Is newspaper the best kind of paper to use when starting a fire? How abot paper bags or paper from my laser printer? Any negatives to using these?
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Mass. Wine Guy said:Is newspaper the best kind of paper to use when starting a fire? How abot paper bags or paper from my laser printer? Any negatives to using these?
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cmonSTART said:Well, newspaper burns best, but I have to admit my stove is sort of my document shredder.
Mass. Wine Guy said:Is newspaper the best kind of paper to use when starting a fire? How abot paper bags or paper from my laser printer? Any negatives to using these?
Thank you.
BrotherBart said:cmonSTART said:Well, newspaper burns best, but I have to admit my stove is sort of my document shredder.
Yeah I kinda miss my old stove. I even burned some old clothes in it one time. %-P
CrawfordCentury said:BrotherBart said:cmonSTART said:Well, newspaper burns best, but I have to admit my stove is sort of my document shredder.
Yeah I kinda miss my old stove. I even burned some old clothes in it one time. %-P
There's a guy a couple towns over from me that does that. Says it's how he keeps his stovepipe clean.
He's running some kinda soc. sec. or unemployment scam. Don't know the details, but he claims to be either gay or straight, alternating between the two when his bennies run out. So when Paul stops getting a check, he re-files under Paula and gets a check under that identity.
And he dresses to fit the part. Paul wears mens clothes. "Paula" wears womens clothes.
Never does laundry. S/he goes to the thrift store when they're doing the fill-a-bag-for-a-dollar day. Buys his wardrobe a month in advance for peanuts. Not worth it to him/her to spend $10 at the coin-op.
As far as the original inquiry is concerned, I use a lot of newsprint to get a blaze going. Plain brown paper bags are great.
Glossy magazines are no good.
Also - late xmas time advice - do NOT burn wrapping paper in your stove. There's the risk that the updraft will sweep a flaming piece right up the flue and out the chimney. If there's any build up, you could get a chimney fire. Or else, it might fly right out the chimney and start a forest fire somewhere down wind.
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