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To: Jamestown1630
Candles can get pretty expensive, when you can buy such good battery LED lanterns for cheap now.

You have to charge the LED lanterns somehow. Plus they don't do much good when you are freezing to death. At least you can huddle around a burning candle.

39 posted on 12/21/2022 12:34:09 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

The ones I have run on batteries. They’ve lasted us through several years of occasional blackouts without even changing them.

I like the ambience of candles, but I’ve never found a burning candle to give off much heat unless you build one of those clay pot ‘ovens’.


44 posted on 12/21/2022 1:03:20 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Bubba_Leroy; Jamestown1630

Get a small candle lantern, go into a small closet and wrap your blankets around you (except for your head) while sitting against a wall, with the candle lantern between your legs.

The tent-like effect will warm you up and recharge your internal thermostat.

You can also put the candle lantern into a heavy can or pot, set it underneath a chair or stool, and cover everything but your head with your blankets for the tent-like effect, while you use your led headlamp to read a book, or play cards.


49 posted on 12/21/2022 5:54:23 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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