I am 75 years old and find that fumbling with prescription containers gets to be a pain.
I’m a volunteer at a local shelter for animals. We are bursting at the seams with cats, dogs, ferrets, large birds, snakes, and an assortment of other pets that are no longer wanted for one reason or another. We’re not unusual, because there are animal shelters all across this country that are overloaded with strays, rejects, and litters of unwanted babies.
If you have a pet, get it spayed or neutered, have it microchipped, and make sure that it has all its shots. Never abandon a pet. Never dump an animal in a strange neighborhood and expect other people to feed and home what was your responsibility! When you get a pet, it’s for their entire lifetime. -- S., in Boston Some have a tough foil on the top with tiny tabs to remove it. I used to remove the foil, then dump out several pills, or reach in and try to fish out one pill.
Now I get a pointed pair of scissors and poke a hole in the foil just a little bigger than the pill. So, when I need to take a pill, I just turn the bottle and shake them out one at a time. -- M.B., in CaliforniaIf your window or window pane gets cracked, tackle this task carefully. To prevent cutting yourself, crisscross both sides of the broken pane or window with many strips of masking tape. Then gently tap out the glass with a hammer. The tape should contain most of the glass.
My dryer has a helpful “refresh” steam cycle. I put four scatter rugs in the dryer at a time for about 30 minutes. They come out nice, clean and refreshed after all that tumbling around, which is much better than shaking them outside. All the cat hair and debris is captured in the lint trap! -- L.L., in San AntonioBack in the day, when I lost my wallet, I was able to backtrack where I’d been the day before and get it back.
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