Coffee  filters .... Who knew!   And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones. 

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.  Protect China by separating your good dishes with 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.  It soaks out all the grease.  

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

15.   As a sewing backing.  Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics. 

16.  Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors. 

17.  Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews. 

18.  Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car. 

19.  Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills. 

20.  Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies..  Saves on having extra bowls to wash. 

21.  Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage. 

22.  Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls. 

23.  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. 

24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.  Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in  phone book.. 

25.  Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc. 
 

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS TOO.

 

 

§  CHURCH BULLETINS

 

o   They're back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins!

 

o   Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:

 

§  The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.

§  Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.

§  Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you.

§  Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.

§  Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

§  For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

§  Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

§  At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.

§  Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

§  Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

§  Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

§  The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.

§  Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.

§  The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

§  This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

§  Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. is done.

§  The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.

§  Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.

§  The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

§  Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

 

§  The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.