What do you toss and what do you save and reuse?


As I pulled out the smoking candle from the cake, I thought of this? Do you save and reuse the candle or toss it? My mother always saved them.

Save it of course! My son just turned 8. We used the number "8" Never know when you might need it again. When Grandpa turns 80, we only need to get a "0"! Of course, that is twenty years away...

We save birthday candles.:cake:

I save them too. I just throw them in the dish water and wash the icing off and they look almost as good as new.

I don't usually save them. I remember my mother always did, but then she never reused the old ones. They just hung around in a drawer forever.

My mother always saved them and reused them the next year. But she never bought th ones that were numbers they were just straight candles. I will probaby do the same when I have kids.

We save birthday candles. :) Julia winds up with a new one each year, as the oldest, but Patrick and Matthew will always have used ones. ;)

Save & we use the small straight ones. When the numbers get high we get creative and put as many as we want and turn the # of candles into some kind of math problem where the answer is the age of the birthday boy or girl. Goofy bunch here.;)

I save the candles...and on the rare occasion that the cake was store bought and decorated...I save the decorations too...then, when we make a cake at home, the kids decorate the cake with the old decorations...sometimes, it is very funny when they combine different decorations :)

We save the candles--- and get creative with how we put them on the cakes when we get "old".. . . generally in the shape of the numbers, ect.

We also sometimes buy the number candles-- and we save those too-- I have nearly all the numbers now.

I don't save them, if I do then I can't find them when I need them again.;)

I save the candles too! Even nubbies! just never know when you'll need the to light a candle or another burner.

depends on how low they have gotten. if they were only lit for a little bit and still in decent shpe, i'll save them. if they have burned down to teh bottom, i'll toss them. next year's cake won't look nice with a blob of wax on it from a subby candle.

i also save all my drink bottles and refill them with water or juice for work.

i toss em. when i had saved them, i never remembered where i put em....

Save! Keep them in a small flat tupperware so I can find them the next time I need them and they don't get all gunkie in the drawer. Picked the tup up for .10 at a yard sale. Also save soap slivers and chunks they go into worn out pantyhose by the garden hose for outside clean up and dog washing.
Also save drink containers to reuse.

Laurie in Bradenton

I save them too!

I'm a saver, too! We save water bottles, too, and refill them for when we go out. I hate going somewhere, and find they are charging $2.00 for a little bottle of water!

we havent used candles yet for dd

I used to save them. I ended up tossing all of them when I de-junked the kitchen drawers. I don't miss 'em. :)

I save the candles, the reusable decorations, and sometimes put a piece of cake in the freezer, too!! HAHA! We have alot of birthdays at once, and there's only so much cake that will fit on your thighs! :toothy:

I dont save used candles, a box is .85 cents so I dont feel bad.

No kids, rarely any cakes in the house, so no candles. If we used birthday candles, though, I'd probably reuse them. Why keep buying and throwing away something that's rarely lit for more than a minute?

I have re-used the small ones to make new votives. I put broken chunks of thick candles around the cake candle to hold it up in a votive holder, then poured melted wax over all. When it cools....new candle.

We save em. I re-use the water bottles, wax bags out of cereal and always wash those expensive ziplock bags.