At home or when camping, fire starters are always handy to have around when building a fire. You can make your own fire starters using lint from your dryer. Collect your lint and break it up into piles of the size you want. You then have two options.

1) You can get some petroleum jelly (Vaseline) and mix a blob into the pile of lint until the mixture holds together. Put it in a container (old film containers work well) until you need to use it.

2) You can melt some paraffin wax on the stove (don't use a cooking pan). Put the piles of lint into small paper cups. Pour some wax into each cup so that the lint is covered and will hold together once the wax cools. One the wax is cool, you can either leave the mixture in the cups for use alter, or you can peel away the cup and put them in the container of your choice.

These fire starters are cheap to make, and they allow you to make make use of something that you would normally just trhow away.