Drunken firestarters

That is awesome! I never thought of making my own, hell if these work I'll buy some from you

If you added in the booze and pistachios you'd have to get $50.00 for a two pack!

I melt garage sale candles and pour over egg cartons filled with sawdust. An "egg" is usually plenty to start a fire. If I didn't enjoy being frugal and making my own, I would definitely buy Super Cedars--they are a great product.

I have an unlimited supply of paraffin from work, I just compress sawdust and the wax for firestarters. The silicon baking sheets work well, or I'll compress in a tube and cut pucks. I need to make some for this year, haven't had time.

I do the old egg carton, lint and wax trick. I use broken crayons--with a couple little kids running around, I seem to have an endless supply of all three materials.

I do like northwinds with the egg cartons and sawdust/chips. I also use boxes of GulfWax from the grocery store.
The GulfWax isn't too expensive and makes about 30 per 1/4 lb. of wax.
Used one this afternoon.....works great.

Would creosote work?

Sure, just mix it with paraffin and sawdust.

I am often amazed at the brilliant ideas I come up with while drinking,
Then equally amazed at how stupid they sound the next morning.
Glad to see this one worked out Pen.

The fact that you can remember them is what amazes me.
I had many a revelation while under the influence of ......certain substances. Once, uh,....sober, they were gone.
Probably a good thing.

I literally just blew my soda out of my nose reading this! Words to live by man......

genius!

I make "boxes" (idea came up along the same lines as Pen's did)

I save cardboard boxes (Ritz, mac & cheese, etc), then I put the "hearth dust" into them, and add the scrawny left over kindling box pieces, and add torn up pieces of cardboard boxes along the way. Usually have about 7-8 of them on hand during the winter.

Take off like a rocket in some kindling and a few splits on a semi decent coal bed in the PE. Also work with a much smaller coal bed in the 13.

You can buy a small stack of cedar shingles at HomeDepot for about $7, when split apart, those make a lovely firestarter. Of course, it does cost $$, but it's easily a winters worth.

I gave away 2 truck loads of old shingles, and still have enough on hand for the next umpteen million years.
I may see if sunflower seed shells would work, just for the heck of it.

I was thinking the same thing about peanut shells while throwing them on the fire this past weekend...also while drinking!

Have a large bag of left over paraffin candles from year ago made in large tuna cans for Order of the Arrow ceremonies. Now I know what to do with them...melt and mix with sawdust,,,,