DIY Life

Should you ever catch yourself out in the wilderness with some aluminum foil and a little vaseline for those chapped lips, rest assured in the knowledge that you too could create a small fire for warmth or for creating a larger fire for cooking.

Lighters may fail, matches may become wet, but if you wrap up some cotton balls soaked in petroleum jelly an wrap a few of those combos in some smaller pieces of aluminum foil, that may be the best thing you can do for the moment when you need to create a fire but don't have an easy combustion source.

As long as you have a waterproof flint (like the keychain kind you'll find in survival stores), you should be good to go after following the directions here. This is a must for any backpacker's survival mainstay or for those who like to camp way away from civilization -- or must travel through dangerous parts or roads of Mother Nature. John Rambo would be proud.