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Susie Madrak received an e-mail which read in part:

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 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 Wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something up.

There were a lot of comments to that post, most saying "Wow, I never noticed that before."

Me neither. I went and looked at my boxes of foil, plastic wrap and wax paper. Two of the three have the tabs (generic waxed paper does not; don't ask me why). I had an extra five minutes Saturday after reading about this, so I went to the Reynolds website, clicked on the "contact us" link and asked how long the tabs had been a feature of their foil boxes. I got a reply in my e-mail this morning.

Thank you for your inquiry regarding Reynolds Wrap© Aluminum Foil.

In 1996, end locks were added to the cartons to hold the rolls in place. Press in the perforated tabs on each end of the carton before your first use.

Twelve years those have been there and I didn't know it. How often have I yanked on the end of the foil and had the whole thing come out of the box in all that time? More times than I can remember.

And that's this week's helpful household hint. TTFN.

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