OCR Text |
Show iiiu.ii v o. i mi e ,-i I'v t1 n 'r r;iuH riv o H101 'pl L-" : it i j ri l1:. it makes cents I" At. A UUi" ilsh : m By Vi Judge Barbara Curry's book, "Okay, 111 Do It Myself" is chock full of fix-up ideas. Here are a few to emphasize the worn-out jokes about women fixing things with hairpins: One day Barbara decided to put up a kitchen kit-chen peg-board panel. She had everything she needed except "spacers," the small tubes held in place by the installing screws to hold the board far enough away from the wall to accommodate the various hooks and hangers. "A little thinking, digging, and six small porcelain knobs later and we were in business," Barbara writes. "The knobs substituted nicely." Another time, she sawed off portions of some old "high heels" to make wood plugs to put up a hanging wall lamp. The possibilities are endless, she says, and I agree. It just takes a drawer full of useful "packraf'items, things you can find around almost any house, and some creative thought. Consider, for example, bathroom supplies: Bandage tape covers the teeth of pliers or wrenches to keep them from scratching visible chrome nuts you're installing. Shoe polish stains wood admirably and covers scratches and mars on furniture. Black polish makes raw pine look like fine Jacobean oak. Of course, for large areas it's cheaper to buy regular wood stain, but for small projects, shoe polish is nice to know about. Toothpaste is the best for small scratches on clear plastic. It also polishes silver or copper. One prong of flat sided tweezers serves nicely as a small jeweler-type jeweler-type screwdriver for tightening eyeglass frames, replacing a stylus on a recod player, or whatever. Many a window or drawer would slide better if a bar of soap were run along the tracks. An old shower curtain or liner makes a great paint cloth or mud-print mud-print catcher for rainy days. ' So much for the bathroom. Newspapers are invaluable in-valuable for cushioning breakables when packing to move, but did you know that several layers make a ;good substitute for a rug pad and good insulation to keep out the cold. Matches aren't just for burning. Wooden ones are unbeatable as "fillers' for worn-out screw holes. . Matchbooks are good emergency levelers wherever a :"shim" or wedge is called for. "If you've ever stopped a table from rocking, you get the picture," Barbara says. Steel wool, with or without commercial soap, does more than just clean and polish. Stuffed into a hole in the wall, it will securely hold a screw." Some of Barbara's ideas we've already published in IT MAKES CENTS, but it's fun to read them in somebody's else's book. The secret is, save all tack, screws, pieces of wire and countless other odds and ends that might come in handy some day. Keep them in some special place. (We call ours the junk drawer.) Junk drawers aren't the tidiest places, but they surely come in handy when something needs fixing. Dear Vi: When you have to live alone you quickly learn how handy it was to have someone around-like when you need ointment applied to aching shoulders. Lacking people, I resorted to a long, dull table knife. This works well. To apply liquid, fasten a small piece of cotton or sponge to some long-handled article. Minnie Douglas And there's always the door frame for scratching backs. Love your spunk, Minnie. When scrubbing a pot or skillet, rest it on a sponge to prevent blackening or marring the sink or counter top. Birth order has lasting effects Birth orderit's a factor over which we have no control. Yet, some researcher have said that birth order can help shape children's personalities, behavior-even behavior-even their lives. Birth order, or the order in which children are born, can affect such things as intelligence, popularity, diplomacy and jealousy. Most of the research of birth order has focused on the firstborn first-born child. American Baby magazine reported in September 1979 that over 50 percent of U.S. presidents, and 21, of the first 23 astronauts launched into space have been first-born children. First-borns are represented more than other children in colleges and in Who's Who. One reason first-borns are strong achievers may be that parents give them more time and attention than children born later. Researchers have noted that mothers talk more to their first-born babies than others and spend more time with them in other activities. Brian Sutton-Smith and B.G. Rosenberg, in their book The Sibling, report that parents put more pressure on first-borns for achievement- even after other children are born. As a result, firstborns first-borns tend to be high achievers, but also tend to suffer from a great deal of anxiety. "First-born children tend to be more conscientious, con-scientious, achieve higher scholastically, and go to school longer than later boms," Dr. Lucille Forere wrote in The Birth Order Factor. "But the first -born may also be jealous and angrier. He may be tense and driven because of parents who no longer provide, exclusive attention," at-tention," she continued. While the first-born may be the over-achiever, over-achiever, the youngest is usually friendlier and more popular than older brothers and sisters. Middle children usually are well-adjusted and friendlier than first-born children. They may be good mediators because they have had to settle disputes between the older and younger siblings. The only child is a special sp-ecial case found by some researchers to have higher self-esteem than other children. They often are achievement-minded, but also are more dependent than firstborns first-borns or later children. Normally, they do not suffer from jealousy and often are perfectionists. Birth-order alone will not determine a child's success or failure, and some researchers aro skeptic as to its importance. im-portance. The ways in which parents deal with thier children and the values they teach them will have a great impact on a child's future, regardless of birth order. Little Spencer Brady Evans, son of Kent and Annette Evans of Mapleton, celebrated his first birthday on December 2. Vern and Clara Evans of Sandy and Verl and Norma Brady of Billings, Montana, are grandparents. r wan S a CHARMIN BATH TISSUE 4 ROLL PACK REGULAR PRICE $1.31 SALE cno PRICE K2J U Scrub StreJ BRAWNY PAPER TOWELS 94 2-PLY TOWELS REGULAR PRICE 89' SALE PRICE G PAMPER'S DISPOSABLE DIAPERS EXTRA ABSORBENT DAYTIME 24'S REGULAR PRICE $3.19 'sale $C)G9 PRICE a Oiaparene r rv -V Kfi- DIAPARENE BABY WASH CLOTHS 70 COUNT REGULAR PRICE $1.49 SALE PRICE HANKSCRAFT COOL VAPOR HUMIDIFIER 1.6 GALLON CAPACITY --REGULAR PRICE $17.98 HAnKSCRAFT SALE Model 240 pfl ( Vase)inA 1 I iMtlMMUM I 1 VASELINE INTENSIVE CARE BABY LOTION 16 OUNCE REGUALAR PRICE $1.59 SALE PRICE FamS Vaseline INtfMIV) CAM VASELINE INTENSIVE CARE BABY POWDER 24 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $1.59 SALE 5 "I PRICE U j Vaseline rstiswvi I am VASELINE INTENSIVE CARE BABY SHAMPOO 16 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $1.59 SALE $ 00 PRICE U Vaseline ' I , Baby Oil! VASELINE INTENSIVE CARE BABY OIL 16 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $1.59 SALE PRICE On 09 REMINGTON 22 SHELLS HIGH VELOCITY 22 LONG RIFLE REGULAR PRICE $2.79 100 SHELLS SALE PRICE fPfl 111' SUPERIOR ELECTRIC WARM AIR CIRCULATOR ON-OFF SWITCH THERMOSTAT REGULAR PRICE $34.98 PRICE $v99 J QUAKER STATE QUAKER STATE 10W - 40 DELUXE MOTOR OIL 1 QUART REG. $1.09 SALE PRICE IIS SALE PRICE & THf , tNITRATlNO ntOTfCTO WINDSHIELD WASH AND ANTIFREEZE ONE GALLON JUG REGULAR PRICE $1.29 6 STP SON OF A GUN PENETRATING PROTECTOR 18 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $3.19 PRICE -J STP OIL TREATMENT 15 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $1.69 SALE PRICE STP GAS TREATMENT 8 12 OUNCE OUNCE REG. $1.09 REG. $1.39 SALE SALE PRICE PRICE Oil. j i TREATMENT 1 ADD TO Oil It 1 mm 0i- REESE'S PIECES NATURAL PEANUT FLAVOR IN A CANDY SHELL 16 OUNCE REGULAR $1.99 SALE PRICE SHASTA 2 LITRE SOFT DRINKS REGULAR PRICE $1.19 riir i n SALE PRICE FUEX BALSAM 73 m ST BALSAM i nom CI CV A BALSAM & PROTEIN SHAMPOO OR CONDITIONER 20 OUNCE BONUS SIZE REGULAR PRICE $.199 sale $ m 33 PRICE P REVLOJ FLEM NET ALL WEATHER HAIR SPRAY REGULAR PRICE $2.19 I SALE S lT V1 J PRICE ' Li- J ANTI-PERSPIRANT & DEODORANT 1.5 OZ. ROLL-ON REGULAR PRICE $1.39 SALE In If nllfi PRICE U J V SURE ANTI-PERSPIRANT & DEODORANT 4 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $1.69 SALE PRICE fell Xsj s GHMi(In)GPGI!ITO SIIIlIiQaGIKE) M 3 PERT SHAMPOO 15 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $2.59 SALE ri9 PRICE U SCOPE MOUTHWASH 18 OUNCE REGULAR PRICE $1.79 SALE $39 PRICE U GILLETTE ATRA RAZOR BLADES 10 CARTRIDGES REGULAR $3.39 SALE 1 |