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Show It Makes Cents... By Vi Blake DearVi: While polishing silverware, sil-verware, I tried using the silver polish on some stainless steel flatware. It brought back the shine and they look new again. Then I polished a stainless steel bowl I found at a garage sale. It was an interesting shape but quite dingy. The polish brought out a beautiful patina. Another time, I bought a blender that had a chip in the top of the Pyrex container. I used a soft fingernail file to smooth the sharp edge. It is now useful without worry of getting cut on the chipped edge of the glass. Lorene Plumb, Santa Clara, Utah Dear Vi: I've been told that you should not stuff a turkey the night before roasting it, but is it o.k. to make the stuffing in advance? Irene Sylvester It's perfectly safe to make the dressing in advance, Irene, but be sure to refrigerate it. The problem with stuffing a turkey in advance is that the cavity provides pro-vides a perfect environment for the growth of bacteria. What happens to prize-winning pumpkins weighing hundreds hun-dreds of pounds? Are they left in the field to rot? Chopped open for livestock to eat? I s the flesh edible or stringy and dry?. If edible, how many pies one of those giants would make. But how would you manage to get it cooked? Just curious. I hate to see smashed jack-o-lanterns littering streets and sidewalks the day after Halloween. Seems like such a waste. Of course, they aren't good for much if your family doesn't like pumpkin steamed and served as a vegetable, or you don't like to make pumpkin pie, or use it in vegetable soup, or in cookies, nut bread, rolls, or cake. Or unless you know someone who would feed them to their pigs or cattle. Or they are buried in a garden plot, Or added to a compost pit to enrich the soil. Some extraordinary ways to use ordinary things: Denture Brush: Makes a sturdy tool for scrubbing small areas such as window and door tracks. Coffee Filters: Being virtually virtu-ally lint less, they are great for polishing mirrors, chrome, and glass. Seam Ripper: Wonderful for cutting thread, hair, string, and all that twisted stuff from around the vacuum brush. And for opening tough plastic packaging, Toilet Bowl Brush. Use to clean underneath heavy pieces of furniture, on and under couch-or couch-or chair cushions, cold air vents, exhaust fan grates, under piano pedals, to remove pet hair, stairway stair-way carpets (especially the edges) and much more. Wrist sweat band: Wear when washing walls, windows, shower stalls, cupboards, or any place where water would otherwise other-wise run down your arm. Nylon net dish scrubber: If clothes come out of the washer covered with lint, put one the dryer. It will gently brush off the lint. Art gum eraser: For removing remov-ing black heel marks. Fine steel wool: Dampen with solvent and gently rub white vacuum scuffs off furniture furni-ture legs. Plastic can cover: Cut one edge off straight for a windshield wind-shield scraper. It will curve to fit the windshield and take off a wide swatch of frost at each swipe. Hot water bottle The best kneeling pad ever. Fill with old nylons. Old nylons: Hold six or more old nylon stockings by the toes so they will be fairly even. Tie a knot in the center of the lot. Cut off feet and tops so that all will be the same length. Makes a nifty scouring rag for washing tub, scouring fixtures, washing ! dishes, cleaning sink, etc. " THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ; Almost everything has a use. We just have to be resourceful enough to find it.- ; Readers: This is your feature. fea-ture. Share your good ideas by sending them to IT MAKES , CENTS, 328 So. 300 E. 5, St. George, Utah or by e-mail: viblakeinfowest.com. If used here I'll send you $2.00 or one of my booklets. Please state your choice. For back issues of it makes cents, log into my web page: www.infowest.comcents. |