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Show Makes r Cents By " ' ! VI JUDGE BLAKE 'SCS' 1 DearVi: We cut the cost of draping our windows by buying unlined drapes and making removable linings for them out of sheets. It was fairly j easy to do. Make the lining exactly i like the drapes pinch pleats and ! all but four inches shorter. Put separate hooks in the lining pleats and insert them in the same little tabs that hold the drapes. No extra rod is needed. The lining can be removed re-moved and laundered separately, another an-other economy since it costs much less to have unlined drapes dry cleaned. Also, we find that the drapes, themselves, don't need to be cleaned as often if you put them in the dryer for a few minutes to remove re-move the dust each time you launder laun-der the linings. We hope this idea will help other young couples, who, like us, are just getting started. Meg and Glen This reminds me of another most worthwhile economy: When a shower curtain needs to be replaced leave the old one inside to catch the splashes. The new one will stay new much longer. DearVi: Here's one more use for plastic berry baskets: if you pack lunches in a brown bag instead of in a lunch pail, put one in the bottom of the bag to keep sandwiches and goodies i from getting crushed. ! Letha Andersen Many more brown bags will be going to school and work now that the days are warm and balmy. More work for moms? Not if each brown-bagger brown-bagger assembles his own lunch sandwiches, cookies, cake prepared, pre-pared, wrapped and frozen in advance ad-vance an apple or orange, carrot and celery sticks all ready to go. (They'll stay crisp and fresh overnight if refrigerated in a covered jar with an inch or two of water in the bottom.) Frozen fruit juice will help keep the lunch safely cool and will be thawed by lunch time. (Save the plastic soft-drink bottles, the kind with screw-on lids for this.) Once children get used to fruit juice, they will stop craving health- damaging carbonated drinks and sweet punch. If you choose to make sandwiches sand-wiches in the morning instead of freezing them ahead of time, try cucumbers or bean or alfalfa sprouts to add crunch-appeal without making mak-ing the bread soggy. If you use lettuce, let-tuce, wrap it separately in foil to be added to the sandwich just before it's eaten. Children who are allowed to choose and assemble their own lunches will usually eat everything they take, but to be sure that they do, insist that they bring back what they don't eat so that you can help them decide more wisely what to take next time. Thought for the day: Nostalgia makes us forget the unpleasant aspects as-pects of the good old days. Readers: My booklet "Young Entrepreneur" explains 33 ways boys and girls can earn money in their spare time. Price is $2.49. When ordering by mail please add $1 for postage and handling. The address is 328 South 300 East, St. George, Ut 84770. |