What makes a good tinder bundle for starting a fire?

Make sure that whatever you use for a tinder bundle that it is really dry, and shredded into really fine fibers.

• Cotton balls
• Cotton balls with Vaseline
• Cotton balls with petroleum jelly
• Cotton balls with melted bees wax.
• Char cloth
• Shredded paper 
• WetFire
• Tinder Quik

• Zippo Waxed Tinder Sticks

Natural tinder bundles:

• Fern that's been dried up makes a great tinder bundle. If you get a coal even close to the dried up fern, it will fire up super fast.
• Lichen pulled off a tree (a.ka. OLD MAN'S BEARD), you can dry it out by putting it inside your clothing (keep fluffy).
• Tinder fungus
• Tall Dried grass
• Dried pine needles
• Birch bark shavings - will catch fire even when wet.
• Conifir resin
• Spruce tree needles
• American Beech tree leaves: These trees hold onto their dried, brownish yellow leaves through the winter.
• Cedar bark. When scraped with the blade of a knife it yields a very fine combustible material.
• Cattail heads. Scrape with knife blade to make a finer tinder.
• Dried and dessicated milkweed pods. These can ignite like a dry cotton ball and are a great to use.
• Inner bark of cottonwood
• Sagebrush bark
• Coconut husks