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<blockquote data-quote="saltbranch" data-source="post: 693663" data-attributes="member: 13181"><p>Its a good fire starter for the fireplace. Take a wad of kleenex or a paper towl, dredge in vaseline bottle/can, place under stack of fire wood and light the vaseline. It will burn long enough and hot enough to catch green mesquite on fire.</p><p></p><p>I was in line behind this older lady(late 60's or better) @ Walmart, she had about 10 canisters of Vaseline in her cart, she must have caught me looking....she asked me, bet your wondering about all the vaseline. Oh, no I said...she proceeded to tell me the fire starter trick. I kind of blew it off. Later in the year during deer season, we got to the ranch/camp house. We were out of propane for the heaters and it was Cold, I went and gathered up some mesquite for the fireplace. Had 1 old feed bag( no other paper in sight) to use to try and get a fire going, no luck. I would have paid 20.00 for bottle of lighter fluid at that point. Then I remembered the older lady @ Walmart. My wife had one those purse kleenex packs with her and in the medicine cabinet in the B/R there was an old jar of vaseline. Must have been 1 my grandmother bought, cuz the label was faded out and she passed about 10 yrs ago. I did as I was told by the lady @ walmart and it worked! She saved our southends from freezing, atleast saved me from having to drive 25 miles to nearest store for lighter fluid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saltbranch, post: 693663, member: 13181"] Its a good fire starter for the fireplace. Take a wad of kleenex or a paper towl, dredge in vaseline bottle/can, place under stack of fire wood and light the vaseline. It will burn long enough and hot enough to catch green mesquite on fire. I was in line behind this older lady(late 60's or better) @ Walmart, she had about 10 canisters of Vaseline in her cart, she must have caught me looking....she asked me, bet your wondering about all the vaseline. Oh, no I said...she proceeded to tell me the fire starter trick. I kind of blew it off. Later in the year during deer season, we got to the ranch/camp house. We were out of propane for the heaters and it was Cold, I went and gathered up some mesquite for the fireplace. Had 1 old feed bag( no other paper in sight) to use to try and get a fire going, no luck. I would have paid 20.00 for bottle of lighter fluid at that point. Then I remembered the older lady @ Walmart. My wife had one those purse kleenex packs with her and in the medicine cabinet in the B/R there was an old jar of vaseline. Must have been 1 my grandmother bought, cuz the label was faded out and she passed about 10 yrs ago. I did as I was told by the lady @ walmart and it worked! She saved our southends from freezing, atleast saved me from having to drive 25 miles to nearest store for lighter fluid. [/QUOTE]
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