You need:
- -TP rolls OR Paper Towel Rolls that you cut in half or thirds.
-The wax paper bag from cereal boxes, cake boxes, frozen waffle boxes (basically any wax paper bags you can can reuse)
-Dryer Lint
*Used Fabric Softener sheets, if you use them
(1) Take enough dryer lint that would lightly-moderatley fill a TP roll and place it on one of the *fabric softener sheets. Stretch the lint out on the dryer sheet and roll it up, so that it will be a little log shape.
*If you don't have a dryer sheet to use, just go to the next step
(2) Place the little wrapped lint log into the wax paper bag (1/2 bag). Roll it Fold up the sides of the wax paper bag so it
(3) Wrap the wax bag around the lint to make a little log that you slip into the TP roll: Fold your sides in first, then roll the bag around the lint. (This is why is oke having two open ends on one of the bags, when you cut a big bag in half).
(4) Slip your wax paper/lint log into the TP roll, so the TP roll is a sleeve around the wax paper/lint log.
The combination of the paper TP roll that quickly catches fire from your match, the wax on the paper and the flammable lint makes a nice combination that has never let us down in getting those fires started quickly.
Plus, I like the fact that I'm 'recycling' three or four different things I'd usually be throwing in the trash!
** I'm thinking that, if you wanted to, you could pop a vaseline-cotton ball into one end, too. We've had good luck w/out doing that, but it's an option.
We store the fire starter logs in the long plastic bags that our newspaper gets delivered in. It's just the right width.
Now I know after you read my firestarting post you wanted some of the egg carton firestarters for yourself, didn't you? Well, I'll sell you some of mine, or you can just make some of your own for almost no cost!