DEAR HELOISE: For keeping small items like eye pencils, my good tweezers and a sharpener findable, organized and tidy (and to keep points or blades from premature dulling and bouncing around in my makeup bag), I use a clear rubber glove and put things I want to protect into each finger. Then I clamp the wrist closed with a clothespin or a binder clip. It’s easy to grab and find items, and things are much tidier.

— Melissa A.,

in Oswego, New York

DEAR HELOISE: In response to Lee E., regarding Santa, our kids learned, in time, the truth about Santa. I let them know that I much prefer a world with Santa in it than one without. We have quite enough reality to contend with already.

— Randy, in San Antonio

DEAR HELOISE: I was appalled with the letter you received from Lee E. of Moseley, Vir

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