Al Carrell: I know what you’re thinking... 'Aluminum foil is for the kitchen.' Let me tell you that there are many handy uses for it. As a matter of fact, it may help to 'foil' some of the problems that you run into when you’re doing some of your fix-it jobs.

For example, if you’re going to be painting, if you have to stop in the middle of your paintjob, instead of having to clean your brush or roller, wrap it up in aluminum foil, put it in the refrigerator. When you come back, it’ll be ready to go.

And you know how when you get through painting and you’ve got the painttray all gunked up and you have to clean it, if you’ll make a foil liner for the tray, when you get through, you just wrap that up, throw it away, and you’ve got a clean tray underneath there.

If you ever lose a cap on a bottle, you can just take aluminum foil and put it around the bottle top and form an air-tight cap.

If you’re into hunting or fishing or outdoor activities, you know that sometimes you need to have a candle and some matches. Well, if you’ll wrap the candle and matches in aluminum foil, it’ll be air-tight and water-tight.

Now, if you’re going to be storing something metal, like a tool or something like that, you can put it in foil, but first you may want to put a little lubricant or some sort of a protective coating in there, and then wrap it up. It’s going to be sealed away. There’s no air that can get to it, and when you open it up, it’s going to be shiny, new, and not rusty.

And, incidentally, you probably don’t know this, and that is that the 11^th wedding anniversary is the aluminum anniversary. And if you want to send somebody a really good gift, send them a box of aluminum foil. Let them know you cared to send the very best.