Cut 'em open and pour them in a jar with a tight seal. When you need a pack, microwave hell out of some and rubber band them into a piece of coffee filter.
The colored beads indicate how water saturated they are. When they're nuked and dried out, they change color. YMMV as some manufacturers use different colors or none at all. Whatever. Nuke 'em and reuse.
It's an exciting hobby.
Thank you for the information, it is much appreciated and I will record it for further reference.
I do follow wildcrafting guidelines generally, never take more than a third of a stand if it's at all threatened or slow growing, and leave some of the healthiest looking ones.
But that's not the case with these mushrooms. First of all, I live in nowhere, national and state forest everywhere, and a handful of hicks and others that live there. The woods is vast, beyond vast, there are almost no people that go off trail as I do, let alone off their atv's. Also, by the time mushrooms are harvestible size, they dropped most of their spores. You can also carry them in a mesh bag to let more come out.
But there is no shortage of spores, I can assure you.