BULK CANDELS???

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Help almost done with my preps. Still looking for the best price for bulk candels... Any links would be great....

Thanks BLUE

-- Blue (bluefish@thepond.com), November 30, 1999

Answers

Are you driving distance from an IKEA? Box of 40 white for like 8 bucks or so.

www.ikea.com

Also Big Lots can be cheap, but it's hit-or-miss. I get boxes of 10 tapers for a buck there.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), November 30, 1999.


You can find great deals at your local dollar store, also. I've bought candles that burn for days at $1 each. Don't forget matches/lighters.

-- X (X@X.com), November 30, 1999.

What's the burn time on those tapers? I got some candles in a jar (like the religious ones, except without the decorations). Found they would burn for around 160 hours - over 6.5 days continuously burning. Not bad for between $.99 and $1.29. I get them at the grocery store.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 30, 1999.

Are you a member of a local church congregation? Ordinarily, your parish church or community church will burn any number of candles over the course of weeks or months -- but as a matter of aesthetics, they alway replace them before they burn down to nothing. Ask your priest or pastor or minister or mulah or whatever if they have any old candle stubs lying around in the sacristry or wherever. I've been able to get boxes and boex of very usable candle-stubs this way. Free is a very good price, as they say. And if you're into that -- as I am -- the blessing doesn;t hurt any either.

Squirrel Hunter

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), November 30, 1999.


Yep, jar ones burn the slowest in my house too. Certainly the glass blocking drafts alone increases their burn time. I also like the 3 wick candles, which are now $6 in my area, at Value City. Tapers burn the fastest, even with a hurricane globe over them. But tapers are good for reading light, when compared to jar or comparable thick candles I think.

-- Hokie (nn@home.com), November 30, 1999.


I think the ultimate Y2K light would be one of those emergency EXIT signs from a commerical building. Getting one might be a little tricky though...

-- Ocotillo (peeling@out.===), November 30, 1999.

--just saw an ad for "biglots" stores, they have a huge candle sale going on now. I have gotten quite a few good stock up items from those stores--canned and dry food,batteries, oil lamps, tarps, bungees, duct tape, fishing/camping equipment, TP and paper towels, generic cheap bleach, garden tools, etc.

good luck-better skill, and a most peaceful candle, on the window sill!

zoggus

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 30, 1999.


I second that IKEA suggestion. They have great lanterns you can carry around that hold tea-light candles (small but they give off a suprising amount of light). The lanterns are about $7 and a bag of 100 candles is about $8. We bought lots of both.

Btw, lots of other people must be stocking up. I counted at least eight bins full of these bags of candles placed throughout the store and at least three seperate displays of the lanterns, each consisting of hundreds of laterns. Now I *know* they didn't put them there just for me...(Grin)

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), December 01, 1999.


Garage sales. All summer. Saw candles everywhere I went. Finally had to stop buying them. Let someone else stock up.

Also saw oil lamps, warm clothing, camp stoves, etc.

BTW, if you're stocking candles, don't forget matches & FIRE EXTINGUISHERS. $10 a pop; get a bunch.

-- oh yeah it's (gonna@be.fun), December 01, 1999.


Thanks for all the great ideas. I have found all i need. If any one wants some short term fun for a cheep price. Try the GLOW site. They have those "glow sticks" i see kids at concerts with. Bulk sale only .70c and they last 12 hours.

Thanks again for all the help...God Bless

BLUE

-- BLUE (bluefish@thepond.com), December 01, 1999.



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