and keep any elastic waist-band from clothing that has worn out to add to other clothes to replace others that have lost their stretch.

helpful hints from heloise...

i9 remeber a book long ago that had a solution for wearing socks for a long time...get tube socks with no heel and when you wear a holde in the heel turn them around so the hole is on top of your foot..you can do this 3 more times..before you have to get new ones.
(I guess Colonel Townsend Wheeler had not heard of darning) why does colonel not have an "L" in it when you pronounce it? It only has an "r".