I have gone very candle-heavy for my mantlepiece Christmas decorating this year, which means a lot of long matches. And I’ve run out completely – not of matches, but long matches which are needed to reach the little sucker tea lights at the bottom of a long tea light holder.
And then I read somewhere that you can use a piece of spaghetti as a taper and it really does work!
I mean, it’s not totally efficient and your house will smell like burnt toast for about 15 minutes but, hey, it’s not the worst smell in the world…
I’ve given up on matches all together. Long taper lighters are the way forward for no burnt fingers. Refillable gas ones x
Wow! Who knew! I have lots of rechargeable, colour changing and flickering candle style things. I only have pasta shells and linguine but will try this next time I have spaghetti! Thank you!