'Prepper' Combustibles In My Garage

Junk like plastic drinking straws, cotton-wool, body-filler-bog, petroleum jelly, brake fluid, pool chlorine, old bike inner tubes, Bic lighters, Canola cooking oil, 1/4 inch brass rod, old knives, para-cord, baked-beans(?) 😃 engine oil .. all sorts of useful crap clutters MY garage* - how about yours?

- Here's today's starter question for 10 points: Why don't the oil giants squirt their oil into containers that are specifically designed (& colored red ) - to be re-used as spare FUEL CONTAINERS after you've changed your oil - instead of making more plastic crap to be dumped?

Anyway - I won't disclose what can be done with plastic straws, "bog", pool chlorine, & brake fluid - but revolver shooters can use fat straws to carry .22" R/F rounds stacked ready for re-loading - and weight aware outdoorsy types can pack their fire-lighting starters into straws as here ..

The Mountain Guerrilla says:
"One of the best tinders available, as most people know, is petroleum jelly on cotton balls. What Alan did was take those cotton balls, and shove them into a length of plastic drinking straw, then heat sealed the ends closed. So, in a piece of straw about an inch long, you’ve got enough tinder to reliably start a decent fire, and the plastic in the straw means it burns slightly hotter and slightly longer, than just the cotton ball and petroleum jelly combination. Best of all, I can carry four or five of those in my wallet, and forget they are there. Three drinking straws, from a drive-through soda, and you’ve got enough to start a fire every day for a month or more. That’s a month of fires for basically less than a dollar (I can buy a 100 count of cotton balls at the Dollar Store for $1, and I can buy a tub of petroleum jelly, at the same store, for another $1. Hell, if I paid another dollar, for a pack of 100 straws, and divvied it up, I BET I could get a year’s worth of tinder for $3. In fact, I may try that!), and it will take up less room in your pack than most other types of tinder would for a week’s worth of fires"

https://mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/the-more-you-know-the-less-you-need-a-personal-example-of/

- Anyone who hand-loads pistol ammo will know what a brass rod is used for .. and canola (rape-seed) cooking oil is what much expensive gun oil starts as 😙 before they package it for sale as wonder-person-miracle gun lubricant.

.. And - like the 'm.g'-man says - why buy an expensive water bottle when a used "soda" bottle does exactly the same job?

You know, - the Marketing People (bums paid to lie) have got a lot to answer-for when they arrive up at the "Pearly Gates"  ... ah but I forgot that it was them that invented the pearly gates in the first place ..

But what would I know - a 75 year-old still with teen-age spots? .. there's one born every minute,

Marty K.
* Judging from UK TV .. house-owners there have converted all their garages into extra bedrooms.