Freeze several bottles of water to put in the ice chest or cooler. It will keep food chilled without watering down everything in the cooler. It’s also cheaper than buying bags of ice – especially when you consider that you can drink the water when the bottles thaw.
Storage Solutions
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Coffee Filters – Look what they can do!
Coffee filters ..who knew! And you can buy 1,000 for almost nothing.
- Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.
- Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.
- Protect China. Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter between each dish.
- Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
- Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
- Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
- Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
- Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
- Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
- 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.
- Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
- Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters.
- Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.
- Keep in the bathroom. They make Great “razor nick fixers.”
- OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS!
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Appliance Cord Storage
Use empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords. It keeps them neat and you can write on the roll what appliance it belongs to.
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Storing Appliance Cords
- Use empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords. It keeps them neat and you can write on the roll what appliance it belongs to.
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Laundry Room Waste Basket
Find a small waste basket that fits right between the wall and your dryer (or between the washer and dryer). Measure to be sure you get the right size. If there is a gap that’s about 8 inches wide, then get a basket about that wide . . . just under the lip. The lip of the basket keeps it from sliding down to the floor, so it’s easy to clean out the lint trap and put the waste in the basket. Or, you can use the basket to store other things.
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Bathroom Organizing Tips
Use a small wooden or other decorative window box (normally used for plants) on your bathroom vanity to hold lotions and sprays. It will keep them in order and look nice, too. You can paint the box, if desired, to match the rest of the bathroom.
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