"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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| Just a coda on the power outage prep thread:
|
| I stopped by the Goodwill Last Chance store yesterday, and bought a
| whole shopping bag full of candles for $1. If you are not familiar with
| Goodwill, they have outlet stores where they keep things for 24 hours
| before they are trashed or recycled. It's stuff that didn't sell in the
| regular store, so it's pretty much "make an offer."
|
| Anyway, I bought about 35 lbs of candles for $1. About half the weight
| was pillar candles, and about half was tapers. Thanks to this little
| foray, I now have about 80 or 90 tapers on hand. I guess now I need to
| keep my eyes open for a candelabra.

Or a grand piano and some gold lame