Homemade Fire Starters from Waste Paper

If you are anything like me you get quite a bit of paper delivered to you through the mail.  All that junk mail, magazine subscriptions and useless ads for things you should never by.  If you are lucky you would be able to recycle all that paper so it can be turned into something else down the line.  However you may live in an area that doesn’t do paper recycling so that really leaves you with the option of throwing it in the trash.  But if you are actually reading this article on this website then you are probably like me and you hate throwing things away that could have other potential uses.  One of the best uses I have found for that waste paper is turning it into long lasting fire starters.  Now I am sure you already know that paper burns really easily but it also burns really quick which can sometimes hinder how well it performs as a fire starter.  Keeping lose paper around can also take up a lot of space that could be better used for other things.  So any easy way to get around these dual problems is to turn all that extra waste paper in paper mache fire starters.  This is really easy to do but it does take some time and just a few things to make the process easier. 
Materials needed,
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• Waste paper
• Drill
• Drill Bits
• 2 five gallon buckets
• Rocks

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