egg carton,lint from the dryer, old school crayons

school crayons ready to melted in a sort of make shift double boiler!

egg carton filled with the dryer lint

dryer lint from dog's beds ...ewwwww!

melted crayons turned wax being poured over dryer lint in egg carton

left over melted crayon wax will be saved and re-melted for next time!

The finished product! These little guys will help me start my fire in my fire pit tonight!

petroleum jelly and cotton balls

cotton balls covered in petroleum jelly...these work well too!

My last blog was about  "fire starters" and I wanted to post some pictures of the ideas I got from other people. I tried these and they do work really well! I really like the egg carton filled with lint and covered with wax because not only do they work really well and provide a nice steady flame for the tinder to catch but they are easy to carry too! The cotton balls are covered in petroleum jelly and once lit, they too provide a nice steady flame but you do need to put these in some sort of container (being they are greasy!) and they are also easy to carry!
This is a fun project (except the part where you peel the paper off the old crayons!) and even my kids like helping me prepare these. I also use melted candle wax from old candles although you could buy paraffin wax just as easily.
I learned these ideas from others and love to experiment with ideas for such things and come up with my own conclusions about each one! Anyway, I hope some of you can use these ideas to make life a little easier in some way!