Hints From Heloise

Fri., July 12, 1996

King Features Syndicate

Dear Heloise: Instead of discarding your empty dish soap bottle, use it to water your small potted plants. It is quick and easy and keeps your plants from drying out or getting overwatered.

And for those empty coffee cans, decorate them with leftover wallpaper or fabric and pot them with beautiful flowers. - Peggy Pace, Elizabeth, Colo.

Dear Heloise: When we moved to a new home, the squares in the silverware basket of the dishwasher were larger than in my previous dishwasher. The handles of my flatware were always slipping through.

I cut squares of plastic canvas craft material to fit the inside surfaces and sewed them in with dental floss.

You would be surprised at how many things can be mended or sewed with dental floss. It is stronger than any ordinary thread you can buy in the store. The unwaxed kind is best to work with. - Elsie Edaburn, Hiawatha, Iowa

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