Aluminum Foil in the Laundry

We live in a very dry high desert climate and I have discovered if I wad up a ball of aluminum foil and throw it in with my laundry it helps with static.  I have used the same ball for a very long time now and really like the results. The ball is getting smaller and I am going to just add some more to the outside of it.  Why and how did I come up with this? (you might ask)  I ran out of the Bounce sheets I usually use and needed to dry a load of my favorite dress slacks to wear so was desperate for a solution.  Like I always do, I went on the internet and read through a bunch of suggestions and liked this one the best.  We always have aluminum foil around.

All of us true "laundry queens" know if you dry one or two articles by themselves they don't tumble properly and come out very wrinkled.  This little aluminum foil ball seems to help with that.  I really do not like to iron - does anyone?  I make every effort to wash and dry all our clothes so they will not need ironing.  My mother irons everything - placemats, napkins and ALL her clothes.  She irons better than any dry cleaners I have ever used.  I used to iron quite a bit.  But I have 3 gorgeous daughter-in-laws who do not iron their clothes, are very stylish and always look great!  Obviously this is a strange comparison for me to make but they do show up in wrinkled white pants and some tight little slightly wrinkled chartreuse shirt on occasion and I only notice because I know they don't iron.  Now I know no amount of ironing is going to make me look younger or better and I don't like it or really care about wrinkles so why do it?   I care just enough to take some extra pains with my laundry process.   I am sure a psychiatrist would attribute this to my mother's past and current care of her own clothes.   I definitely don't want my clothes clinging to me (maybe I would if I were younger) so now I use the aluminum foil with the Bounce sheets almost every time. 
 Try this little aluminum foil trick out for yourself and don't forget to check on the internet for any weird need/want/advice you might have.  Might take a little searching and filtering on your part but it is less time-consuming than the old trial and error we resorted to before the internet.