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Show it K38T Makes KTj Cents ELfl By PSgfli VI JUDGE BLAKE L Dear Vi: My old knee-high rubber boots were split just above the ankle so that they leaked. Instead of discarding them, as I at first intended, I cut off the upper part. This created a pair of rubber mini boots, which I can step into when working in the garden or in wet weather. Another recycle idea I've found useful is a needle holder from an empty lipstick holder. Clean out the lipstick, stop the hole in the bottom with a bit of cotton or foam, put you needles in it, eyes, up. When you want a needle, just turn up the holder as you would lipstick and you can see the needles and choose the size you want, then you can turn the holder down and put on the cap. Opal Beamont Have you tried refilling an empty lipstick case with lipstick from other near empty tubes, Opal. When you get through, harden it in the refrigerate and you have a new tube of lipstick. Or you can dig out the lipstick way down in the tube and put it into an empty lip-salve or similar small container and use it that way. Dear Vi: I buy as many bone-in bone-in chuck steaks as I can when they are on sale. At home, I cut out the eyes in these and store them in the freezer for a special company or holiday dinner. The remaining portions of the steaks are also packaged together for stews, braised beef, boiled beef, or to use the meat in soup or ta-cos. ta-cos. Sandra Batteson Dear Vi: Clean, dry empty plastic dishwashing detergent bottles with squirt tops make ideal storage containers for oil for small engines such as chain saws. The oil can be squeezed directly into the oil tank without using a funnel. I keep an old oven mitt near the freezer to wear when removing remov-ing a frozen package of food. This is especially helpful when you need to remove everything in order to defrost the freezer. When we move, as we often do since my husband is in the service, instead of using newspapers, newspa-pers, I pack old rags around dishes and breakable items so that I'll have plenty of cleaning cloths to use when settling into our new abode. Mrs. D. .M. J. Dear Vi: I dyed some clothes by boiling them in an aluminum kettle. The dye stained the kettle and I can't scrub it off. What would you suggest? Brenda M. Try boiling half vinegar and half water in your kettle, Brenda. This is an old remedy for removing remov-ing food stains from aluminum. Or boil a solution of a teaspoon of cream of tarter per quart of water in the pot. If neither method works, you may have to buy some color remover (available where you bought the dye) and boil it in the pot. Good luck. Dear Vi: We grow our own garlic but we have trouble storing it. We thought we could just hang it and let it dry but it turns soft and spoils. Can you help? Sam First, Sam, be sure the garlic is fully mature before harvesting it.. This means the tops must be allowed to die down naturally. The harvested garlic must then be allowed to fully dry before it is stored. Leave the tops on and spread it out on sheets of newspaper newspa-per outdoors in a dry sunny location loca-tion for several days, but take the bulbs in at night so that they don't absorb moisture from the dew. When thoroughly dry, remove all but about an inch of the tops. Now you are ready to store your garlic. Don't wrap it or put it in plastic bags. Rather spread it loosely in ventilated boxes or cartons. Or you can leave the tops on and braid them together for hanging in the open air or in a cool, dry basement. Never store garlic where there is excessive moisture or it will soften and spoil. Overly dry conditions, on the other hand, will cause it to dry out. Dry is better than damp, however. Dear Vi: Turn dishwashing into a beauty treatment for your hands by using a rich hand cream on them before putting on your rubber gloves. Also, line a bowl or small pan with a plastic produce pro-duce bag when cleaning fruit or vegetables and then the bag can be fastened and tossed into the garbage pail without making a soggy mess. Iris Cooper Better, still, Iris, bury vegetable vegeta-ble or fruit trimmings (no meat) in a bare spot in your garden. They will soon become humus, which can be used to enrich and improve the soil. We do this instead in-stead of making room in our small garden area for a compost pit. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm not a speechmaker," let it go at that instead of making a demonstration? dem-onstration? Kim Hubbarad READERS: Thank you for sharing your good ideas. Send yours, or requests to help, to IT MAKES CENTS, 328 So,300 E. 5, St. George, Utah 84770. If used here I'll send you $2. Or a copy of "Kitchen Tricks." Please state your choice. |