Getting Down to Brass Tacks with a Button Hack
Dear Heloise offers a quick DIY fix for a missing shirt button using a flat head thumbtack cemented to a chosen button. A squeeze clamp fits over the tack tip to secure it, letting the wearer reattach in about 20 seconds.
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Co. M. Walsh
Crosswords Puzzle Clue Scramble From Old Page
A scrambled crossword style puzzle list includes many word clues with numbers and stray notes such as DEAR HELOISH and STEADAY'S PUZZLE. It blends fragmented hints, partial phrases, and stray author comments about sewing an ironing board pincushion.
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Heloise tips for gum hair and home hacks
A fan letter collection shares practical household fixes from Heloise readers. Advice covers removing gum from hair with peanut butter, anchoring crib legs with tape, making a mud rug from bottle tops, using a mud rug by the back door, repurposing a spray bottle for polish, sewing mattress handles, and baking oatmeal cake in a ceramic skillet with a topping under the broiler.
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R. J. Simmons
Tax tips and deadlines from the IRS Q&A roundup
A reader questions dependents moving expenses withholding social security tax and more. The IRS guidance covers child dependents, moving cost deductions, estimated tax declarations, W-2 timing and state filing, survivor and executors rules, IRS compute offers for low income, combat zone signoffs, social security surcharge, and farmer versus nonfarm filing thresholds with due dates and instructions.
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