I’ve always used newspaper to light my fires. But it seems that newspaper has pretty much gone extinct. What do you all use to light your fires? Yes, I do have to relight my fires sometimes. So always keeping the fire going is not an option. My wife and I both work full time. Plus, it would get uncomfortably hot in my house if I kept the fire going all day - every day. Thanks, friends!
Don't burn that one! I don't get the newspaper either, but what's been serving me well is all the junk mail/envelopes (not heavily inked) and also toilet paper and paper towel tubes. That's what I prefer since they hold a flame a little longer than paper will.
I pick up a local auto & RV for sale flyer that's printed about magazine size on newsprint. After I'm done shopping (I try not to buy) I throw them in a big pile and rip out a several pages any time I need to start a fire.
Cash Larue I use cardboard egg cartons, drier lint and wax. You can see one section in the middle of the wood. No paper needed. I do use a little bit of kindling but some here don't even use that.
Any non-glossy paper with heavier sheets at the bottom of the kindling pile: junk mail, envelopes, sales circulars, paper grocery bags, cereal boxes, empty flour+sugar bags, pages from old books, phone book pages... Cardboard works but is more difficult to cut up. Nothing with plastic or thick/tacky glue, we remove the plastic window before crumpling envelopes. Thicker paper gets folded (cardboard, cereal boxes...) instead of crumpled.
Cash, my previous home we had a large pine tree I could get too okay, a ton of dead pine cones underneath the tree, anything like mentioned above to get those going worked well for me for 2 decades.
I used to use newspaper, but I've switched to chips from splitting, the smaller the better, with some cheap sawdust & wax firestarter from the grocery store.
I’ve got hundreds of large pine trees on my property. I fill my tandem axle trailer with cones every summer and haul them to the dump. Never thought to burn them. Maybe I’ll start keeping a few around
Wife cleans our family file cabinet out once a hear and I use the papers while they last but more than anything now, I use one of these! Especially if you have some small stuff, don’t have to hold it there very long before you’ve got fire that’ll take. Once I’m using the furnace for the season, the fire rarely goes out, but when using the stove early and late I’m burning season, it usually a fire to start the day and one to end the day so I’m always building fires. Last thing I wanna do when I get home is fart around trying to get something started. I want it burning like now, and this thing doesn’t disappoint
Yes, give it a try, the old tinder dry ones that the blades crack off easily Off Topic, I poured over the RMN, Denver Post and couple other papers that were around back then for genealogy, it was a blast! My Great Great Grandfather came to Denver in 1860, set down roots a couple years later instead of freighting back and forth to the east coast. Him and his wife are in the Colorado Historical Society, Denver Kansas Territory Pioneers. HOLY COW the weather they endured back then with no electricity or modern conveniences !! By the time I was born the original farm was a small fraction of the size he had (odd, several generations of having kids later than most, my daughter included, I mean, what 9 year old child can say her great grandparents were born in 1905 & 1907 ) but if I could tell you about the wonderful times I spent there with my grandparents you'd love it.
^^^^ This Just a propane torch for 20-30 seconds on the edge of a split right in front of the doghouse air, no paper, no kindling takes right off every time, I'm burning pine and spruce mostly, might not work well on hard woods, definitely won't work ifin the split is not dry.
I know it’s just part of life, but I hate to see time passing and eras like that of the newspapers ending We've complicated our lives so much.
There's usually free real estate, among other publications, at most retail stores and pharmacies. Look for them going in/out of stores. Combined with the pine and you'll be all set.
