It's WISE to DIY: Thrify Ideas for the Do-It-Yourselfer

Which Of These Random Hacks Will Make YOUR Life Easier?

7.  Instant camping firestarters

An empty toilet paper roll and some lint from the dryer makes a perfect fire-starter!  Save your dryer lint for a few weeks before a camping trip and make a bunch of these.  They weigh almost nothing and will make your campfires SO easy!

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8.  Prep your paint with foil

Too lazy to remove EVERYTHING before you roll out that wall?Aluminum foil is the prefect tool to prep a paint job.  You can really get detailed with all the pieces that you don’t want to unscrew.

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Do you have a hack that should be added to this list?  By all means, tell us about it!

Thank you to dumpaday for these awesome and random hacks!


41 Comments

  1. Cassy Irene says:

    Pretty good stuff, I already do a couple, my fav is the magazine holder 🙂

  2. CARLOTTIA says:

    I TEAR THE TOPS OFF OF EGG CARTONS AND USE THE BOTTEM TO PUT JEWERLY IN

  3. Amazon Alta says:

    i thought i will find some trick of toilet paper roll. but nothing in it what i need , someone make joke i guess

  4. Tammy Lewis says:

    I tried the toliet paper roll fire starter,didn’t work so well

  5. Paper towel roll is better, dryer lint and used dryer sheets. Stuff it full a good fire starter.

  6. I’ve used the toilet paper roll hack for several years now. Lint works good but dryer sheet don’t burn they melt. If I’m in a hurry sometimes I dampen lint and paper with alcohol. They do work.

  7. Rubber band on stripped screw did not work for me!

  8. Penny Brom says:

    I hate centrylink

  9. I used the dryer lint hack in the fireplace. Worked great

  10. Crystal Saintsing Pluck great camping ideas

  11. Becky Prince says:

    Great fire starter

  12. June Whipple says:

    Sherri Ryan number 4 & 7 for you durning camping.

  13. Christine Bowman, these hacks are for you, especially the last one.

  14. I didn’t find any good ideas here.

  15. Been doing this for years!!!!!

  16. Unused coffee filters work great for starting a fire also

  17. Doesn’t work for me either.

  18. I use the dryer lint tube idea but go one step further, after using a scent type cube in warmer that isn’t giving off any good smells I set the open ends of tube in melted wax to coat the lint that seals it and then the lint doesn’t come out and you can burn the whole tube from middle to start fire.

  19. Mike Healy Lisa Healbone Healy

  20. Robin Sly says:

    Dale Sly good boyscout trick.

  21. We have a backyard fire pit – will give the lint-toilet paper roll a try.

  22. Pat Hylton says:

    Suzanne: check out #4,6,7

  23. Put Vaseline on the lint for fuel

  24. Jan LeBrun says:

    Janet LeBrun-Gunderson Jamie Pepper

  25. Started doing this years ago

  26. I use these to start a fire for fall time

  27. Camp fire starter, we do it always, fire pit.

  28. Amy Benscoter check out #7

  29. June Jasen says:

    Emily Desai Ankur Desai #7

  30. Jill Tatum says:

    Not sure what the point is of putting the box of Kleenex into another container.

  31. wow Trisha Oursler Melissa Krien

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