Many uses of coffee filters

No matter what the state of the economy, it’s no match for savvy and creative Mommas. I love finding economical ways to resuse products and ”reinvent the wheel” so to speak on uses/resues of products. One of my cousins sent this to me in an email and I wanted to share it, who knew there were so many uses for filters that I’ve purchased that was the wrong sizes.

  And you can buy 1,000 at  the  Dollar Tree / Store 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  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.


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.  Soaks out most all the grease.  

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

 

 

 

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS

I know there’s many other uses, please impart your savvy uses with us by leaving a comment!

Grocery Shopping Suggestions:

Grocery Shopping Suggestions:

Eat before you go grocery shopping so you won’t be tempted to make impulse purchases.

Don’t forget to buy the generic or store brand for those items where a brand name is not necessary: sugar, flour, toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, etc.

Stock up on food staples when they are on sale.

Buy store-brand cereal instead of national brands. If your household goes through a box or more per week, you can save over $100 per year by purchasing store brands.

When buying pre-packaged fruits and vegetables for a flat cost, i.e. 5 pounds of potatoes for $1.88, actually weigh the bags and find the bag that weighs more than 5 pounds.

Check out the price per ounce/pound/piece. Just because it is a big box, doesn’t mean it’s cheaper! Sometimes two smaller packages are cheaper than the big box. Compare prices ounce per ounce.

Stretch the food that exists in your cupboards. I bet you have enough odds and ends to last you at least a week in meals if you’re creative. I have learned to make wonderful meals out of rice and beans, noodles, and herbs.

When you cook a meal, cook twice as much and freeze the leftovers. This works great with cookie dough too.

The weeks when the sales are not so good could be light buying weeks. If you have some food in reserve, on these light weeks the extra food is like money in the bank. If you ever hit a rough patch, you might have enough to carry you through that time.

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