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by brn2btl 11 Jan 2009 ( edited Jan 23'09 12:29 )
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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."

Comments (19)
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by gramsbear 11 Jan 2009
+5
Thanks for the tips, Makes me think. *4U
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by kharriman 11 Jan 2009
+6
Nice tips!!! Thanks***4U

Karen
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by auntbaba 11 Jan 2009
+4
Good to know! Thanks. *4U
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by nurselilly 11 Jan 2009
+3
nice ideas thanx :)
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by elaine45 11 Jan 2009
+3
Thanks for all of this useful info....
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by brendaleas 11 Jan 2009
+2
wow! I learned something today!
Thanks for sharing.
Brenda Lea
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by lbrow 11 Jan 2009
+4
One more thing, they will do in a pinch for cut away stabilizer on a small design *
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by marietta 11 Jan 2009
Great to know, would never have thought of this neither. Thank you.
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by sherylac 11 Jan 2009
+2
Well, my goodness, isn't this all amazing, thank you
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by edenandandrea 11 Jan 2009
+3
This list is great. I learned alot Thanks!
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by solosew 11 Jan 2009
+3
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 rmj8939 11 Jan 2009
+1
These are all so good ideas.
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by marietta 11 Jan 2009
+1
Goodness gracious me, would never have thought of all this. Thank you very much.
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by maleah 11 Jan 2009
+1
thx 2 u & a flwr 2
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by ashta 11 Jan 2009
0
Oh my never knew all that! Amazing what you can use with our everyday things!
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by damaris 11 Jan 2009
0
What great idesa. thanks
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by grandmamek 11 Jan 2009
0
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 marjialexa 11 Jan 2009
0
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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by dstipdonk 12 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 asterixsew 22 Jan 2009
0
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 sissibrode 23 Jan 2009
0
Very good advice and more ecological. Thanks *