Heloise: The rap on wraps - Washington publish

expensive Readers: these days's pontificate is about newspapers with "wrap-arounds" on the front part.

"My criticism is about the newspaper's worrying three-quarter web page promoting cover of almost every challenge of the paper! It goes straight into the bottom of the chicken cage earlier than i can sit right down to study the paper.

"you can't even cling the entire section to examine it without putting off the further flapping; wasted paper." — Sharon in San Antonio

a different reader wrote, "The half web page cover on the front of our newspaper has turn into so stressful that as quickly as I get the paper, I rip that piece off and recycle it so i will enjoy the rest of the paper."

expensive Readers of newspapers: nowadays's newspaper world is way distinctive from handiest a couple of many years ago. Newspapers should do everything they can to bring in earnings whereas offering tips and entertainment for readers. As someone who has been during this biz for a loooooooooooong time (I grew up watching my mother, the fashioned Heloise), it's some distance enhanced to trade and adapt than to close the doors.

when you might also no longer just like the "wrap-around," it serves a intention. So take a hint from Heloise: Take the promoting page off (most do) and recycle. It takes only a few seconds to do so. appreciate your newspaper.

P.S.: Please be aware, as an internationally syndicated newspaper columnist, I do have a extremely powerful vested pastime in newspapers and in helping my readers. Don't quit!

expensive Readers: different objects that can also be used to store pierced jewelry:

1. historical neckties

2. area mats

3. Strips of ribbon

four. Socks

5. A sentimental T-shirt.

expensive Heloise: When my grandmother handed away, i stopped up with totes filled with stuff from my childhood. they have a extremely dangerous mothball odor. Please, can you help me?

Patricia M., by means of electronic mail

Patricia M.: this is a troublesome odor to get rid of. commonly, it's only air circulation for you to assist the odor to dissipate. So, let mother Nature be just right for you:

1. dangle clothes outside within the breeze.

2. Put garb into the dryer on only "fluff dry" and toss in a number of cloth-softener sheets.

pricey Heloise: I these days noticed a reader complaining concerning the measurement of the expiration dates on coupons and the way intricate they're to locate. when I find the date, I spotlight it. This makes it less difficult to locate the next time I view the coupon.

I also try to organize them in accordance with the expiration date. This helps me stay aware of old and latest coupons.

Jerry V., Galveston, Tex.

dear Readers: here's a touch to rescue a blanket that may also have shrunk within the dryer: just sew a long strip of matching-colour material to the backside of the blanket. that you may tuck this area beneath the foot of the mattress.

Heloise's column appears six days every week at washingtonpost.com/assistance. ship a touch to Heloise, P.O. box 795000, San Antonio, Tex. 78279-5000, or email it to Heloise@Heloise.com.

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