Anonymous wrote:I buy candles for gifts at bath and body works - everyone loves them and thinks they are so wonderful

Those people also love a good steak from Outback. Bath & Body Works is for junior high girls and LMC women.

I have candles with an on/off switch

I buy candles for gifts at bath and body works - everyone loves them and thinks they are so wonderful

Anonymous wrote:Never who still uses candles they cause cancer.

Everything causes cancer.

Never who still uses candles they cause cancer.

I love them as a hostess gift but gave one once and got a snarky response by the hostess and never gave one after that. I do not like flowers (they die) so my hierarchy of preferred gifts is plant then candle then food like chocolates.

1. Go no gifts for adults. No adult needs candles, no adult needs a gift certificate for something they could just buy themselves.

2. Maybe, like me, your SIL lights candle at home a lot and thinks you will like them.

OP sounds like my SIL who insists on bags of presents for adults every single Christmas, even though I tried for years to get her to tone it down. Nope, wouldn't do it; so now I trying to buy her as many consumable items (like candles, hand cream, etc... as possible) rather than just buy gift certificates. Why just exchange money with gift certificates rather than buying nothing?

As the other pp said, please free your SIL and the other adults in your life from buying Christmas gifts for adults.

They're actually bad for the environment so ... practically never. I have one beeswax one that I got in 2023 and have lit exactly once.

Anonymous wrote:The very rare times when I use candles, I use beeswax. I am very particular. I don’t like too many carcinogens in my house.

Same. Are the crazy expensive ones even safe?

Anonymous wrote:There's that great skit on SNL where there is only one peach scented candle that gets regifted over and over

One of my all time favorites. I rewatch every year, and when I saw this thread title, I came here to post the link.
Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/_L5Xkb78KxY?si=NnaLD3DYL1qO6GEi

I always have two scented candles burning while I am in the house. One in the living room and one in my bedroom.

Anonymous wrote:How many do you have? I have 6 candle jars in various sizes given to me as gifts, I still haven’t used all of them. The extra two I’m given, I will regift.

Have you seen the prices of candles? Why so expensive? The pretty smell never lasts. I’d rather be given the $25/$35 dollars in a certificate towards a spa or restaurant. My sister-in-law never fails, every Christmas a candle… Any suggestions for s comparable gift? I have a dinner party invite this weekend…Tx

Zero candles in our home. Prefer fresh air to the chemical scent, and would never give as a gift

There's that great skit on SNL where there is only one peach scented candle that gets regifted over and over

I light a candle almost every day. I love the scented ones. They make my house smell so good, especially after cooking a stinky meal like fish, Indian food or even frying a steak.

Daily.

I prefer no gifts. Come be my guest. Flowers if you must. A plant cutting if you know me.