Reuse Candles

Benefits
Environmental Benefit: ★★☆☆☆
By reusing your birthday candles, you reduce landfill waste from partially-burned candles and packaging, and possibly save fuel from extra trips to the store for candles.

Money Saved: ★★☆☆☆
Probably just a couple of dollars, depends on how many times they are reused!

Lifestyle Benefit: ★★☆☆☆
Saves having to go buy more candles all the time for birthdays!


What We're Doing
Those little thin birthday candles are really only good for one birthday - they burn up so fast! So we've mostly been using the "numbers" at least for the kids' cakes. They don't melt much unless you sing the birthday song reeeeally slooooowww! So far we've been able to use them for all four girls and on some of our cakes, and you know what? They really don't care that they've been used before. In fact, it almost adds to the fun when they realize that the candle number was on their sister's cake a year or two before and now it's on their cake!

A Little Humor
Why do you blow out the candles on your birthday cake?
Because throwing water on the candles will ruin your cake, silly.