Coffee Filters: 15 Household Uses

h/t: Ike

Coffee filters!... Who knew?

And you can buy 1,000 at the dollar store for almost nothing. (A dollar?)

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. (Note: Oil of any kind which has been repeatedly heated to its smoking point will lose it's natural antioxidants and begin to accumulate free radicals and other cancer causing substances. Whether this has actually caused cancer in humans has never been proven. - source)

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. (I love this use!)

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

12. Forget expensive strips for waxing those eyebrows, etc. Use strips of coffee filters.

13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, french fries, chicken fingers, etc. on them to soak out all the grease.

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

15. OH YEAH, THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKER. ;P