Aluminum Foil Handy Household Hints

Aluminum foil

thepiggs 15 years ago

Got this from a friend. This info is correct. I checked my own and had another DUH moment!

Aluminum foil boxes

I've been using aluminum foil for more years than I care to remember.
Great stuff, but sometimes it can be a pain. You know, like when you are
in the middle of doing something and you try to pull some foil out and
the roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the
box and start over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.

Well, I would like to share this with you. Yesterday I went to throw out
an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it and looked at
the end of the box. And written on the end it said, "Press here to lock
end". Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in
place. How long has this little locking tab been there? I then looked at
a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too. I then looked at a
box of Saran wrap and it had one too! I can't count the number of times
the Saran warp roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something
up.

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pleclare 15 years ago said:

Just found this out a week or 2 from pat2me. All the years fighting with the rolls!

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rml 15 years ago said:

Awesome! I didn't know that.
Thanks, TP!

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divaliscious 15 years ago said:

thats funny too, since maybe three weeks ago or less I too found those 'special ends' maybe its something new? Since we are all discovering it only all of the sudden after years of struggling with those boxes...just a thought :-P

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tnacndn 15 years ago said:

I had just received an email about it and had found the words on the end of a box a few days ago too. LOL

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deedeec 15 years ago said:

OMG! I'm embarrassed to say I've never noticed that... I just checked my plastic wrap (a store brand) and my Reynolds wrap and pressed in the tabs. Thanks for the FYI. Please tell me this is a new improvement to the box design and I haven't been clueless for over 20 years.... Does being a "natural" blonde count in my favor?

Yes, I'm red right now... my husband jokes that it's "artificial intelligence"... LOL

Dee

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deedeec 15 years ago said:

OKAY... now answer this. Why doesn't Reynolds put those little doo-hickies on their wax paper boxes? I just checked that too and mine doesn't have them. Anyway, I took a knife and cut a little V shaped notch in the ends and it works just the same.

Dee

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divaliscious 15 years ago said:

Dee, now you are sounding like you are a real brunette (creating your own v shaped notches) you got me laughing but good at your hubby's so called AI comment...girl, You are smart, no matter the color of your hair!

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divaliscious 15 years ago said:

maybe I should send this to Oprah as my Aha! moment....

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deedeec 15 years ago said:

Diva, thanx. I'm a regular McGuiver! LOL I just like to poke fun at myself when I do have Blonde Moments.

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fab44me 15 years ago said:

Oh man!!!
I just wanna beat myself over the head having never noticed this before!!!

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fab44me 15 years ago said:

I noticed my wax paper doesn't have this handy feature, though.......Hmm, maybe we oughta all email CUT RITE. lol

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