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Earlier today, found a great use for those paper coffee filters we use. Those round ones, like in Mr. Coffee coffeemakers.

Seems granddaughter needed to put some snacks in something to carry to the living room and she asked me for a paper towel. Well, I was making a new pot of coffee at the time and I just gave her a coffee filter. And it worked great and made clean up so much easier than if she had used a napkin or paper towel.

Now here are more great uses for coffee filters:

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers. Most times, better than a paper towel!
2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling. Works better if you spray the filter first.
3. Protect China – Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter between each dish. Same with moving.
4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter. Heck, coffee filters are just that for any liquid, filters!
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. Wife thought I was nuts, but even she has to admit this was a neat way to use a coffee filter.
11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
12. Wax Eyebrows – Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows?  Use strips of coffee filters.
13. Absorb Grease – Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc. on them.  Soaks out all the grease.
14. Razor nicks – Keep in the bathroom.  They make great “razor nick fixers.”

And lastly, I carry a package of coffee filters in our van. One use for a vehicle? Use as an emergency spout to put oil or transmission fluid in your vehicle to cut the waste and the drippage over your engine.