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medicine that he or she doesn’t like, © 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
• Keep a plastic garbage bag in your
starring Tom Berenger, and it
let the child eat half of a Popsicle first.
glove box or somewhere in your car.
got me to wondering what he’s been
Then give him the medicine, and let
You can poke arm and neck holes for a
up to lately. — Mary W., Southbury,
him have the other half. This is especially
rain poncho, cover a stuck or broken
Conn.
helpful during fevers or with
window to keep rain out or use it to
A:Tom can be seen on the big vomiting, when you want to stave off corral all your things if you ever get
screen — and in 3-D — in the
dehydration. Ice pops are easier fluids
into an accident and need to have your
summer blockbuster “Inception.”
to ingest, and the cold interrupts the car towed.
FYI: So far, this is my favorite movie
bad taste of the medicine.” — M.L. in
• Have a squeaky floorboard? Try
of the summer.) His movie “Sinners
Arkansas
sweeping some talc or baby powder
and Saints” also is touring the festival
• “You can buy fancy hide-a-keys for
into the space between the boards. It
circuit.
your home that look like rocks, etc., can serve as a lubricant, and oftentimes
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and have a hidden compartment. But
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• “Use small sticky notes to help
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all you want is to have a spare emergency
with studying and learning in young
her at letters@cindyelavsky.com. For
the Book of Galatians in the Old
Judges 7, who had the key. Put a copy of your house children. You can cover up part of a
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flash card, making them easy for a
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and bury it in a memorable spot. Stick use flags to cover up words in a story,
a rock on top to remind you of where it then have the child write a new story © 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
Testament or neither?
is buried.” — V.E. in Washington by writing a new word on the flag.
• If your small appliance has a long Kids can practice math or spelling on
cord, try looping it and stuffing the the go. There are hundreds of uses for
excess through a cardboard papertowel these lovely paper tools.” — G.A. in
or toilet-paper roll. New York
• Protect the teeth on handsaws by
“I keep a fun toy set in the trunk of
• Protect the teeth on handsaws by
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covering them up in storage. Cut a
2. “What Makes You Different
Features Weekly 9, 2010 length of garden hose to fit the length (Makes You Beautiful)”
Features Weekly 8, 2010 of the saw, then split it down the side. 3. Rick Allen of Def Leppard lost his
Push the teeth of the saw into the split,
arm in 1984 when he was thrown from
and your saw — and you — are protected.
a car. He was able to continue drumming
with the use of custom-built
• “Here’s an excellent way to save
drum kits.
money: Foster a relationship with
4. “Mrs. Robinson.” The movie was
your immediate neighbors to form a
released 1967, the song came out as a
natural cooperative. You can borrow
single in 1968, and it earned a Grammy
tools and resources, perform group
for Record of the Year in 1969.
tasks and share experience. These all
5. Loggins and Messina in 1976. It
build a better community, but they
appeared on their “The Best of
save money too.” — A.A. in Florida
Friends” album, along with “House at
Pooh Corner.”
• Ladies, pick up a bottle of inexpensive
6. Kansas, in 1976 and 1977. conditioner to use as shaving
cream. It softens and moisturizes © 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
while helping you to get a nice shave. — E.S. in Georgia
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