Kiss Me, I'm Irate

Yes, let’s start this with an advertisement.

Really though, this isn’t.  I only mention the brands to differentiate these things.

It’s like this little ball of wax on this funky little metal stand thing, with a wick sticking up the middle.  It goes in a special holder that amounts to a very shallow bowl, but with this little bump in the middle that has a magnet in it.

You put little candle on stand thing on the bump in the middle and light the wick.  Candle proceeds to melt into a pool of wax in the holder.  This pretty much amounts to turning a candle the size of a tea-light into a pool of wax the size of that found in a jar candle.  The packaging has some stuff about how this dissipates the scent or whatever, and oddly enough it actually does work.  More surface area, more evaporation.  Or something.

As the wax remaining on the stand thing melts, the wick continues to burn even after it’s surrounded by a couple of metal tines and the bottom of the wick is about a quarter inch above the liquid wax.  There are these little slits in the side of the stand that let it suck up the wax using capillary action.  It’s kind of a nifty design, and I like that.

Also I like that the Oust ones (”odor neutralizing”) actually do work rather well, which was kind of unexpected.  I’d expect the Glade and whatever other brand ones work fine as well, it’s pretty hard to screw up a scented candle.

Starting in the next day or so, I’m going to start a series of posts on my blog about things I like, things I don’t hate, and occasionally things I do hate.  Most of the latter will follow posts in one of the other categories and will amount to caveats.

This series, unwittingly inspired by a good friend who may never know how helpful she’s been, is part self discovery and part self therapy.  I’m trying to be a happier person, or more optimistic, or something.  Maybe I’ll find a better definition as all this goes on.

If anyone should ever direct their attention to these, may they be as inspiring for you as I hope they’ll be for me.