Buy a bunch of regular steal wool - makes a great fire starter.......
Yup it is and so is dryer lint ~grin~
Oh another thing that some of the folks in my living history club does is really nifty ~
They take one of those paper mache egg cartons and put a little bit of spanish moss ( saw dust would work as well ) and pour a weensy bit of parafin into each section of the egg carton . Then when they need to use one to start one of their camp fires, they just break or rip or cut one of the sections off and there ya go.
I tried this once and put a single match in the moss and then poured a weensy bit of parafin in the individual egg hole. Now that was a much better option than what they did.
But we keep using the mache egg cartons to store our hens eggs in ......
I’ll have to check at egg carton . com to see if they have the paper mache cartons. I know they do have the foam ones and so does Rural King , which is like a TSC store.