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Vintage Gems 1. More than one person in the house? Divide the tasks up into ‘blue jobs’ and ‘pink jobs’. For example: I have the washing machine, ‘He’ is not allowed to touch it. He has the dishwasher and ‘I’ am not allowed to touch it. Keep to the strict divide, locking up, taking rubbish, watering plants, cleaning pool, feeding dog etc. It saves repeated questions like “Have you locked up”? 2. Use rubber luggage bungies to hold sun mattresses onto sun beds. 3. To freshen up your m akeup, don’t add another layer, just blot your face with single layer of tissue, don’t rub. 4. If your daily tablets are in a blister pack, use a fine line marker pen to write the days of the week under each tablet. 5. If you hear people make disparaging remarks about buying freshly laundered clothes in charity shops, mention to them how many perspiring people might already have tried on their ‘New’ item in a retail store!