Who knew coffee filters could serve so many purposes? Better than paper towels, and a lot less expensive! Thanks Marsha for finding these interesting ways to use coffee filters. Here’s my top ten:

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows, mirrors and chrome…coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.

3. Filter broken cork from wine – If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

4. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

5. 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.

6. Use as a disposable snack bowl for popcorn, chips, etc. Less dishes to wash.

7. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.

8. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.

9. Keep in the bathroom, they make good “razor nick fixers”.

10. Protect china by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

<–One crafty person made a dress out of coffee filters!

And if none of these ideas sound good to you, they are always great to use in your coffee maker.