<story><title>How I hang Christmas lights without a ladder</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/fVySUB2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Most places in the world with metal flashing, metal gutters, or other metal on an exterior will have aluminum.&lt;p&gt;It’s old houses that might have steel.&lt;p&gt;If you have a new house, I guarantee this won’t work. If you have an old house it’s worth checking, though.</text></item><item><author>brudgers</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Magnet attaches to the roof edge flashing which is metal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the US, there is a substantial probability the flashing is non-magnetic aluminum.&lt;p&gt;So test first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&amp;gt; Most places in the world with metal flashing, metal gutters, or other metal on an exterior will have aluminum.&lt;p&gt;For gutters that magnets won&amp;#x27;t stick to it might work to use pairs of magnets.&lt;p&gt;1. Drop a strong magnet into the gutter.&lt;p&gt;2. Place another strong magnet on the bottom of the gutter under the place you dropped the aforementioned magnet.&lt;p&gt;3. Attach a ferromagnetic metal clip to the thing you want to suspend and use the magnet from #2 to hold the clip.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I hang Christmas lights without a ladder</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/fVySUB2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Most places in the world with metal flashing, metal gutters, or other metal on an exterior will have aluminum.&lt;p&gt;It’s old houses that might have steel.&lt;p&gt;If you have a new house, I guarantee this won’t work. If you have an old house it’s worth checking, though.</text></item><item><author>brudgers</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Magnet attaches to the roof edge flashing which is metal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the US, there is a substantial probability the flashing is non-magnetic aluminum.&lt;p&gt;So test first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markdown</author><text>I wonder which places still use any metal at all. I haven&amp;#x27;t seen those in decades. It&amp;#x27;s all plastic here.</text></comment>