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HINTS FROM HELOISE

- Heloise@heloise.com Heloise P.O. Box 795000 San Antonio, TX 78279 King Features Syndicate

Dear Readers:

Here is this week’s Sound Off, about items rusting:

“My Sound Off is about things that are supposed to get wet, but when they do, they get rust. I’ve enclosed a photo. (Heloise here: The photo shows a string mop, with a metal ring about a third of the way down. Rust city!) I have rust on my bathroom basin and washing machine. Whoever made these products, didn’t they know they would get wet?”

Kathleen H., Camp Hill, Pa.

Kathleen, I am as outraged as you. Call the manufactur­ers right now! This is absolutely ridiculous! The metal ring around the mop is rusting? Huh? SHAME! Fight back. Call the manufactur­er; take the mop back to the store. DON’T buy that brand again.

Heloise Dear Readers:

Other items to use as a jewelry stand:

• A coffee-mug holder.

• A cupcake stand.

• A large frame with a screen in it.

• A corkboard with decorative thumbtacks.

• A small branch from a dead tree. Heloise

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HELOISE

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