Want to know the secret of success for taking rose cuttings?

Before planting cuttings, push the bottom end into a small potato, which is believed to keep the cuttings moist as they develop  roots. It sounds crazy, but check out this tutorial for growing roses from cuttings to see how it works!

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I received an email with this list of 25 ways to use a coffee filter and while looking for an image of a coffee filter to use in the post I realized there are MANY more ideas for coffee filters!! I’ll include a few of my favorites down below, but if you have an idea for how to use a coffee filter, please post a comment below.

Coffee filters … coffee-filters

Who knew? You can buy 1,000 at the discount store for almost nothing even the large ones.

This list of ideas is making its way around the internet…do you have an idea to add to this list?

  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 up 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. 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. 6a00d83452354569e2010536424328970b-500wi
  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.
  26. Natural Coffee Filter Garland from Pam Garrison  
  27. Coffee Filter Wreath (this includes a video) from Martha Stewart
  28. Coffee Filter Snowflakes from The Artful Parent
  29. Colorful Pompoms (photo right) from The Thrifty Crafter
  30. The fun never ends!! So many to choose from!

 

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Do you have small bits of paper you can’t bear to throw away, but don’t know what to do with them?

Do you salvage jars from pickles and pimientos?

This project MAY be the solutions for both things!

Check out this tutorial at Design Sponge.

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This takes you minutes to do and cost you pennies if you already have some essential oils in your cupboards.  You can customize it with any scent you like and prettify it with any color scrapbook paper.  Have I piqued your interest yet?  Hope over to Smashed Peas and Carrots to get started!

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Have a Boppy that needs a new cover?

VanillaJoy has a great tutorial.

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Next time you have a recipe that calls for a couple of chicken breasts, look at the price per kilo of that meat. Now look at the price of a whole bird. Doesn’t it make more sense to buy the whole bird, butcher it yourself and freeze the bits you don’t need right away?

Check out Jane Sarchet tutorial for how to Butcher a Chicken

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