You may have seen this e-mail forwarded to your mailbox… I got a copy of it today and I’ve seen this list before. I wish I knew who the author was because I’d give them credit.

Coffee filters ..who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing.
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
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.
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.”

By the way, I really do use coffee filters to help protect my Christmas dishes. Actually the coffee filters I buy are for my iced tea maker. My coffee maker has a re-usable filter and doesn’t need paper filters.

Now, here are some more  fun links about coffee filters.

• Heloise at Good Housekeeping.
• Frugal Village.
• ThriftyFun forum.
• DIY Life.