On Thursday, August 9, 2012 12:42:59 AM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
I like to go to auctions and find bargains. A few weeks ago I bought a

boxfull of oddball items because there was one item in the box that I

wanted. I loaded that box in my car and several other buys from that

sale and drove home. On the way home I was near choking from an

extremely obnoxious potent sweet smell in the car that was NOT pleasant.

In fact I could not wait to get home and find the cause of this odor.

As soon as I got home I began to unload. That odor was coming from the

oddball box. In there I found everything from tools to kitchen

utensels, and a plastic bag with 4 candles. Those candles were the

cause of the odor. It said "scented candles" on them. Scented (my

ass), stinky is a better word. Maybe the combination of 4 different

colored (probably four different scents) made it worse. All I knew is

that they were not coming in the house, in fact I'd invite a skunk in

the house before those candles came in.



I left them in the bag, outside my garage, near the door. The next day

I got within 25 feet of the garage and could smell them already. This

time I moved the bag to the rear of the garage. I sort of forgot about

them until yesterday when I opened the rear window in the garage. There

was that annoying odor again, and it nearly floored me. It seems the

hot sun on that bag is making the odor worse.



I know, someone is going to ask me why I dont just toss them in the

trash. It's because I live on a farm in the country and we have no

garbage pickup. We burn it, bury it, or find another way. We can take

recycleable cans and bottles to a certain place, which is only open on

certain days and hours, and quite honestly I dont have time for that

nonsense, since they are only open about 3 hours a week. I just haul

all the aluminum cans and anything else they will buy, to the metal

recyclers once a year, and try to find places for other containers.

(like friends who live in the city's garbage cans). Everything else

gets burned.



Anyhow, I now have these stinky candles, and I really want them gone.

The thought occurred to suffer that odor long enough in my car, back to

town, and drop them in the garbage barrel at the gas station, or just

toss them out the window onto the highway and risk a fine for littering.

But I really dont want them in my car again. Burying them on some

distant place on my acreage comes to mind, but I just know that either

some animal will dig them up, or a plow or machinery will do it, and

that odor will haunt me forever.



The last thought is burning......

I have a large pile of brush, feed bags, baling twine and other debris

to burn. I could just toss them in that pile and let them burn......

But MAYBE the odor will remain????? The last thing I need is to have to

smell that stink in my burn pile for the next 5 or 10 years, and that

pile is near my barn......



Do you think burning will kill that odor?

What else can I do?







*** Whoever invented scented candles should be SHOT by a firing

squad!!!!





By the way, some wild animal (probably a raccoon) ate part of one of

them. I sure wish it would have ate ALL of them (and the plastic bag).

But I suspect the animal died after a few bites. I know I would!!!!

Mail them to Martha Stewart.