Camp Fire Starters From Dryer Lint

2 Materials
$5
30 Minutes
Easy

Easy and inexpensive way to start all your campfires this summer without lighter fluid or other flammable liquids!

Summer means Campfires with plenty of hotdogs and s'mores at our Ranch! We love our fire-pit and use it as much as possible in the summer months! Of course we have been know to roast a few hotdogs in the winter!


One of the easiest ways to start a campfire is to make a dozen or so fire starters from dryer lint! Yep dryer lint! This is an easy and cost efficient project that will bring hours of fun and memories! (almost free fire starters)

Add a few easy steps and you will have that campfire burning in no time!

So click right Here>  https://www.myturnforus.com/camp-fire-starters-from-dryer-lin/ for all the step by step directions to make these "almost free" fire-starters for all your summer fun! And bring S'mores because we love s'mores!

Suggested materials:
  • Wax
  • Dryer lint
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  • Sandy Phillips Sandy Phillips on Jul 06, 2016
    What kind of wax and where do you get the wax ? Clever idea, thanks for sharing :-)
  • Chey Chey on Jul 23, 2016
    Most helpful and great idea! Thank you! Can melted left over candle wax be used and then cooked over? ..... I'm not wax savvy and I know home candles have scent and color and whatever else.....
  • Bol12835094 Bol12835094 on Oct 27, 2016
    Can these be used inside in the fireplace?
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  • Mary Russell Mary Russell on Apr 27, 2019

    When we had a wood burning furnace,the method I used was to cut small twigs.and other small pieces of wood,then place them into a gallon emptied paint bucket of kerosene.The wood soaks up the kerosene and makes for quick fire starters.these were kept under a larger bucket to keep the odor down,but as they were just outside my back door of my walk-out basement ,there was never any problem in that department anyway.

  • Andreacaa Andreacaa on Apr 28, 2019

    I save all my dryer lint all winter long in a plastic bag in my laundry room. I also save empty paper towel rolls(which I cut in half) and toilet paper rolls. Stuff these with the lint, use to start fires in the fire pit. Wax not needed. But now, I will save my candle stubs to and an egg carton or two as well.

    • JAH JAH on Apr 29, 2020

      Seems like a wonderful resource-conserving thing to do HOWEVER- so many of our synthetic clothing materials shed fibers when we do laundry- especially polyester- not only do these microplastics pollute the ground-water and/or end up in the ocean, but lots end up in the dryer lint. Not good to breathe lint dust or burn it either. Sorry for the news. Modern life is complicated these days. Love the egg carton/wax part!

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