During the holiday season, my wife burns way too many candles.
I don’t know what it is about candles that really puts her in the holiday spirit, but it is always that way during November and December.
Every time I come home from work during the winter, there are candles burning all over the house. It always looks like the house is on fire and I constantly tell her that she had better be careful that she doesn’t burn the house down. She always rolls her eyes at me and says that I just worry about things too much but I don’t think that’s the case. I think that it just takes one tiny problem with a burning candle and then you are completely out of luck! I hate that, but I know that it makes my wife happy so I just try to deal with it. The other problem with all of the candles in the house is that we have to change the air filter in the heating system all the time during the winter. We usually don’t change the air filter very often during the summertime, but during the winter whenever the candles are burning, we have to do it much more often. I guess it’s just something that I’m going to have to do during the winter if we are going to stay together, so that’s fine with me. I do like the way that the candles smell, but I wish that the indoor air quality in the house wasn’t affected by them quite so much.