Seal a Plastic Bag

Remember the last time you got anxious about your grocery items and ended up buying more than you needed? Those extras were not a big deal, at least until an opened chip bag fell and spilled all the chips on the floor. There are ways to reseal plastic packages, and you don’t need any particular machine for it. A strip of aluminum foil and a hot iron does the job.

Random aluminum fact: The top of the Washington Monument is topped off with an 8.9-inch aluminum pyramid. The aluminum cap served as the apex of the lightning rod, though it had to be supported with copper rods when it became clear that the cap itself wouldn’t prevent damage.