- Bludgeon the wax into smaller workable pieces.
- This proved to be incredibly difficult with a knife and saw.
- My next plan is to beat upon it with a hatchet or hammer.
- On edit: I made these later using a screw driver and hammer to quickly and easily break up the wax.
- On edit: I made these later using a screw driver and hammer to quickly and easily break up the wax.
- Fill the egg carton/cupcake liners with cedar bedding
- Optionally also layer in bits of dryer lint (it’s an easy burn to get these going).>
- Melt the wax in the pan
- Be aware, the longer you leave the melted wax in the pan/on the stove, the hotter it gets – it sort of boiled when I poured it in the next step
- Get it melted and then work it right away
- Pour some wax over the cedar bedding
- You basically need just enough to hold the firestarter together
- You’re not making a candle- don’t get nutty with the amount of wax you use (like I did!)
- After cooling, cut into pieces
- Put it outside/in the fridge to cool
- I used my grill and just set it inside until it cooled down overnight
- A bread knife worked great for cutting, the wife wasn’t pleased about the residue left on it
Protecting Your RV Systems
Your RV is parked in the campground in a beautiful national park, miles and miles from the nearest town. You and your family are out for a long hike. The kids are running ahead, and suddenly one of them takes a tumble over a tree root. Nothing major, but there’s a scraped knee and a sore ankle. And of course, one of the other kids freaks out at the sight of blood. Everyone seems to be fine. The nearest urgent care is an hour away, and you’d rather not pack up the rig and drive there for something minor. What if you had a simple, natural way to help your child feel better right where you are, without needing to find a clinic or pharmacy to use while on the way to the hospital for more serious issues? That’s where homeopathy comes in. Homeopathy is a natural system of health and wellness care that works with your body’s innate ability to heal and return to balance. It can be used alongside other natural modalities like herbs, essential oils, or even conventional pharmaceuticals. To define homeopathy, it’s easier to start with what it is not. Homeopathy is not home remedies, not herbs, not vitamins or supplements, and not a term for general natural health modalities. It’s based on the principle of similimum or, as Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, said, “like cures like.” In other words, a substance that could cause certain symptoms in its gross natural form can, when prepared in a highly diluted and potentized form, nudge the body back to homeostasis. I learned about homeopathy well over ten years ago, and by the time my family was RVing full time, it had already become our preferred way to care for our health and wellness, with other natural options sprinkled in as needed.
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