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Test-Drive Your Grocery Cart
Dear Heloise: Here's a way to cut down on your chances of getting stuck with WOBBLE-WHEELED GROCERY CARTS. Pick up a cart in the parking lot and "test-drive" it to the store entrance. If it rides straight and true, keep it. If it wobbles or veers off in one direction, exchange it for one at the door, and at least you've saved the courtesy clerks one cart pickup in the lot. -- Cathy L. from California
Good advice! Not only are you making your trip easier, you are doing a good deed by taking a cart in. -- Heloise
FURNACE FILTER
Dear Heloise: When replacing your furnace filter, use a permanent marker and, on the outside border of the new filter (the edge that shows after the filter has been installed), write the date the filter was installed. This will enable you to determine when it should be replaced. -- Bill in Nebraska
SHEER DELIGHT
Dear Heloise: I used a method you mentioned for keeping sheer curtains in "like new" condition. If I recall, it involved Epsom salts. Can you tell me what your recommendation was? Thank you! -- Carol, via e-mail
Your memory is not playing tricks on you, Carol - the answer is indeed Epsom salts. Here's what you do to make sheer curtains crisp again:
1. Mix 1 cup of Epsom salts in a sink filled with cool water (until salts are completely dissolved).
2. Put the curtains in the sink and completely saturate them in the solution.
3. Dip curtains in and out. DO NOT wring or twist!
4. Hang over a bathtub or outside to drip-dry.
