I pretty much have stopped using stick matches. The vast VAST majority of the time I use either a sparker or a butane lighter.

My Coleman propane lantern has a peizo-sparker on-board. I think my propane stove does too (I don't use it much - prefer Coleman fuel for stoves). My older Coleman liquid fuel stove and my MSR backpacking stoves are lit using either a sparker or a butane lighter.

The only place I still find them non-replacable (can't find anything else that will work) is to light my older Coleman liquid fuel lantern. It's globe only has a small hole through which a stick match is the only thing that will fit.

I tried installing one of Coughlan's lantern sparker devices, but it won't fit on the globe of my paticular model. I assume it fits OK on other (unknown) models.

Ken K.