Test-drive your grocery cart

Dear Heloise:Here's a way to cut down on your chances of getting stuck with wobble-wheeled grocery carts. Pick up a cart in the parking lot and "test-drive" it to the store entrance. If it rides straight and true, keep it. If it wobbles or veers off in one direction, exchange it for one at the door, and at least you've saved the courtesy clerks one cart pickup in the lot.< — Cathy L. from California

Good advice! Not only are you making your trip easier, you are doing a good deed by taking a cart in. — Heloise

Dear Heloise:When replacing your furnace filter, use a permanent marker and, on the outside border of the new filter (the edge that shows after the filter has been installed), write the date the filter was installed. This will enable you to determine when it should be replaced. — Bill in Nebraska

Dear Heloise: Don't lose those pierced studs in a jewelry box! Instead, stick the posts of two pair through the holes on a medium- to large-size button and attach the backs. This will help keep them visible, and they'll stay together, too! — Mona, via e-mail

Dear Heloise: My husband has a problem with colorblindness. I write the color with a permanent marker on the inside pocket of his trousers. The pockets usually are white. This makes it much easier for him to select pants and match with shirts. — May P., Universal City, Texas

Dear Heloise: I love my liquid yogurt, but I hate to throw away the cute little plastic bottle. So I found another way to use it. They make lovely little vases for small bouquets of flowers. Now they are all over my house. — Madeleine Adams, San Antonio

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