candles?

I like floating candles around the holidays.. on a table as a centerpiece. I use them when I have my own place to add a little something pretty in my living room and dining room. I don't use them here, considering I live with my boyfriend and his parents and we don't have the room to spread out that much.

Thanks for the best response thumper11! Really appreciated, like a candle's scent...makes me smile! I actually been planning this, to buy some new candles and bring it to my bf's house. Since you mentioned about eliminating bad odors in a room. He's smoking and i want to smell some sweet good scents after him smoking. I'll put one in the bathroom and one in the living room. I know he'll like it! Thanks again!!

That's pretty much me... I use them for decorations and for scent. I usually light them before company comes over or something like that, just so that if there is any bad smell in my home, that I don't notice, but someone else would, it is covered up pretty well. My mom has an odor eliminator candle that works wonders for things like that! She uses them in the motel rooms when someone has smoked in the room or a pet has been there, and you'd never know the difference after that candle has burned in there for a few hours.

You might want to try candleberry odor eliminator... I don't know what store lines sell them.. I would recommend looking it up online. They are really good at getting all kinds of odors out.

I can understand the cost. The last 2 that I have were gifts for my birthday from my mom. You can buy some votives.... They are a smaller version of the larger candles and they are usually quite a bit cheaper. They should still smell the same if you get a quality brand, like candleberry, yankee candles, woodwick, and various others. The smell also should not be overwhelming if you burn them in a more open ares and don't burn them for more than an hour or so at a time. Plus.. you can save the wax and use a tart burned or wax burner and it will get the same effect, but with out a flame. This helps you burn them more slowly, thus making it last longer.

What exactly are votives. I will definitely follow your suggestion and see if I can find a smaller version just to know the fragrance. I burn incense sticks instead for a pleasent odour. They come much much cheaper. Thanks anyway. Ill definitely try them out.

i dont know what kind of waxes mine r. i dont think i know the difference. i usually buy the small tea light white ones and different scented oils for smell. but i have seen all kinds of cool scented and large candles of different colors in stores. i just didnt pay attention what kind of wax they were. maybe next time i go to a store, i should buy one of each just to compare and see if i prefer one or the other.

That's a good idea.... The soy bean oil ones seem to make a bigger mess.... I don't know.. Maybe it just seems that way. Either one makes a mess if they get on your furniture..... I guess the wax is just easier to clean up though.

i just don't like the soy bean oil ones as much.... i don't know why..... i like traditional wax candles the best. Maybe it's just the brands that I've tried.. I guess I need to try a new brand.

I would open a window when you were planning to burn them, so that the smell isn't as strong, or I would burn them in a different room or a more open room. I have this problem sometimes and depending on where I'm at, those are my ways of dealing with it and they seem to work pretty well.

thank u for the tips,i will try tonight

That's pretty neat... Thank you

Thanks yar...for your comment..:)

Candles are beautiful and very fun to try different scents and scent combination. The ones that my mom has in her shop are the ones that she burns at home and I think that is why I like them so much. I do buy my own occasionally from a different store, but those are still my favorites.

Yea me too. The ones that I have been burning are soy bean oil candles. I'm not as fond of the oil ones as I am traditional wax candles. I don't know.. I guess I just like the traditional candles.

I have actually forgot mine a few times, but I always burn ones in glass jars, so they just burnt out. It was lucky actually. Now, if I leave, I check every room of the house....

Yes... candlelight is so pretty. It's calming, and romantic. I like candlelight, but not all of the time.

true, but they do make long burning candles and such.... those seem to last longer.

Yes I agree completely. I'm not a mom, but If I have had a busy day and a lot of stress, coming home and lighting candles and just relaxing is always the best thing that I can do to unwind.

I don't usually burn the candles for the light, I burn them for the scent. I do use them to relax me sometimes, but I rely more on the scent of them than the light.

Try the candleberyy sugar cookie ones... They are great and they smell really yummy while burning.

that's the way that i am, but i love the candleberry sugar cookie ones.. You should try those..... I highly recommend those.. if you like to smell cookies baking....

Some smells aggravate me too, I have to be selective with the scents and how strong certain candles are. If I get a strong one, I'll usually give it to a friend or I'll burn it in a room where I don't usually go, to get the smell circulating..... I can deal with the candleberry ones, even though they don't loose any of their scent over time, it's not an overbearing scent, so it's not too bad.

Thank you for the response. I am looking to try different candles....

I can't handle some of them that knock you down they are so strong. The ones that I like have good smells, that are not strong, but stay just as strong as the first time that they are lit.

I like just plain vanilla ones too, but the sugar cookie has to be my favorite. It makes me wanna eat cookies though......

Have you tried candle warmers or burners? They help you enjoy the candle scent with out a flame. If you like candles, but just don't like the risk of fire, try a candle warmer. It's kind of like a hot plate that you sit the candle on and it just gets warm enough to melt the wax and produce the scent, but there is no flame, thus there is less risk of fire.