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Tip 119: The Shoelace Solution
Sunday, October 31, 1999
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PROBLEM: Your swimsuit straps won't stay up, your sunhat blows off
and, later, your wet bathing suit won't stay put on the balcony railing.
SOLUTION: One word: shoelaces, says tipster Janet Alward of Silver
Spring. She took a six-pack along on a recent Cancun vacation and used
them, in addition to the above emergencies, to secure an underwater
camera to her wrist while snorkeling; as a makeshift lanyard for sunglasses; and to close the plastic bag containing her wet suit on the trip home.
BONUS: "If a shoelace on my sneaker had broken, I'd have been all set."
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