Joyful Hearts Farm ~ A joyful heart is good medicine......Proverbs 17:22
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
FRUGAL FIRE STARTER IDEAS!

Posted in Proverbs 31 Homekeeping

Make your own fire starters!

We have been purchasing ours as we heat with a woodstove and do not have a heater in our home. It was 36 degrees this morning......and to think we had our A/C running last week as we were in the 90's! Ugh. So now I'm back to thinking *winter* with my wood stove giving off some much needed warmth this morning after a chilly morning of goatie and chicken chores. 

Those fire starters we have been purchasing are very expensive and we have to drive a long way to get them.......but they work FABULOUS!  So I thought I'd look online to see if I can make these at home.....I was delighted to find out not only how easy they are to make, but that I can use pine shavings and dryer lint too! Cool! Here are some websites if you'd like to make these as well!>

 

http://guidezone.e-guiding.com/jbfirest.htm

http://www.lovetheoutdoors.com/camping/Tips/firestarters.htm

http://www.solareagle.com/PREP/FSTART.HTM

 This next one is great......I like the photo's that accompany the article

http://www.onestopcandle.com/candle/firestarter.php

 

Fern

www.JoyfulHeartsFarm.com

 


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