Wax Philosophical

I love candlelight. Do you?

What about when the night is done, and you're left with burned-down stubs of wax, the wicks all too low to burn again?

If you know you're going to burn new candles all the way down to their used-up ends, you can put a little water in each glass container, and the wax won't stick to the sides- easy clean up after a long night and a great party.

But what if you're like me, and you only burn them a few hours at a time, over and over again? By the time I'm ready to change them, that wax is stuck to the sides all the way down the votive holder- from several nights of just a little burn.

Talk about a waxy situation. How do you clean it up? Easy. I realize many of you already know about this, but, there was a time when I didn't...so maybe you don't- though you're all much sharper than me.

Throw them in your freezer. Let them get chummy with the blueberries and the beef for an hour or so. Let them get reeealy cold.

brrr...

Invert.

KICHOW!
Need I say more?
Now you can save yourself some time and use it for better purposes- like kissin' your husband, chasin' your kids, or cleaning your house.... ahem. Or reading a book.

If you want to be really economical, cheap, or un-wasterly, you can break the wax away from the old wicks, melt it down, and fill it into a glass votive holder and make a whole new candle out of it, instead of throwing it in the trash. You can get more wicks etc. at a craft store. It's really easy. Make sure you pick up yourself some gold star stickers while you're at it, and give yourself one.

I threw my stubs in the trash.