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Show It Makes Cents Dear Vi: When there is snow on the ground, we use that instead of ice in our electric ice cream freezer. It's plentiful, costs nothing, and you don't have to crush it. Delilah Flemming, Idaho Falls, Id. I'm wondering if snow would also work in hand freezers or if it would melt too fast. Have any of you tried it? I understand that ice cream was "invented" by a cook, who frustrated because the pudding didn't set up, tossed it out in the snow, later retrieving and serving, frozen, to her delighted master. Dear Vi: We use the foam trays meat come in to package cakes, cookies and candies for gifts. We wrap the trays with foil and add a paper doily, then add the goodies and enclose all in plastic. A bow on top adds a final festive touch. We also use meat trays for drainage trays under house plants, and to collect scraps for the birds and our neighbor's cat, who comes to visit quite often. Helen Schmedley By Vi Judge Blake Dear Vi: To keep drafts from entering under a door, I make an "improved snake" as follows. Cut a piece of heavy fabric 2 feet wide and four inches longer than the width of the door. Fold lengthwise and stitch down the long side then across one end. Sew a line down the exact center of the strip, then fill each side about three-quarters full of corn and sew the open end shut. To use: lay the snake with one filled side on the floor and let the other side rest up against the door. We find this much more effective than the usual single-roll snake for keeping cold air from coming under the door. Ardith Frandsen, Rock Springs, Wy. Dear Vi: My handyman husband made the ncatcsl-ever rack for shoes and boots. It's simply an old wire shoe rack attached with screws to a large piece of plywood. It hangs on the garage wall next to the kitchen door ready to receive wet, muddy boots and shoes and keep them and their mess off the garage floor and out of the way. Another advantage is that the wet shoes and boots dry faster when they are hanging instead of setting on the floor. Anna Cartwright This reminds me to mention that my husband, who lived with ice and snow most of his life, always carried a short-handle shovel and a bag of sand in his vehicles in case he got stuck in slippery ice or mud. I suspect he used these to help other out of such predicaments oftcner than himself. A few asphalt roofing shingles kept in the truck can also provide the traction needed to drive out of ice, mud, or snow. Readers: Thanks for sharing your good ideas. Send yours to: "It Makes Cents," 328 South 300 East, St. George, Utah 84770. $2.00 or a 3-month subscription to my new The Best of It Makes Cents monthly newsletter if your contribution is used here. |