Coffee filters. Who knew!  Here are some innovative ways to use them all over the house.  And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing. 
 
Coffee Filters:  Not just for making coffee....
 
 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 all the grease.
 
 14. Keep in the bathroom.  They make great "razor nick" fixers