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VIDEO: How to Make a Candle Out of a Crayon

VIDEO: How to Make a Candle Out of a Crayon

A candle out of a crayon? It’s not as silly as it sounds.

As we all know, being a prepper is a great way to keep your mind sharp. Preppers look at the world in a different way. What might be an ordinary, everyday object for everyone else is a useful survival tool for us. Everything has a purpose, and for a prepper, everything has several purposes — you just have to get creative.

The video below from one of your favorite YouTubers, the Crazy Russian Hacker, demonstrates how you can make a candle out of an ordinary crayon. This is a great lifehack for when you find yourself in a power outage without a flashlight or other alternative source of light.

Check it out, and feel free to share your own “life hacks” in the comments!

How to Make a Candle Out of a Crayon

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