re: How do you light your wood fireplace?

Life hack:
Have a Ziploc bag next to the dryer and collect the lint in it. Use the lint as starter. It doesn’t take much.

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I have a gas starter. It's almost cheating.

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It is.

The house I grew up didn’t have a gas starter fireplace. Actually didn’t have any central a/c or heat. We had 2 floor furnaces and the fireplace.

We used newspaper and usually had those starter log things, but always kept a little stack of super dry wood from the previous year for when we were in a pinch.

I actually don’t miss much about my teens, but I do miss cold winter days when nothing was going on at the farm and me, dad, and my brother would be hunting morning and afternoons, then just watching football or the hunting channel and keeping the fire going and hanging out with each other.

Floor furnaces are the bomb by the way. Hang your clothes up over them early in the morning while in the shower and get out to put warm clothes on before heading out.

cardboard boxes

Gas, newspaper, and matches.

Pine cones and move the splintered side of wood facing down. Pines cones are the best free fire starter I have ever found.

Pine knots are too difficult to find. I can walk in my back yard and collect all the fire starter I need for a month in about 5 minutes.

With the gas starter.

Wax paper. It’s basically oil in paper form. It’s the one camping trick I have up my sleeve. Bring a bunch of folded up wax paper. Takes up no space, weighs nothing, doesn’t get wet, starts a fire every damn time.

But in my actual fireplace I use the gas starter because I’m not poor.

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Pine liter knot

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Pine liter. Gee Jr has a healthy business selling liter we find in the hunting club

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Are y’all trying to say “litter” or “lighter?” What the hell is liter?

Put some lump charcoal in and light it with wax wood wool. Then toss some logs on and bobs your uncle.