after all, you have more important things to put in there. Instead, stack your water bottles in this gadget, and keep it by the door so you don't forget to take one with you when you leave.

Unless you have terrible allergies or asthma, you probably don't need an outrageously expensive air purifier. There are a lot of things you can do before you blow a lot of money on something you only need for a few months out of the year: You can upgrade to a better vacuum cleaner. It doesn't cost much to change the air filters in your HVAC system, or even just close your windows and routinely wash your sheets.

It's not uncommon to look in a fridge and see a few eggs hanging out in the door. You need to fill the egg rack, right? Wrong said Kerkenbush. When you store eggs in the door, you expose them to sudden temperature changes each time the door opens and closes, which may cause them to go bad faster.

If you’ve been circling the 3D printer community for a while, you might have already heard about this trick. But with the arrival of a curiously-culinary-looking contraption called PrintDry, we can’t let the elephant in the room keep silent for much longer. Rather than risk our own pennies and leave ourselves stranded with a device that only makes the jerky on the box cover, [SafetlyGlassesRequired] and [Joe Mike Terranella] kindly prove our suspicions for us once and for all: a food dehydrator works perfectly for drying all that filament that we left out in the rain!

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If the house has a slab foundation, keep the garage door closed. Some water pipes are located under concrete floors in the garage.

Bulk Cooking All-starsThe Best Slow Cookers for Every Personality and SituationEven if you don’t own a slow cooker, you can still cook up big batches of food before they go bad. As many of you know, spinach is the poster child for bulk-cooking—dump a mountain of spinach into a sautée pan, season, heat, and stir, and suddenly you have a palm-sized amount of cooked greens ready to eat or store. While kale does not shrink down like spinach, you can make a large amount of it more palatable by making it into chips; get our Baked Kale Chips recipe, and eat them as snacks, or sprinkle over ramen and rice dishes for additional texture and flavor. Too much basil? Make pesto! And you can always go with that age-old method of cooking twice as much of any recipe to start, and saving the leftovers.

Recycled materials will generally produce excellent results and will save you quite a bit of expense and go even easier on the planet. Minor design modifications may be necessary to adjust dimensions to fit the materials available.

If you are preparing to shelter in place during an emergency situation, here’s everything you should have stocked inside your home. Or you can upgrade to a luxury doomsday bunker.

Whether you’re keeping your prepped meals in the fridge or the freezer for longer-term storage, experts recommend eco-friendly glass containers. “I prefer glass containers with locking lids because glass is easy to clean, reheat, and use to store produce and most foods without creating smells,” says Ashlee Piper, sustainability journalist and author of Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet. She pointed us toward the Glasslock containers, which have airtight lids.

Consequently, protecting these products from moisture ingress is one of the key factors a primary packaging must achieve. How can this be done? The answer is adsorption, a physical procedure where specific molecules bind to the surface of an appropriate material and accumulate there. Depending on both application area and packaging requirements, different desiccants such as silica gel or molecular sieve can be used to protect the contents from moisture vapor contained in the air. These desiccants are hygroscopic. They attract moisture, thus keeping it away from the packaged contents.

Additionally the fact that no loud and turbulent compressor is required is an invaluable advantage for these applications. The user can choose cold white light with a temperature of 6,500 Kelvin alternatively warm white light (2,700 Kelvin) or a combination of cold white and warm white light, dimmable in steps of 1%.