Do you have an Advent Candle?

Yes. Bought it at Lincoln cathedral shop. We always have one and an Advent calendar, even though it's just the two of us at home now.

A house in a nearby town burnt down last week; an unattended candle was the cause. Please, do take care.

Yes I have one and lots and lots of lights strung with greenery on mantelpieces. Got my candle from lakeland this year. Very pretty.

Jaxjacky

No candle, but a calendar, just with pictures behind the windows and still enjoy opening it every morning.

Same here. I’ve never had an Advent candle, but I do like my Advent calendars - it comes from never having had one as a child.

pen50

A house in a nearby town burnt down last week; an unattended candle was the cause. Please, do take care.

My son nearly burnt down his historic college room at university with a candle. It caught the curtain. He was more upset because the candle was stuck in a yellow plastic duck he’d had since he was four, and that was destroyed. Amazingly, they let him stay in college (in another room while his original one was restored) and although he got a lecture he was not punished.

I’ve never trusted candles since, so I haven’t got an Advent candle!

petal53

Last night we lit our Advent Calendar for the first time this year. We have one every year. We went to church in the morning and of course the first candle was lit there, but at home we have one candle that’s supposed to burn down each evening to the next mark. We don’t have Advent Calendars, although we always got them for our children, but we always have the candle.

Do you have an Advent candle at home?

Have had one all my life every single Christmas, I love them, very Scandinavian. I also have an advent wreath where you burn the candles respectively on the 4 Sundays in advent. On the 4th Sunday all 4 burn down together.

RosiesMaw2

I hope you didn’t light your Advent Calendar OP !

The advent calendar IS a candle in this instance, you burn one day at the time which is marked accordingly.

AuntieE

I don't have an advent candle, but I do have an advent wreath with four candles. One for each Sunday of advent. The first candle was of course lit on Sunday, and I light it every evening at dinner time. The others will be lit on the comings Sundays and burn during the week too.

You are supposed to burn a 1/4 of the first candle on the first Sunday, another 1/4 together with 1/2 of the 2nd candle on the 2nd Sunday and another 1/4 of the first and 2nd and 3/4 of the 3rd on the 3rd Sunday on the 4th Sunday they get burned right down. Hope that makes sense.

I've never had an advent candle but always got calendars for the children when small. The first one was a traditional one one with doors with pictures behind. We reused it many times though they expectd ones with chocolate as they got older.
This year I made an advent nativity scene for my grandchildren. There are 24 felt characters/items which velcro onto a background. The items are packed in an advent calendar box which originally had toiletries in it so it even smells nice. I did add chocolate coins but only from part way through the month so they won't have found any yet. I got so excited on Sunday to receive a photo of them after they opened the first box. I spent months making it and am looking forward to going to stay at Christmas and seeing them open the last few to complete the picture. Hopefully it will become a family heirloom.

No. Huge fire risk, because people forget to blow them out. (Also I am not religious, so would never consider buying one!)

Yes, I get one most years. Makes me sit for awhile amongst the rush of it all.

Oldbat1

No - too dangerous

Too true. The management of the block of retirement apartments which I inhabit very wisely forbids them. Many residents are taking cocktails of medications and sometimes doze in and out of a semi-awake/semi-asleep state, so candles of any description are banned outright.

No, no indoor candles here unless there’s a power cut.

I do make ice lanterns for the garden though. An ice bowl made in the freezer and then out outside with a lit candle to welcome guests. I love putting berries and greenery in the ice to make a festive lantern.