Hints will solve garment problems in an emergency

Dear Readers: When you are traveling or on the go, sometimes things happen to the clothes you are wearing. Here are some quick-fix hints for handling emergency garment problems:
If you spill coffee or water on washable clothing, blot the fresh spill with a cloth soaked with warm tap water.
If you notice a spot on a garment while you are in a restaurant or hotel, rub the stain with white bar soap. Then wash and rinse. Some liquid hand soaps in restaurants can be used to quick-clean a spill. Hotel shampoo can be a good stain-remover, too.
If the garment you want to wear is wrinkled, hang it in the bathroom while you shower. The steam should take out most wrinkles. Heloise
Dear Heloise: Here are my hints for recipes and for recycling magazines. When I'm reading a magazine, I put sticky tabs on the pages that have a recipe I want. When I'm all through with the magazine, I copy the pages I want using my scanner, print them and put them in a three-ring binder with plastic sleeves, by category. This also keeps the pages clean when I am cooking.
Right now, I am sending my magazines to Iraq to my daughter-in-law, and she recycles them with the troops in her unit. So the magazines never go to waste. Helen Hart in California
Helen, keep sending those magazines that bring a little bit of home to people far away. Heloise
Dear Heloise: I buy big bags of chips from the discount membership store. To save space and keep them fresh, I divide the chips and put them in gallon-size, resealable freezer bags, or I use the sandwich size and go ahead and make several for ready-to-go lunch packs. It saves money and time. Debbie from North Carolina
Dear Heloise: When it is time to put a new trash liner in the trash can, I put two bags in the can, one opened on top of the other. This makes emptying trash a little easier, and if I'm rushed, there is already a liner in place, and I don't have to put one in.
I also work part time at a convenience store. We do this there, too, and it works great. An added bonus is that it keeps the cans clean. No one likes to have to scrub out sticky trash containers. Randine S., Omaha, Neb.
Dear Heloise: I have seen letters from readers about photos that are stuck to the glass of the photo frame. You might suggest to anyone having important photos that they want to frame to get a bigger frame and put border matting around the photo. This will keep the photo from being next to the glass. Marge, New Caney, Texas
Send a great hint to: Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, Texas 78279-5000, Fax: (210) HELOISE or E-mail: Heloise@Heloise.com.
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