I might have a slight addiction to Bath and Body Works candles... I get excited when they are 2 for $20 and I also have a coupon. Before Christmas I bought four, brought them home, and that's when T saw me putting them away in the closet to find my stash. (Hi, my name is M, and I'm addicted to candles). It was that moment that I was banned from buying anymore until I used what I have... well... I don't know how many I have to use before I'm "allowed" to buy more... but I imagine that I have to use enough to have room for the new ones. (Speaking of their candles I haven't purchased ANY of their new summer scents and I'm itching to get at least one)
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| Stash |
Let me tell you an advantage about BBW candles that I have learned... you can burn the candle and then use the glass container with a lid for plenty of things. It's like a bonus of buying the candles! I thought that the candle would burn down low enough for me to just pop the residual candle out and then clean - wrong. Pinterest comes in handy so much people, I really don't know what I did before it came around?! I searched on there to find how to "reuse Bath and Body Works candle jars" and sure enough there were a few tutorials. I used this one,
here, and found it very helpful.
I put the candle in the freezer overnight. I expected the candle to "shrink" up in the jar but it didn't exactly do that, it just made it hard and easier to separate from the glass jar (which I'm okay with!).
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| after (no real difference, sorry) |
The cleaning process is pretty self explanatory so I'll skip that part. What I will say is I need to burn my candles faster because it is such a clean, neat, and easy way to organize things. This first jar I used to keep cotton balls in the coffee table drawer since I'm always painting/repainting my nails, applying treatments to my nails and cuticles, or just plain need a cotton ball to accomplish something (like cleaning things out).
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| See the cotton balls? I took he lid off so you can see why I wanted a cotton ball holder |
As you can see the coffee table is pretty much where I store everything that I would "need" in the LR. If you ask T what annoys him the most it would probably be that when we sit down to watch a show I will begin to think about things I want to do... hop up and go get something, measure something, find something... ya get the point? I pretty much can't sit still (this might explain why we rarely go to movies). This is why I try to keep as many things in the drawer as possible.
Yes... I notice that it needs to be organized and cleaned out - but I show you how it looks everyday, not cleaned up for the picture.
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| The clear glass and shiny top combo make me happy. |
Confession: I'm sad that I haven't been reusing my candle jars in the past because I probably could have an arsenal of these glass jars. My next couple of jars that I have are going to go in the SR to hold random bits of craft supplies that will be stored on a shelf (at least that's the plan as of today).
What else have you stored in jars?
