Don't let vacuum clog with hair

Dear Heloise: I have discovered that having long hair is nearly as bad as having a shaggy long-haired dog in the family! In the past, when I vacuumed the carpets, the roller got filled with tightly wound strands of strong hair that had to be pulled out.

I went to my broom closet and found a scrubbing brush on the end of a broomstick. So, I tried long gentle sweeps of the surface of the carpet, and sure enough, I could pick up quite a bit of hair, saving some of the usual struggle of removing hair from the roller brush. -- Priscilla Zanni, Vancouver, Washington

PICTURE STORAGE

Dear Heloise: Many people have pictures of family and places they have been, and most of those pictures are just "pictures in a box." As most people now have computers, they should just scan those pictures, and they can put the "who, what or where" on its file name. Then, they can be stored on the computer or on flash drives, and can be searched for and found very easily. No longer just "pictures in a box" -- and in case of disaster, they can be saved. Plus, hundreds of pictures can be saved in just a little space. I put them in folders, with dates on them so that I could have months and years together. For example: Folder 2001, Mom and Dad, vacation at the beach. -- Gene Stephenson, Lesage, West Virginia

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