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Missing my family more and more

Dear Annie: I have a problem and am earnestly seeking your help. I am a widow and I have three children. Our family has always been a close one. However, I have encountered a dilemma I never thought I would experience. My daughter is a divorced mother of four grown children. In the past, she always made sure she visited. This has changed in the last few years. Now she seldom visits. I have seen her once this year. She only lives two hours from me. I have asked if I have done anything to offend her in any way, and she assures me I have not. I have helped her financially and have ...

Reusing pudding containers

Dear Heloise: The 4-ounce plastic containers from jello, pudding and applesauce are great to use as measuring cups. I keep canisters full of flour, sugar, cornmeal and coffee. They work well in an oatmeal carton and with powdered laundry products. They are also wonderful for holding paint for crafts. The rectangular plastic containers that shortening sticks come in are excellent for keeping small medicine or nail polish bottles neat and upright. -- Joyce Moore, via email FRAUD PREVENTION Dear Heloise: If you put your credit cards in an Altoids tin, it will prevent anyone from using ...

Had it with office’s lack of hiring

Dear Annie: I’ve dated a man for five years. He used to work, prior to the pandemic, but he hasn’t really actively applied to jobs. My biggest issue is the fact that I’m paying all the expenses for the household we share together, and he doesn’t need to do anything to assist me. At the same time, he’s starting to treat me like a servant in my own house. He controls the TV. Foods that I like, he throws away, since he doesn’t eat them. He has outbursts and tantrums when I tell him to get a job. I’m fed up with supporting a grown man. What should I do? -- Frustrated Dear ...

Cleaning hairbrushes in the washer

Dear Heloise: To keep combs and brushes clean, remove as much hair as you possibly can from your combs and hairbrushes. Then, run them through a wash cycle in the washing machine with laundry detergent. They’ll come out cleaner than doing it by hand. -- Rebba C., Colorado Springs, Colorado Rebba, there are a number of things you can wash in the washing machine or dishwasher. I have plastic silverware holders in my kitchen drawers that I periodically wash in my dishwasher. I wash my down comforter on the gentle cycle in my washing machine, then hang it outside on a sunny day to ...

Doanld “Sep” Tauer

Aug. 20, 1938-Oct. 7, 2023 NEW ULM—Donald “Sep” Tauer. 85, of New Ulm died Saturday, October 7, 2023 at Woodstone Assisted Living in New Ulm. A visitation will be 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Saturday, October 14, 2023 at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home SOUTH Chapel in New Ulm. Burial will ...

Miss New Ulm at firemen’s ball

JAN SCHARLEMANN, left, sponsored by Green Clothiers was crowned Miss New Ulm Saturday at the Firemen’s Ball in George’s. From left, runnersup in order, were Jill Schlong, Beth Burns and Rose Franta. (Photo by Ron Grieser) New Ulm Daily Journal, Oct. 8, 1973