Original Ideas for Using Coffee Filters

Here are some pretty original ideas for using coffee filters around the house to save money. This information has been circulating through emails and I do not know who wrote this originally but to who ever did, thank you.  When you begin using your new "one cup coffee maker" you will no longer need those coffee filters you have on hand for your old-fashioned coffee maker.  Why not put them to good use.

Coffee filters ..who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar store for almost nothing.

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.

Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll

leave windows sparkling.

3. Protect China...Separate your good dishes by putting 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 the drainage holes.

11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed ina 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.  Soaks out all the grease.

14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."

How to make a rose with coffee filter video.

15.  Use coffee filters to make beautiful roses.  See the "how to" videos on YouTube.com