Dinner Candles?

[Ultramatic]

 

 

I'm finally finishing my supply of dinner candles. I usually bought them at IKEA, but they are no longer available. In fact, IKEA Brooklyn seems to be offering a lot less of everything as of late.

 

I have been looking online and I was surprised on how much they have risen in price. I was looking for deep orange colored tapers and boxes of 12 are running at $50. Have I missed something? Is there some sort of shortage?

 

[combo52]

Dinner Candles

Go to estate sales in nice neighborhoods you can get boxes of them for very little money.

 

Do be careful using candles too much as they put off a lot of serious pollution in the house as well as the damage they do to your furnishings, I do use them at times however.

 

John L.

 

[dometicsavant]

Check out target and Walmart (online first) maybe even some party stores like party city (Halloween time)

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have battery operated candles for the ambience.  I also still have Ronson butane candles.

 

[xraytech]

I have tons of those candles from my late aunts flower shop.
I have lots of ivory, white, and red. Have some burnt orange, yellow, pink, and purple

 

[vacerator]

Ours are

battery lit. I don't need to clean wax off our Waterford seahorse candle holders. They were a gift from our neighbor a couple Christmases ago for me taking care of their dog.

 

[Ultramatic]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

 

 

Found them at Amazon!

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Amazon.com

 

[tomturbomatic]

Where else?

 

[ken]

Do all candles create indoor pollution? Been aware that the scented ones do because of the chemicals used but didn't think plain, unscented ones were harmful.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

Well, I think we produce far more indoor pollution (let your imagination run wild there).

 

[combo52]

Do All Candels Produce Pollution ?

Well only if you light them, LOL

But yes anytime you burn something there are combustion byproducts, and it is far worse when burning solid things like, Wax, Cigarettes, incense, wood, oil lamps, usually burning gases like natural gas is less polluting but there are still harmful byproducts to worry about.

Scented or unscented would likely make little or no difference.

John L.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Have you read about the restorations and renovations done to buildings and art works in Europe where centuries of candle smoke made art and original wall colors almost unrecognizable due to darkening?

 

[circlew]

One of my friends owns a rental property. The former tenant burned candles frequently, and when they moved out, the ceilings and upper walls were coated with oily soot. They had a restoration company, (either Servpro or Servicemaster) clean the whole house, which was rather expensive.

 

[combo52]

Pollution [ gas ] from humans

Does not harm your homes walls and cause lung cancer in humans.

John L.

 

[ken]

And years ago the options for light were candles, oil lamps or gas lamps. Think what an innovation electric lighting was.

 

[searsbest]

Dinner candles

I buy a lot of my candles at thrift stores, I also have a set of Ronson butane candles, Nothing like having little butane rockets on the table at dinner.. lol

 

[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Ah...if only life were so simple that candles, incense and natural gas were the main things to be concerned about.</span>

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[tomturbomatic]

Houses were not built as tight in the days of using more combustion products in the home either so more of the pollutants escaped. As for pollution from combustion, even so called "clean" forms, I still remember how the silver had to be polished less frequently when we switched from a gas stove to the electric one.

 

[kate1]

When I stopped using candles in the house it made a difference in my children’s asthma, and I didn’t use them all that frequently to begin with. Birthday candles are about all I use now. As for gas appliances, I love them for numerous reasons but they MUST be vented properly. I shudder every time I see a gas stove without a range hood above it, not that a range hood even means much since so many nowadays aren’t even vented to the outside (at least where I live). Ideally, you would run the hood fan every time you cook too. You should also have CO detectors all throughout your house if you have any gas appliances anywhere.