Where do you keep coffee filters in your home? The kitchen? Ha! That's for amateurs! The real techies know that coffee filters are awesome to keep around in your living room and home office. Trust us! When you sit down to a gloriously lazy midday viewing of the Jersey Shore marathon, you'll have the perfect catch-all for clearing the screen of dust and lint.
Haven't made the move to single-serving coffee makers yet? Well, good. You've got one leg up on your Keurig competition by keeping coffee filters stocked in your house.
It turns out that those little rippled cones of blotting paper that filter your morning brew are perfect for clearing the dust from your television screen or computer monitor.
They'll catch the dust and cut static on the screen, all without leaving behind any fibers like paper towels would.
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Comments (12)
I like using used dryer sheets. Never tried the coffee filter method since we don't drink coffee in the household.
I will have to try that out. Much cheaper than swiffer.
The paper doesn't scratch the screen?
They can also be used for waxing (ie: legs) and as actual blotting paper. Handy little suckers :D
coffee filters are great lint-free cleaners. Back in the days when I worked at a print shop, I got the tip from HP tech support to use a coffee filter dampened with water to clean the contacts on my industrial ink cartridges and print heads. Works just as well on home printers. I can't remember what else I've used coffee filters to clean... but if I'm in need of a lint-free cloth and can't find one, my next stop is the cabinet with the coffee filters.
We use them as bowls for the community snacks at work. Just enough to keep the cheez balls or pretzels from getting away, dirt cheap.
I use dryer sheets for this too, and also for dust on porcelain in the bathroom!
Just installed a new CPU and used it to clean up the thermal grease on my cooler.
Coffee filters work really well on cuts, too. We nearly had to go to the emergency room for stitches...but grabbed a coffee filter to stop the blood flow (closest thing at hand). It was amazing how much it helped. I've used them lots of times since then if needed and they always work really well.
This makes sense...I always chuckle at my local Dunkin Donuts as I watch the staff use them for pretty much every cleaning task they do.
Awesome. Coffee filters have so many great uses. My personal favorite: spinning them into yarn, which is fantastic for knitting or crocheting things like baskets, placemats, and other funky household items. You can even color the filters with markers before you cut and spin.
You can also use coffee filters to wipe down the top of a porcelain stove top if you don't want to scratch it up...Trust me, it works great!