Dear Heloise: Regarding a recent hint in the Arizona Daily Star about how to find your parked car: If you have an iPhone, you don’t have to remember to take a picture or make notes. When you can’t find your car, just go to the maps app and ask for directions to your parked car. It keeps track of where you stopped driving!

It doesn’t always work, but it does address the main problem: “If I could remember to take a picture or make a note when I park, I could remember where I parked!”

That being said, I am careful to take a picture when I park in a big structure at an airport. — Darin Williams, Tucson, Arizona

TOOTHBRUSH HYGIENE

Dear Heloise: We have one electric toothbrush with separate toothbrush heads for each of us. We store the heads in shot glasses that are filled with mouthwash. Every brush is color coded so that we don’t get them mixed up, but even if we do, the brushes are cleaned sterilely every time. — Istello, via email

EYEGLASS TRICK

Dear Heloise: Now that it is winter, and I wear eyeglasses, I always try to remember to do what my eyeglass-wearing dad always did in the wintertime during my years growing up in Detroit: He would back out of the door of a house or walk with his back facing in when he would come in from the cold outside. Then he would turn around, which went a long way in preventing his glasses from fogging over.

It can be a real hazard, and it does get cold enough in Houston in the winter for people to need this hint! — Phyllis Stover, via email

DONATING GREETING CARDS

Dear Heloise: We also receive numerous charity greeting cards, notepads, and address labels. Of course, the labels must be shredded. However, our local senior center is very appreciative to receive donated greeting cards, notepads and magazines. I also donate paperback and hard-copy books to them.

If they receive too many at a time, they forward them to local nursing/convalescent homes. — Patty F., Lancaster, California

CARING FOR ANIMALS

Dear Heloise: I’ve been reading your column for many years, and I like the way you champion animal rights. Too many people in my state abandon animals when they are no longer puppies. One of the members of a social club I belong to told me that he and his wife took their 6-month-old puppy to a shelter because it chewed up one of his wife’s leather shoes. But it wasn’t the dog’s fault; it was on the owners for leaving the shoes out where the puppy could find them.

No pet should live outside or be abandoned because the owners are too lazy to interact with the animal and properly train them. This doesn’t mean hitting the animal, starving it, or mistreating it in any way. Abuse only teaches the animal to fear and even hate its owner.

If you adopt a pet, get it neutered, make sure that it gets its shots, and take it to the vet if it gets sick. Feed it decent food, not the cheapest food you can find. Pet it, play with it, and show affection toward the animal — or don’t get a pet. — C.H., in Indiana

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