I keep a Baggie stuffed with this stuff in my bag with my flint and steel, it is awesome fuel to help start a fire and its free, light and you can pack a ton of it in a ziplock bag.
I keep a Baggie stuffed with this stuff in my bag with my flint and steel, it is awesome fuel to help start a fire and its free, light and you can pack a ton of it in a ziplock bag.
A friend of mine goes one step further. he mixes the lint with bacon grease. I have found it is harder to light those with a flint and steel than is just lint/dryer sheets alone. Has anyone here try it with bacon grease?If you use dryer sheets, keep them after the load is done and you can wrap the lint up in one. They catch easy and it gets another use out of something that would just be thrown away.
Another thing on the dryer lint. If you have cardboard egg cartons, you can melt paraffin wax, mix it with your lint and fill up the cups in the egg carton. When it's hardened, you cut them apart and you have firestarters without the chemicals and they burn a good long while to help catch wet or greener wood. You can use candle wax as well, or beeswax, I use the Gulf paraffin from the store because it's cheap.
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