Hints From Heloise

Dear Heloise: Here is another tip for recycling those packaging peanuts. Stuff them into an old pair of stockings or pantyhose, knot the ends and you have boot trees. - Deborah Causwell, Wolfe City, Texas

Dear Readers: Down to the last of the toothpaste in the tube? While on a trip recently this is what I faced and solved the problem with an old Heloise hint my mother used to do. Place the tube on the counter (being sure the cap is on) and use the handle of your toothbrush to squish the toothpaste from the bottom of the tube to the top.

You will be amazed at the amount left. Why throw away money? - Heloise

Dear Heloise: My husband cuts off the bottom of plastic jugs, keeps the cap on and bails out his boat with them. - Mrs. Richard Dapert, Walkerton, Ill.