{"id":2056,"date":"2018-01-10T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2018-01-10T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:03:03","slug":"using-amazon-boxes-instead-newspaper-start-fire-fireplace-wood-stove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/using-amazon-boxes-instead-newspaper-start-fire-fireplace-wood-stove\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Amazon Boxes Instead of Newspaper to Start a Fire in Your Fireplace or Wood Stove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2057 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/H2100-1-CMYK-Copy-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/H2100-1-CMYK-Copy-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/H2100-1-CMYK-Copy-300x300.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kindling a fire used to be done with newspaper. After all, everyone has tons of old newspapers lying around, right? Not anymore! I don&#8217;t, anyway. We stopped taking a daily paper a while ago. You know what we have tons of? Amazon Prime boxes!<\/p>\n<p>I once read an extension service report from &#8230; somewhere &#8230; that claimed that using strips of cardboard was the key to easy fire starting, and it&#8217;s true!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2058\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon_boxes.jpg?resize=359%2C140\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon_boxes.jpg?w=359&amp;ssl=1 359w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon_boxes.jpg?resize=300%2C117&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 85vw, 359px\" \/>I used to use a lot of newspaper and just a little cardboard, but as my house became more and more of a paper-free\u00a0 zone, I stopped hunting around for suitable scraps of newsprint and went to 100% cardboard.<\/p>\n<h2>Building a Fire Without Newspaper<\/h2>\n<p>The task is very simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re going to make the fire the way you always do, but with cardboard instead of paper.<\/li>\n<li>Take an old shipping box (for example, an Amazon Prime box) and rip it into small pieces: say, a couple of inches wide and as long as you like. I just use my bare hands.\u00a0 Ripping the pieces by hand leaves some feathery edges that are easier to light.<\/li>\n<li>Pile in these strips as if they were kindling.<\/li>\n<li>Add some kindling, too, unless the wood is very dry.<\/li>\n<li>You can use some paper, too, if you want to. I&#8217;m doing this less and less.<\/li>\n<li>Light the cardboard with a match. While the cardboard lights more slowly than paper, I&#8217;ve been using book matches with good results. Wooden kitchen matches would work even better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far, the supply of smallish Amazon Prime boxes coming into my house has been more than sufficient for my fire-starting needs.<\/p>\n<p>Used egg cartons that are too broken-down or stained to recycle also make good fire starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindling a fire used to be done with newspaper. After all, everyone has tons of old newspapers lying around, right? Not anymore! I don&#8217;t, anyway. We stopped taking a daily paper a while ago. You know what we have tons of? Amazon Prime boxes! I once read an extension service report from &#8230; somewhere &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/using-amazon-boxes-instead-newspaper-start-fire-fireplace-wood-stove\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Amazon Boxes Instead of Newspaper to Start a Fire in Your Fireplace or Wood Stove&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Using Amazon Boxes Instead of Newspaper to Start a Fire in Your Fireplace or Wood Stove - Robert Plamondon&#039;s Rural Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/using-amazon-boxes-instead-newspaper-start-fire-fireplace-wood-stove\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using Amazon Boxes Instead of Newspaper to Start a Fire in Your Fireplace or Wood Stove - Robert Plamondon&#039;s Rural Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kindling a fire used to be done with newspaper. 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