I have two aluminum balls. They save me money.

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Instead of buying dryer sheets I put these in the dryer with my clothes. Ordinary foil, crumpled up, about the size of a walnut, slightly smaller than a golfball.

I do a lot of bedding for my dogs, and the static electricity can get to be annoying.

But a ball of foil or two - I hear some people have larger ones, but I am a little leery of putting too much weight in one that might
scratch the coating on the dryer. Besides, size isn't always the most important thing, I don't think. It's how you use them.

http://lifehacker.com/5533418/use-aluminum-foil-to-keep-clothes-static-free

The article is a two-fer, btw. It has a link to an article about saving money on detergent, suggests we could get by with as little as an eighth of what some are using now.