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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: near Allentown, PA
Posts: 209
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: near Allentown, PA
Posts: 209
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ideas that sometimes work
the easy one first....if the object with a seemingly permanent label is washable (things like candlesticks and planters, NOT clothing), spray it with cooking spray - i think the olive oil type works best - and let it sit overnight.....the next morning, u may be able to peel off the label....if not, do it again.......i suppose u could just rub plain old cooking oil on the label, but i'm lazy and use the spray type.
clothing labels?....this one is a bit more complicated and doesn't work on everything, but it can be helpful.......i bought some stuff called "wonder under" at a fabric store and about a yard of the softest cotton fabric i could find....washed the fabric 3 or 4 times, then ironed on the wonder stuff.....it's a paper backed adhesive....u iron on the paper side so that the glue is now on the back of your fabric (and be very careful doing it, or u will end up scouring your iron and cursing a blue streak, as i did).....then i cut the fabric, which now has an adhesive backing, into small ovals - corners peel up too easily - and u have soft patches which can be ironed on, over top of any label not easily removed....this can't be used on very delicate fabrics because u can't get the iron hot enough to make the glue stick.....also, it tends to leave a small ridge on the right side of the fabric....a price i will gladly pay not to have those awful labels poking my neck......i like to leave the paper backing in place after cutting my ovals to make it easier to tell which is the glue side of the patch (see comment on scouring/cussing).....i don't know where else u could get this stuff, or if it has other names, but it's intended for crafters who want to make decorative patches, monograms, etc.....a fair bit of work in the beginning, but a yard of fabric makes a zillion little patches.
don't have any suggestions for doors that open the wrong way....i hate them too.
and u don't have to talk louder than usual to me because i use a cane!
and whatever happened to "you're welcome"......"no problem" is NOT always the appropriate answer to "thank u".
and WHY can't we get rid of pennies?....they're heavy, they're useless, they're dirty....let's just round off to the nearest .05.....it will even out .....and i'm very sure of this....i worked for a major corporation that tried keeping books with and without pennies.....the original plan was to do it for a year, but since, at 6 months, there was NO difference in the account totals, the trial period was scrapped, and we went to the even dollar system.
who else has a gripe?
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best to all,
liz
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