HELOISE Address labels provide laughs as well as uses

Dear Heloise: I could not keep from responding to your column about address labels. For years, my mother has been the brunt of jokes from our family because of her address labels that she puts on everything! No matter what it is, if we turn it upside down, there is one of her address labels.
Our father passed away five years ago. Last summer, our area was hit by extremely severe storms that produced dangerously high winds and hail. A few days after the storm, my mother was upset to find that the expensive artificial-flower arrangement that she had just placed on the top of my father's headstone had disappeared in the storm. Well, believe it or not, a week or so later we discovered the flower arrangement back on Dad's headstone, safe and sound! The man who is in charge of mowing the cemetery found the arrangement. When he turned it over, there was my mother's address label. He knew immediately where to place the flowers!
We will always joke about the address labels, but we do agree that they have great uses other than just on the corners of envelopes! J. Wegner, Omro, Wis.
Speaking of address labels, here are some great uses for them from Foster Marlow of San Marcos, Texas:
When I go to a potluck dinner, I put a label on my dish, serving spoon, etc.
Each of my golf clubs has an address label just below the grip.
When I know I'm likely to buy raffle tickets at a meeting, I take a sheet of address labels to avoid a lot of writing.
I put them in all of my books to identify ownership.
Dear Heloise: I often have a lot of leftover dips from parties, etc. One day, I was making mashed potatoes and was in the fridge to get some butter when I ran across one of these leftover dips. It just so happened to be onion dip. Instead of the butter, I put the dip in the potatoes and continued on with the whipping. My family thought the mashed potatoes were the best that I had ever made.
Now, I freeze the dips into cubes, and when I want to make "special" mashed potatoes, I just pop as many cubes as I need into the potatoes. Pauline F., Weare, N.H.
Dear Heloise: My Sound Off is seeing a product on sale in a circular and going the same day to purchase it, only to find out that they are already sold out. This has happened to me on more than one occasion, and it drives me nuts!
I know that I can get a rain check, but that means another trip! K.M. from Colorado
One of my assistants had this happen, and when she complained, they brought the item from another store for her. Heloise
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