OK, I’m first going to start off this post as saying that in the past people have asked if we are one of those ‘Green’ people and I kinda do a weird smile back and say well not so much but possibly a little bit. I mean I am probably more conscience of what we use in our house for chemicals and I guess that I’ve taken a personal global footprints test or two, but green?
So that brings me to todays topic – being green and fire starters. I like fire starters and use them quite a bit when we have campfires. Now I could say that I use them because our firewood is always so wet, but probably what is a better reason is because I don’t really have the patience to wait for the wood to get a good fire going. And if you are wondering just what in the world a fire starter actually is, well it is something that you add to your campfire to not only get the fire started but to use it as a constant fire source until you’ve really got a good fire. It can be about anything and in the past we had used sawdust from my dad’s woodwork shop and some wax. Now this brings me to the green part of this post. Guess what was used today? I’m pretty sure that you didn’t guess dryer lint, but if you did than you guessed right! I try to keep our dryer screen clean in-between loads and for some reason we can accumulate a lot of lint. I keep a trash can close by in our laundry room and well you can guess the rest. So today the kids went and melted down some old wax that I had leftover from candles and also picked up some more old candles from the thrift store for the fire starters that they wanted to make. And if you think our house smells good when I make soap, we’ll I can’d hold a candle to how it smelled this afternoon (pretty good pun huh?) The kids had a kettle on the stove for the afternoon and it was filled to the top with the candles that were melting. 
Now granted I do like using these fire starters and by the looks of it, I think we’ll have enough for about 10 years. Great job kids!! Go Green! 🙂