Use a coffee filter - It's not just for making coffee anymore

BY UNCOMMON USES FOR COMMON HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS

FC&A PUBLISHING

Paper towels leave fibers, newspapers sometimes streak, and they're a size that you have to cut and reshape.

Coffee filters are an inexpensive way to complete many household tasks.

Sparkling clear windows: You want your windows to sparkle, but when you dry them with a cloth or paper towel, you always seem to leave lint on the glass. Try drying them with a paper coffee filter instead, and you may eliminate the lint.

The first coffee filter was invented by a German housewife, Melitta Benz. Tired of brewing coffee directly in the water, she took some blotting paper from her son's schoolbook, put it in a brass pot that she had poked holes in and poured the boiling water over the coffee, through the filter and into the pot. It was the first drip coffeemaker and the Benz family began manufacturing Melitta coffeemakers.

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