DEAR HELOISE: When you need to replace your vacuum cleaner, check to see if the extension wands from your old vacuum fit your new one as well. The basic ones included with your new vacuum probably won ...

Dear Heloise: As a professional pet sitter, I have some advice for people who are leaving for a few (or several) days. Your pets will be okay if you remember the following common-sense things to do: ...

DEAR HELOISE: As a professional pet sitter, I have some advice for people who are leaving for a few (or several) days. Your pets will be OK if you remember the following common-sense things to do: • ...

When Beezy catches Heloise saving a panda (or what he thinks is saving) he and Jimmy decide to start a Heloise fan club for all the pandas who now adore her. When Beezy sells all of Lucius's riches ...

Dear Heloise: Times have changed so much in regard to weddings, but common sense sure shouldn’t change. How on earth would someone think about having a wedding and expect the guests to pay for it?

Dear Heloise: I keep a spray bottle filled with isopropyl alcohol that is set to shoot a stream -- not a mist -- at any cockroaches I see in my house. The alcohol is absorbed through their exoskeleton ...

Dear Heloise: We make fresh fruit pops by freezing lemon-lime soda with different fresh fruits: pineapples, blueberries and watermelon. -- Gaby E., in San Antonio Gaby, one caution: I wouldn’t suggest ...

Dear Heloise: We travel with two young children who get bored if they don’t have a few toys to play with. However, our car looks so messy with toys scattered everywhere. Help! -- Sherri, in Michigan ...

Dear Heloise: I just read your column in the Dallas Morning News and wanted to relay how I’ve almost eliminated the use of paper towels: I keep a stack of the cheapest white kitchen wash rags that I ...

Dear Readers: It’s Saturday; let’s clean! But are we cleaning or disinfecting? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cleaning is defined as using soap or detergent to remove ...

Dear Heloise: My husband and I have stopped eating red meat for health reasons, but all my CHICKEN recipes are dull, dull, dull. Got any suggestions to help spice them up? — Pat E., Columbia, Mo. Mix ...

Dear Heloise: Help! I cannot find your recipe for pistachio ambrosia, and my family would like me to make it! - Marilyn D. in Massachusetts Oh no, Marilyn! Here is my Heloise's Pistachio Ambrosia ...