Candle Comparison

I just received an email from one of my favorite stores, whose name I will not mention (just because I'm not one to openly bash any other businesses), where I have previously spent HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of dollars on fragrance candles. Anyway, the email is advertising the scents of the "season". (This is typically when my wallet mysteriously appears in my hand and the credit card falls out and begins typing its own numbers into the payment field of the hundred dollar order that has materialized on my computer screen.)

Not today.

It's crazy to think of how much money I've spent on candles in the past. You name the brand, I've bought it. I swear a clerk once offered me stock in Illuminations because I practically signed over my paychecks to them...thankfully they went out of business and saved my financial livelihood.

This year, I am proud to say that my pocketbook will be a little bit heavier because I won't be spending as much money on home fragrance products.

Here is what I would typically be buying right now:

• 5 medium jar candles (one for each new Fall fragrance available) @ $22.99 each. Each candle will last me between 69 and 90 hours.
• Two cheesy 'lampshades' that fit on top of the jars. Why two? One for a candle at each edge of my coffee table, because having just one candle-with-cheesy-lampshade sitting there just doesn't look right to me, so I have to have matching ones. (That I just end up throwing away at the end of the year because they've turned black with soot and I'm too lazy to clean them) for $18.99 each.

That's $152.93 in candles, before taxes. Pitiful, I know.

With Scentsy, this is what I'll be spending:

• Two full-size warmers (which don't necessarily have to match, because they are designed to be stand alone fixtures in any room. So, one for the living room and one for the bedroom.
• 6 Scentsy bars - each in a new Fall/Winter scent. Each bar will last me between 60 and 90 hours.

All for $85 before taxes.

A SAVINGS OF $67.93! AND, I get an extra 60-90 hours of scents because I'm purchasing six bars instead of 5 candles.

It's a no brainer, right? And no one will yell at me if I forget to turn my Scentsy off. (Not that I would ever forget to blow out a candle, who does that right? Okay. I'm guilty. Thankfully I didn't burn anything down.)