Homemade fire starters
As part of our journey to self sufficiency we made fire starters. These will be great for camping or just bon-fire starting.
We use
- egg cartons
- dryer lint
- candle wax
- wood chips
We received 2 black garbage bags FULL of wood chips….I wouldn’t purchase these otherwise. The fire-starters are fine with just the lint, which I have an abundance of.
For candle wax I just purchased a used candle from a thrift store and melted it down.
egg carton
melted down with my canning pot because I don’t have
a double boiler.
free wood-chips
stuff the lint into the egg carton then add wood chips
pour wax over and let cool
finished product
We will cut apart sections as we need them
with the left over wax we water proofed some matches
just dip the tips in and you’re good.
I bought the matches at the Dollar Store
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Hello,
My name is Michael Lanclos – My wife and I live around the Gonzales, Louisiana area.
I was looking at Seed swapping, Homestead, and Preppers web sites
I am a gardener my wife and I and grow our own heilrloom vegetables. I am also starting to learn survival skills.
My question is – I was wondering if you and your family garden and if so I will be more than happy to share some heirloom vegetable seeds with you. This brings me to my next question – I don’t know what area of the country you live but was wondering if you have access to any Flint or Chert for fire starting. If so we can do a swap for some vegetable seeds.
If you are interested please email me at mclanclos@eatel.net and I will forward you my heirloom vegatble seed list
Thanks
Michael