Been there, seen 'em. She has billions (almost) and they all show evidence of use or ready-to-use/nearby storage. As I recall, most are pretty fat/big/chunky. Sized for the need, clearly.

Somebody at Mudcat always needs a little *ucking up, so it's a good thing she has so many. Her teenlings seem to take a good lesson from this approach to #$@!-, too.

Ours are used ivory or white or cream pillars, leftover from Christmas decor at church. After a few years' re-use, they are too short to show well in the hurricane glasses that cover them, or to peek above the garland of green around the base. Or the colors get a little funky with age. In our old country house, tho, they're great when the power goes out, electric or otherwise. I dunno if we have reduced any #$@!-, but we have kept from bumping into things in whatever darkness may be happening. Some of 'em smell nice, too.

I had to trim mine because they had not been brought up right. Apparently, to make sure a new candle always burns with the right amount of melted wax in the pool, yer sposed to trim the wick, light them, and let them burn a half hour, and after that they "always burn right." Ours had melted way-deep wells, and the candles would go out. So I had to pare off a couple of inches cuz the wicks were drowning.

To do this, light the candle, and pare down in a spiral a little at a time as the flame softens the wax, until the well is gone entirely. Trim the wick and let it burn a half hour. No problems since then. It quickly forms a new well that WORKS and makes that pretty glow. No more drowned wicks.

~Susan