Hints From Heloise

Thu., Feb. 26, 1998

King Features Syndicate

Dear Heloise: For people who get weary searching for the right tube of whatever, those cardboard boxes from multiple bars of soap are handy for storing tubes of medicine that take up so much room otherwise.

Cut off one end of the box and stand it on the other and you have a multiple compartment storage unit. Tubes can stand on end and the boxes can be covered with adhesive decorating paper to pretty them up.

I keep them on a turntable that I found at a garage sale. The turntable saves breakage/spillage from knocking over items while reaching for others. - Betty Chastain, Greenville, Texas xxxx

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