by brn2btl 10 Jan 2009

COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....

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 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. Soaks out all the grease.

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

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by sissibrode 23 Jan 2009

Very good advice and more ecological. Thanks *

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by asterixsew Moderator 22 Jan 2009

Thanks for some new ideas, I use coffee flters to strain oil after frying. We certainl get some good ideas from Cute - as well as the sewing related info
*4u

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by marjialexa Moderator 11 Jan 2009

Cool ideas!! Now anybody have an easy way to get the blinkin' things apart when you can't see and you're fumble-fingered? Sometimes I think the little buzzards are glued together, hee hee hee. Marji

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dstipdonk by dstipdonk 11 Jan 2009

Here's one- my husband saw me fumbling yesterday, and he said, just blow on it! Works like a charm!

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by grandmamek 11 Jan 2009

thank you for all the information. Some I have heard of and then there are a few here that are new to me. It is great information!!

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by damaris 11 Jan 2009

What great idesa. thanks

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by ashta 11 Jan 2009

Oh my never knew all that! Amazing what you can use with our everyday things!

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by maleah 11 Jan 2009

thx 2 u & a flwr 2

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by marietta 11 Jan 2009

Goodness gracious me, would never have thought of all this. Thank you very much.

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by rmj8939 11 Jan 2009

These are all so good ideas.

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by solosew 10 Jan 2009

Well, I have a permanent coffee filter. I may just have to go and buy some coffee filters anyway!!

Thanks for sharing.

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by edenandandrea 10 Jan 2009

This list is great. I learned alot Thanks!

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by sherylac 10 Jan 2009

Well, my goodness, isn't this all amazing, thank you

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by lbrow 10 Jan 2009

One more thing, they will do in a pinch for cut away stabilizer on a small design *

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marietta by marietta 11 Jan 2009

Great to know, would never have thought of this neither. Thank you.

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by brendaleas 10 Jan 2009

wow! I learned something today!
Thanks for sharing.
Brenda Lea

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by elaine45 10 Jan 2009

Thanks for all of this useful info....

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by nurselilly 10 Jan 2009

nice ideas thanx :)

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by auntbaba 10 Jan 2009

Good to know! Thanks. *4U

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by kharriman 10 Jan 2009

Nice tips!!! Thanks***4U

Karen

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by gramsbear 10 Jan 2009

Thanks for the tips, Makes me think. *4U

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