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Dear Heloise: I went online to learn how to make fortune cookies (it’s not difficult), and on a piece of paper that was 3 inches long and a 1/2 inch in width, I wrote out fortunes such as: “Temptation is sometimes mistaken for opportunity,” or “Take a much-needed vacation to a sunny place.” I placed the fortune cookies in a basket on the table during dessert. It was a big success because so many “fortunes” hit home with my friends.
— M.D., Bristol, Connecticut M.
D., what a clever and original idea! — Heloise Dear Heloise: When my husband passed away, I took all his Western shirts and made pillows for my great-grandkids. I also gave each one a picture of him wearing the shirt when he was holding them through the years.
To this day, they still treasure these pillows and the memories with him. Each one of them got a different shirt and photo. — L.
N., in Canby, Minnesota Silencing unknown callers Dear Heloise: I keep reading in your columns all these different ways to avoid phone calls, and it made me aware that a lot of folks may not realize there is a convenience built into our smartphones for this problem: Go to settings, then to apps, and select the phone menu. (This might be different depending on your brand of phone.
) Scroll down to “silence unknown callers” and turn it on. Now any caller who is not in your contacts list will automatically go to voicemail. My voicemail message says that I’m either away from my phone or that you are not one of my contacts.
If you want me to call back, you need to leave a message. Very few spam calls bother to even leave a message. Hope this helps.
— Kasey, in Prescott, Arizona.
