Below are a couple of quick and easy tips to help you start your campfires. Struggling with the fire can certainly decrease your camping experience.

Start saving your dryer lint. It makes great tinder as it catches fire quickly. The only downside is that it burns up very quickly as well so make sure you have other tinder touching it to catch on.

Cotton balls rolled in vaseline will burn for about 3 minutes giving you plenty of time to get your fire started. The cotton balls can be stretched or manipulated depending on how your tinder and kindling is setup or for an easier angle to initially light.

Used together, the above is a great combination to get a fire started. It makes for a very easy experience especially when the weather isn’t so great.

Also the material can be stored in little black camera film cannisters or stuffed into an empty bottle of aspirin.

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