Recycling Candle Containers and Jars
Sunday October 19, 2008
My friend Peggy and her husband Gene are very frugal folks. They work hard, but live simply and happily, with great respect for the earth and green-living. Peggy called me the other day to say that a friend of theirs had asked them if they knew anyone who would be interested in a couple dozen used candle containers. Their friend had been buying and using some great high-end (Voluspa mostly) candles - and not throwing the used containers away. She'd amassed about 2 dozen of them and wanted to pass them on. "Sure!" I said, and I soon had two boxes full of great glass and ceramic candle containers of all sizes and shapes. Not only am I going to be able to try out some new container candle sizes, but in recycling these containers, I feel like I'm doing my part to help lessen our impact on the earth. Plus, I'm going to get to give both Peggy and Gene, and their friend, some of my handmade candles, and prove to them that handmade/homemade candles can be every bit as good as those posh high-end types!
Comments
Great idea–I often see these thrown away by friends and take them to make my own candles in. Glad someone else has the same idea.
jh
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I just found this site and look forward to all the insights and experiences your members have to write about. I too have collected candle containers. I don’t like to throw them away. They are perfectly useful–one is a flower vase and the others are waiting to be used again for candles. These candle containers are the long white ones, generally found in churches. Is there a particular wick I can use or does it matter on the kind of wax? Is there a hard wax as opposed to a soft wax. Soft wax burns so quickly…
Any thoughts?
Mike
A number of years ago we took the glass candel
containers from the church candels and filled them with dried beans and spices for a pot of soup. Covered the top with a square of cotton fabric and secured it with a ribbon,
bow and added the reciepe.