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Are these things just garbage now? I took the boy and the dog for a short hike to a pond that my friends and I spent our childhood building rafts, fires, and catching trout. I grabbed a couple dozen strike anywhere matches tossed them in my matchbox and we headed out. Along the way I had Colin grab some paper birch bark, and some tinder for the fire. When we reached our destination I showed him how to arrange the tinder, twigs, and larger wood . I figured I would show him the trick my dad showed me at his age of lighting a match with your fingernail. Each time I would only get a ships of smoke and a fizzle. After a half dozen matches I figured I would you the striker on my match case. Still no luck. Finally after striking two of the heads together after several attempts bingo. I should have tossed my fire striker in my pocket for backup. But it was such a nice day with plenty of tinder I wasnt worried. The effort was well worth it though.

always good to get em started young!

My guess would be that between meth cookers and tighter shipping regulations, the matches have been reformulated to deal with both of those issues.

I am seeing numerous complaints all over the web about the same thing.

I got some that are all red and are very difficult to light.

He isn't mine but after four years I do my best to make up for the rough life he started off with. His mother was a victim of domestic violence and the only memory he had of his father was of him trying to kick down the bathroom door to get to his mom until the cops came

Kudos to you for taking him out an providing some life lessons which he missed out on early-on.

Good on you Irving! I recently took a friends son camping and taught him how to start a fire with his Christmas gift. He lives in Ca and still asks me when we get to go out and rough it again. Hope I can have a positive effect on his life like you seem to be with the young man in the photo.