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| Coffee filters ..who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing.
COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee... 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.
2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are
3. Protect China
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
6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter. 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve
8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee
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
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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- Posted by grandma_bonnie (My Page) on Fri, Jan 9, 09 at 21:52
| Wow - I had no idea!!! |
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| Some good ideas here!! Thanks!! Jan |
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- Posted by kudzukween (My Page) on Sat, Jan 10, 09 at 7:49
| Great ideas :D I use them in crafting,too. You can make roses from both kinds of filters, cone and ruffled. And I've seen angels made from them,too. |
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- Posted by toomuchglass (My Page) on Sat, Jan 10, 09 at 15:25
| They're just like vinegar - no end to their uses ! |
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| My mother told me that my grandmother used to make flowers and centerpieces out of coffee filters. Grandma has been gone since 1972 and the pattern with her. Another good use for them, if you do rubber stamping and use the embossing powder, coffee filters work great to catch the extra embossing powder and pour it back into the container. Tami |
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- Posted by concretenprimroses (My Page) on Thu, Jan 22, 09 at 19:03
| Wow great hints! I'm gonna go buy some! (I use the cone style in my coffeepot) kathy |
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| In October at the Parke county Indiana Covered Bridge Festival, I make and sell creampuffs and eclairs. I use coffee filters to set these on, for display. I use the large commercial size. |
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