I love candles, but they’ve been off limits to me for ten years now because I have to use supplemental oxygen. I’m glad there are some pretty good LED ones nowadays.
@Pony
Sorry to hear you’re in that situation, but as an ex ER nurse thank you for using the term “supplemental oxygen”.
It always used to trip me out when people said ‘I use oxygen at home’. I always wanted to ask “What did you breathe before”? Sulpher dioxide?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hope your health is stabilized sufficiently to be at a point where you are still able to find and do things that bring you joy…
@kittykat9180 That cat looks to be preparing for some sacrifice or witchcraft or something. I mean, with that many lit candles, that’d be something I’d be doing … not that I’m a cat, y’know.
I love the look and ambiance of candles. We’ve decorated a lot of stages and surroundings with candles to great effect. I used to have a lot around the house… until we noticed that several of us had much worse allergies when they were lit. Now we have a few LED candles, but most of our ambiance lighting is animated LED these days. I’m not sure it’s an upgrade in style or feel, but being able to breathe is a pretty good trade. (And when we had cats, they were definitely a little too interested in the fire for their own good, so it wasn’t perhaps quite as hard a decision as it could have been.)
@jsfs
I can remember being in college (many moons ago) and sitting on the couch watching my roommate’s cat walk down the side of a coffee table. His tail was flicking from one side to the other with each step. Timing was such that the last flick was directly over the top of the candle flame as he got to the end of the coffee table. Didn’t take him long to move across the room and climb the curtains. That ended our candle lighting days.
Guess if we hadn’t been stoned we would have probably been able to stop that chain of events…
@pakopako Now those I could go for! No need for chocolate go to waste from melting when I already have almost enough candlepower to simulate a low yield airburst.
My mood towards candles are always waxing and waning.
@yakkoTDI
(Great line BTW) 
My mood towards candles
areis always waxing and waning.FIFY
I keep thinking I’m a candle person, but I’m not.
We have several Glassybaby candles in the house and I do enjoy when they are lit.
I’m at my wick’s end, so I might be an AI generated candle person
@pakopako please tell me more before you are gone.
@pakopako You must know “@drunkcat”. He’s “AI”-generated too.
I love candles, but they’ve been off limits to me for ten years now because I have to use supplemental oxygen. I’m glad there are some pretty good LED ones nowadays.
@Pony
Sorry to hear you’re in that situation, but as an ex ER nurse thank you for using the term “supplemental oxygen”.
It always used to trip me out when people said ‘I use oxygen at home’. I always wanted to ask “What did you breathe before”? Sulpher dioxide?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hope your health is stabilized sufficiently to be at a point where you are still able to find and do things that bring you joy…
We have cats. Our options when it comes to candles are tempered by that.
i enjoy a candle now and then, but not too often.
it mainly depends on the frequency and duration of power outages.
/showme a candle person
Definitely me frfr
/showme a cat the enjoys sent candles a lot.
@mediocrebot does the cat enjoy candles it bought or only ones that were sent?
@kittykat9180 That cat looks to be preparing for some sacrifice or witchcraft or something. I mean, with that many lit candles, that’d be something I’d be doing … not that I’m a cat, y’know.
@narfcake definitely some kind of ritual going on.
I love the look and ambiance of candles. We’ve decorated a lot of stages and surroundings with candles to great effect. I used to have a lot around the house… until we noticed that several of us had much worse allergies when they were lit. Now we have a few LED candles, but most of our ambiance lighting is animated LED these days. I’m not sure it’s an upgrade in style or feel, but being able to breathe is a pretty good trade. (And when we had cats, they were definitely a little too interested in the fire for their own good, so it wasn’t perhaps quite as hard a decision as it could have been.)
@jsfs
I can remember being in college (many moons ago) and sitting on the couch watching my roommate’s cat walk down the side of a coffee table. His tail was flicking from one side to the other with each step. Timing was such that the last flick was directly over the top of the candle flame as he got to the end of the coffee table. Didn’t take him long to move across the room and climb the curtains. That ended our candle lighting days.
Guess if we hadn’t been stoned we would have probably been able to stop that chain of events…
(Yes, the cat was fine… Thanks for asking.)
I keep one in the water closet.
Huh? I guess AI ain’t writing the poll…
I buy candles often. I use them less often. I have banned myself from buying anymore until there are none stored away
@cbatte …or unless a really good clearance price?
I’m ambivalent about candles.
i want to eat yankee candle’s chocolate cake candle. it’s so good
/showme DocJRoberts eating chocolate candles by the armful
@pakopako Now those I could go for! No need for chocolate go to waste from melting when I already have almost enough candlepower to simulate a low yield airburst.
KuoH