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.