Dear Heloise: I recently read your column in Good Housekeeping magazine (May issue—Heloise) with your remedy for eliminating fish odors in an ice cooler. Here are a couple of my suggestions: After the wipe-down with vinegar or baking soda, insert either newspaper or charcoal, close the lid and let sit. After a couple of days, open the lid, remove the paper and/or charcoal and let sit in the sun.

This also worked really well when our power was out for a week and we lost everything in our freezer.—Kay, via e-mail

Hi, Kay. Your hints using newspaper and charcoal are a goo...

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