{"id":584,"date":"2013-09-05T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/?p=584"},"modified":"2013-11-11T19:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:24:51","slug":"more-than-that-great-cup-of-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/post\/more-than-that-great-cup-of-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"More than that great cup of coffee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who knew!\u00a0 And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for $1.00, even the large ones.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome…\u00a0 Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Protect\u00a0China\u00a0by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Filter broken cork from wine.\u00a0 If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.\u00a0\u00a0
5.\u00a0 Protect a cast-iron skillet.\u00a0 Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Apply shoe polish.\u00a0 Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Recycle frying oil.\u00a0 After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Weigh chopped foods.\u00a0 Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Hold tacos.\u00a0 Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.\u00a0<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot.\u00a0 Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 Prevent a Popsicle from dripping.\u00a0 Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0 Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows?\u00a0 Use strips of coffee filters..\u00a0<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0 Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them..\u00a0 It soaks out all the grease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0 Keep in the bathroom.\u00a0 They make great “razor nick fixers.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0 As a sewing backing.\u00a0 Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqu\u00e9ing soft fabrics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0 Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0 Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.\u00a0<\/p>\n

18\u00a0 Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0 Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0 Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.\u00a0 Saves on having extra bowls to wash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0 Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

22.\u00a0 Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

23.\u00a0 Use them to sprout seeds.\u00a0 Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a zip-lock plastic bag until they sprout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.\u00a0 Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book.<\/p>\n

25.\u00a0 Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.<\/p>\n

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS TOO<\/p>\n

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Who knew!\u00a0 And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for $1.00, even the large ones.\u00a0 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.\u00a0 2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome…\u00a0 Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling. 3.\u00a0 Protect\u00a0China\u00a0by separating your good dishes with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-how-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simplymadcats.com\/blogsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}