re: fire starters, good recipe bzang! I am working at useing only what I already have in so many areas! I have a BALE of pine sawdust shavings left from my little hens, a huge jug of vasiline left from when radiation burned me, extra large cotton balls from when I did my nails.
First I started cutting junk mail envelopes in 1/2 and stuffing with my mix, but we don't get much paper mail at all any more, so then I tried the coffee filters, dried after use but felt like my MIL so only did a couple batches of those,, so I ordered 500 waxy cookie envelopes from Amazon going forward. All just ideas picked up from the web.
If we were outdoor campers I think your recipe would be super.
today I resewed a chewed dog leash
and made another set of coasters to have on hand.