As we’ve started planning some of our outdoor adventures for the year, we’re gearing up our gear, too. For our outdoor fire place and for camping, we load up a mason jar with wooden matches. We close the jar with an air tight lid. We attach a piece of fine sand paper to the top of the lid so we can strike our matches right on the lid and light a fire anywhere. Remember that all matches are not created equally, so make sure to use “strike anywhere” matches for this hack!
Light a Fire Anywhere
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Sand paper should to the inside. The striking patch cut from the kitchen match box works best. Mason jars are glass, making them heavy, cumbersome, and a disaster waiting to happen when they break. Plastic pill bottles are best being light weight, tough and a bicycle tube cut in the diameter of the inside of the lid will make it waterproof. . For $3 a water proof match case is well worth it. You are going for whatever is already in the home though, aren’t you?
Flint and Tinder!