I received these neat tips in an email and thought they might be useful to others, enjoy!

Standard coffee filters like these are best for most of the uses described here.

Coffee  filters

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the  microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers. 

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome…  Coffee filters are lint-free, so they’ll leave windows sparkling. 

3.  Protect China by separating your good dishes with 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.  It soaks up all the grease. 

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

15.   As a sewing backing.  Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics. 

16.  Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odours. 

17.  Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in, to put in soups and stews. 

18.  Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car. 

19.  Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and to clean up small counter spills. 

20.  Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit, or veggies.  Saves on having extra bowls to wash. 

21.  Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage. 

22.  Use them to remove fingernail polish, when out of cotton balls. 

23.  Use them to sprout seeds.  Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout. 

24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.  Place the flowers between two coffee filters, and put the coffee filters in phone book. 

25.  Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc — ESPECIALLY WHEN TRAVELLING!

OH YEAH!!   THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS, TOO. 

…. Who knew!   And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Store for almost nothing,  even the large ones.