How to Build Fire With Cotton Balls and Vaseline

Male: Alright, today we’re going to be making some fire story and material. Female: What you bring them for? Male: I don’t know oh yeah, first before you do this ask your wife a permission. Don’t go under the kitchen or in the bathroom or just take her instead of, “Hey, honey can I use some of your cotton balls and Vaseline to build some survival fire starter? She’s going to say like, “No” you might have to rub her a little bit. “Honey, I’ll take you out to dinner.” That’s like or what will I'm going to get Taco Bell, McDonald’s. If you want to use some of her stuff you better borrow something good. “Let me borrow a bracelet” “Yeah” People won’t get sick with you whenever the camera around oh yeah, what we’ve got here. Yeah, just don’t give me flock over pink cotton balls that’s all my wife has got. I’m not buying cotton balls just for this. This is what she uses. We have some Vaseline. I don’t even know why we have Vaseline. Female: Because you’re not going to use that either. Male: Yeah, but without you I’ll use this. Anyway, for on this I’m going to take a cotton ball and dip it in the Vaseline really good, shove it inside there. Female: Would you like a pink cue tip also? Male: No, I don’t need a pink cue tip. Female: Are you sure? Male: I always do. Okay, you should have plenty of these hanging around your house somewhere. Put them in a box you know somebody takes a lot of medicines, have them save your pill bottles, have you save them—anyway, be sure to remove the labels. Sometimes these labels can be a little hard to get off, so full your sink for water take the pill bottle drop it in the water, the water slowly dissolve the label. Get it all of it off of there. Take this kind of nasty I mean like my golly! I can’t believe this kind of stuff I do. Anyway, what we do is we get the Vaseline, get the pill bottle, get the cotton ball and shove it down inside there. Now, this type if pill bottle this size is can be hard to get out because I can’t stick my fingers down inside there. I really recommend that you have a bigger pill bottle I don’t have one on hands. Do not make a mess of your wash cotton balls. Don’t be getting Vaseline all in down inside of there. Okay, do a couple of more of these. This stuff gets all your cues you’re nasty, shove it down real good. This little pill bottles are pink. If I will just really pick some warming up to take out the woods with me I have to use them they’re the one. Another thing we’re going to do is going to is we’re going to bring yeah, something like that kind of pill bottle. Female: Do you have Vaseline? Male: Yeah, something like that. Another thing we’re going to do is we’re going to bring some Purell hand sanitizer. I’ve heard that this stuff is good for starting fires, but so far I’ve not been able to get it a lot. This is 62% alcohol one ounce, so let me get clean up we’re going to go out to the boone fire area we’re going to try to build a fire. Female: A hand sanitizer is also good if you get bit by mosquito and your arms that could use alcohol in it. Male: Yup. You’ve been hiking to the woods for a while it’s time to stop and set up camps. You pull out your pill bottle that we’ve just made, open it up and here’s a kind of gooey. You really want to use a bigger pill bottle than this. Now, what I like to do is whenever I’m practicing my skills for doing something I like to make a little bit hotter than what actually it is. Hotter here so I’ll be better prepared in the woods. Instead of using matches I’m going to use my Swedish fire starter. I always carry matches with me maybe even a big lighter I don’t smoke, but lighter are excellent to carry a Zippo lighter. Even at the bigger even at the big lighter it runs out of fluid you can still use it for the lint steel. Now, let’s see how this is going to work. The last time I did this it did not take me this long. Make sure that cotton balls are open so I’ll get to the dogs over there playing in the bonfire area. Here we go. So, we just learned something. Take your white cotton ball, tear it open it allows and a whole lot better instead of you’re just trying of a lot of Vaseline. Then we’re able to take it. Now, this is a real survival situation we always want to have your wood ready to go. Here are some pine strobes, more pine strobe. Okay, now let’s do the —another we’ve got that going. What we have here is the Purell hand cleaner. It’s 62% alcohol. Let’s try this. See if it’s going to light by itself. We almost lit here it goes just put in a clear flame you can’t hardly see it. Here we go, so yes the Purell hand cleaner 62% alcohol works pretty good. Imagine if I will soak that cotton ball in it. Let’s go to burn pretty good but it put a clear flame I couldn’t really see when it lit. Okay, there you go as to the examples of how to start the fire with hand cleaner, Vaseline and cotton balls. Thank you for time.