Disaster has struck and your world is temporarily turned upside down-- you now need alternative ways to do things. Do you know ways to start a fire without matches or a lighter? Here are just a few ideas:

• Flint and steel
• Flint stone and knife
• Magnesium and knife
• Metal match

• Solar
• Magnifying glass 
• Eyeglasses
• Binoculars, scopes, or camera lens
• Molded ice-- Make a lens in your hands
• Chocolate polished soda can bottom to reflect and concentrate sunlight
• Reflector of broken flashlight or car headlight

• Friction
• Hand drill-- Stick spun between the hands on flat wood plank
• Bow-- Stick spin powered by bow made with string or shoe laces on flat wood plank
• Plough-- Stick rubbed back and forth on a flat wood plank with a groove in it

• Electricity
• 9 volt battery and steel wool
• Broken flashlight bulb
• Car or other vehicle battery

You will need some sort of tinder or accelerant-- here are some ideas:

• Dried grass or moss
• Dried bark
• Pine needles
• Cattails
• Wood shavings
• Twigs
• Paper
• Twine or rope fibers
• Cloth fibers
• Gas or fuel
• Cotton balls with petroleum jelly
• High proof alcohol

What other ideas do you have?

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DDFD believes that self reliance and self sufficiency are the roads to individual freedom.  He is dedicated to living a quality life through frugality, personal growth and productivity, and defensive entrepreneurship.  He also enjoys cooking from scratch and fishing.