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Save Your Steel Wool

While helpful, steel wool has a tendency to rust quite quickly after your first use. However, you can aluminum foil to help preserve it. All you need to do is wrap the steel wool up in some foil and then throw it in the freezer. The next time you pull it out it'll be good as new and you won't go through that pack of steel wool nearly as fast.

The freezer essentially freezes any remaining moisture and the foil works to deoxidize any rust that might form. If any rust does manage to somehow form, you can just wipe it away with the foil.