Firestarter fragrance

[primsong]

Finally got around to restocking my home-made firestarters this morning, which mostly involves hunting through rooms and cupboards to track down all the melted little candle stubs at the bottoms of various votive holders, etc. Add any broken tapers, the very last of a bottled kitchen candle and melt over low heat until kitchen becomes lovely and fragrant with all those nice-scented waxes warming in a pan. Mmm.

I saved up a small number of paper egg cartons, whacked into two-egg-cup chunks, to pour the wax over. They work great, and you can even add chunks of dryer lint or a small pinecone to each cup if you want. Pretty straightforward way to use up old candles, but thought I'd share in case anyone hadn't run across it yet.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

What a nifty idea! Pity I don't light fires very often (apart from gas fires).

[primsong]

We have two fireplaces, one for regular wood, one with a gas insert so I only bother with the 'real thing' when my "I should be saving money" guilt outweighs the convenience. ;-) One nice thing about this is it's using up stuff that would otherwise just be thrown out, which is always a happy thing.