It doesn’t take more than 2 to 4 uses before you start seeing your trusty steel wool gathering some unwanted rust. You can actually make the lifespan of steel wool last much longer and dramatically decrease the amount of rust that will build on it using a bit of our favorite material, aluminum foil.
Take some aluminum foil and wrap it around the steel wool. Then just put the aluminum ball containing the steel wool into the freezer and take it out the next time you need to use it. This will prevent rust from accumulating and allow you to use your steel wool over much longer periods of time.
Moving Furniture With Aluminum
The biggest culprits in the difficulty of moving furniture around are gravity and friction. There's nothing you can do about the former, but the latter can be largely solved using aluminum foil. Someone recently discovered that you can actually put a sheet of aluminum paper under each of your furniture piece’s legs (just like in the picture).
This will cause the furniture to lose much of the friction it has with the ground, making it much easier to move around the floor. Unfortunately, aluminum foil can’t help you carry furniture down the stairs unless you’re willing to use it as a slide, so you’re on your own when it comes to that.
Make Your Own Fish Bait From Aluminum
If you're sick of hanging worms and pieces of bread on the tip of your hook, or you just find that these baits don't quite do the job, a cheap and possible alternative you can use is actually aluminum foil. No joke — studies have shown that fish are attracted to shiny objects. One might even refer to this type of bait as "fish diggers".
What you do is put a piece of scrunched-up aluminum foil at the end of your fishing line, and the fish are automatically attracted to your bait due to the way that it sparkles and shines. We're not saying that fish are greedy money-grubbing creatures, just that they really like to check out and taste things that are shiny
Make Chrome Shine Again
Chrome is a type of metal that collects rust over time, causing it to look dirty and unpolished. It doesn't matter how many times you go over it with a wipe though, because rust isn't something that can just be cleaned off. This doesn't mean that you need to get rid of it or replace it all, Once again, plain old aluminum foil will do the trick.
Simply take a piece of aluminum foil and scrape it gently over your rusty chrome surface, and you've got yourself a brand new metal that looks like it was just recently purchased. It's easy, fun, cheap, and rewarding.
Having Fun With Aluminum
There are many creative uses for aluminum foil, but not all of them have to be practical like keeping your electronics safe or growing your plants better. You can also have fun with aluminum due to its many versatile features.
One easy and fun use for aluminum is to wrap it in various shapes and use it for some improvised artistic modeling. Another fun use is to cut it up into various shapes or even cover an entire room with it and create a light show. The options are endless and the fun is guaranteed!