Aside from ensuring you don’t light them near curtains or any other potential fire hazard, there are proper ways to light candles. For example, you should trim your wick before each burn. Here’s why.

I was thinking about a video I recently saw about candles. Before seeing the video, I had never given candles much thought. They did what they did, and they seemed trivially simple in their structure.

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