Better than paper towels

and a lot less expensive...

COFFEE FILTERS

Coffee  filters .... Who knew!   And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones. 

^1.   Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the  microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.  

^2.   Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome...  Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.
 
^3.   Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.
 
^4.   Filter broken cork from wine.  If you break the cork when opening a wine  bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter. 
 
^5.   Protect a cast-iron skillet.  Place a coffee filter in the  skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust. 

^6.   Apply shoe polish.  Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.  

^7.   Recycle frying oil.  After frying, strain oil through a sieve  lined with a coffee filter. 

^8.   Weigh chopped foods.  Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a  kitchen scale. 

^9.   Hold tacos.  Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods. 

^10.   Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot.  Line a plant  pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through&nb sp; the drainage holes. 

^11.   Prevent a Popsicle from dripping.  Poke one or two holes as  needed in a coffee filter. 

^12.   Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows?  Use  strips of coffee filters.. 

^13.   Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken  fingers, etc on them.  It soaks out all the grease.  

^14.   Keep in the bathroom.  They make great "razor nick  fixers." 
 
^15.   As a sewing backing.  Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics. 
 
^16.   Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors. 
 
^17.   Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews. 
 
^18.   Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car. 
 
^19.   Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills. 
 
^20.   Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies..  Saves on having extra bowls to wash. 
 
^21.   Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage. 
 
^22.   Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.. 
 
^23.   Use them to sprout seeds.  Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout. 
 
^24.   Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.  Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in  phone book.. 
 
^25.   Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc. 
  

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE
IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS TOO.

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