Does the glass liner in your thermos bottle have a “tendency” to break? You won’t have that problem anymore if you follow this tip from Bill and Sandy Penny of Waynesboro, Virginia: snugly pad the air space around that fragile inner cylinder with six to ten layers of paper towels.
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