I just came across your blog and am now a follower : )

These firestarters are great; I used to heat a 100 yr old, 3000 square foot farmhouse entirely with wood stoves, and though the ideal was to never let the fires go out, the reality was it happened more often than I would have liked! I was SO glad when a friend told me about these firestarters, but the ones I made were with the dryer lint variation:

I kept empty paper egg cartons right on top of my clothes dryer, and when I emptied the lint trap after each load I stuffed the lint in the carton cups. When a carton got full, I would close it and start another one.

I kept an empty coffee can under my kitchen sink for all candle nubs and stubs. When I had enough of both cartons of lint and stubs, I would set the coffee can right on top of the woodstove until the wax melted.

Those things made my life so much easier when I’d get up in the morning to a freezing cold house and need to light fires in 4 stoves! Thanks for the tutorial – maybe someone else will be as grateful as I was to learn about these.