Wow! One, two or a few, but 23? That's a lot. Sometimes the pill count might be short for a legitimate reason, and if so, the pharmacy should inform you.

I have two ideas for disposable cameras. The first is to keep one in your car in the glove box. If you have an accident, you can take pictures right away for your insurance company.

      The second is at my kids' school. We would send cameras for the teachers to take pictures at special occasions or parties throughout the year. At the end of the year, my kids gave me the cameras back, and we developed the film and laughed at all the fun things they did through the year. My son's teacher took her picture with my son and also an end-of-the-year class picture. It was very special. They made a little album for me. What a keepsake!

I read the hint where the lady tied a red bandanna to her grocery-cart handle so she could easily identify it. That idea also works great for your luggage when traveling. So many pieces of luggage look identical now, but you can tie a small piece of brightly colored yarn to the handle, but not long enough to become entangled in the machinery.

When wearing a pin on the lapel of my suit, sometimes it opens up, and I'm always worried I will lose it.

      So, I cut the tip of a pencil eraser and put it through the stem of the pin (before closing the clasp), and now if the pin lock opens, I won't worry about losing it.

I travel occasionally for my work and always carry a portable smoke detector (it just hooks over the top of any door). I pack it when I visit friends and relatives, too — you'd hope everyone checks his or her detectors regularly, but you never know.

      I'm sure my friends and colleagues think I'm a little odd, but I also give the detectors as presents, and I always include batteries.

      You are not odd! The alarming number of house fires that happen because there is no smoke detector or the battery is dead is staggering. Play it safe! — Heloise

As I get older, I find that opening twist-off lids on glass jars gets harder and harder, even with previously opened ones that have been in the fridge.

      Because my rubber gloves are always handy, I have learned to grab one (I don't even bother to put it on), place the cuff over the lid and twist away. The glove gives enough traction to get even stubborn lids off, but when a new jar is exceptionally hard to open, I take the other glove and wrap it around the jar itself. Twisting the top part counterclockwise and the bottom clockwise usually does the trick.

      It takes less time to do it than to describe it. Hope this helps some other seniors in your readership!

I do a lot of my shopping online. When I receive confirmation of an order from a company that I haven't previously done business with, I create a new folder in my "in box" and put this information in the folder. All correspondence regarding it is then placed in this folder. If, at a later ti
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