SAVING BAGS: Adding to the tips we sometimes share with readers, reader Millie Williams called with her own domestic tips.

Millie saves the orange sleeves in which her newspaper is sometimes delivered, explaining she finds them “very, very useful” to have around.

She’ll throw items such as banana peels — which she hates the smell of — in the bags when she throws them away to hide the odor. She said they also can be used as “pooper scoopers” when cleaning up after a canine friend.

In fact, she’s usually throwing her banana peel sleeve into a grocery bag, which she saves to use for garbage.

We save our grocery bags, too, as they fit perfectly in the little trash cans around the house. They’re nice to have around in case I need something to say, carry lunch to work in, too.

Have any of our other readers found uses for their newspaper sleeve? What other disposable items do people repurpose?

ERNIE’S AMERICA: With the recent anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we’ve had mention a couple of times of World War II journalist Ernie Pyle.

Clayton Vecellio of Lewis Run brought in his copy of “Ernie’s America: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s 1930s Travel Dispatches” edited by David Nichols.

Clayton writes, “I certainly believe it a good idea to proclaim Aug. 3 as National Ernie Pyle Day. I have read most of his books, and I appreciate his stories.

“I believe most people don’t know he wrote dispatches in 1920 and 1930 in the U.S.A.”

There is an active movement to create the holiday supported by the Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation.

WONDERFUL LIFE: It’s been a wonderful life for 70 years.

Christmas movie favorite “It’s a Wonderful Life” premiered on this day in 1946 at a charity event at the Globe Theater in New York City.