Who doesn?t look good in candlelight" If you come over to my apartment for dinner, chances are that my boyfriend and I will be burning at least eight candles. Specifically, unscented, white 10-inch tapers in haphazardly arranged groups of silver candlesticks.
There might be five or six on the dining table. A few on our sideboard. One on the windowsill. And maybe one or two on the coffee table. Eating by candlelight has dropped all pretense for us and just become something we regularly do. It?s cozy, intimate, and, hey, who doesn?t look good in candlelight"
But while romantic, this habit can get expensive. We burn through more candles in a week than I care to admit. (A conservative estimate" Somewhere between six to eight.) I?m embarrassed to say that I have spent upwards of $30 on a pack of 12 candles, only to watch us burn through them in just a few days. Once that happened, I quickly began a hunt for affordable candles. I wanted to score an 8- to 10-inch candle for under one dollar, which I thought would be reasonable if we were going through about 30 candles a month.

A not entirely unusual scene for dinner.

I first checked out Costco, only to be disappointed to find that they had no candle options to even consider. I then went to Bed, Bath, & Beyond, but their candles were over $1 apiece. Amazon was fruitless, too, which I was quite surprised by.
My boyfriend suggested that I check out Ikea, but their offer of an eig...