Nothing gets a draft going in a cold flue as fast as crumpled up newspaper set ablaze.
If we didn’t have such an abundance of flyers and cardboard I’d probably be more willing to try something else, but it just doesn’t make sense to throw something that is free and works away, then spending money buying something to replace it. And it's not just the purchasing of the firestarter that bothers me, but I'd need to buy more recycle bags to stuff all the extra cardboard and newspaper in, and if I'm going to take the time to crush and tear up cardboard boxes to fit in those flimsy little blue bags I'd just as soon throw it in the stove and burn it.
Some may call that being cheap, I just call it being thrifty.
If we didn’t have such an abundance of flyers and cardboard I’d probably be more willing to try something else, but it just doesn’t make sense to throw something that is free and works away, then spending money buying something to replace it. And it's not just the purchasing of the firestarter that bothers me, but I'd need to buy more recycle bags to stuff all the extra cardboard and newspaper in, and if I'm going to take the time to crush and tear up cardboard boxes to fit in those flimsy little blue bags I'd just as soon throw it in the stove and burn it.
Some may call that being cheap, I just call it being thrifty.