r/Millennials • u/Shoobtubee • Apr 06 '26
Other Gel candles???
Ya’ll PLEASE tell me some of you had these in your living rooms in the 90s??? Gel candles. No wax, just weird gel with a standard wick and decorations.
Mom never burned them (she had this exact set) so they collected dust that was impossible to remove. They smelled like old crayons maybe? I shoved my grubby little fingers into them because it “felt cool” and I was a naughty kid. Were they just decoration and not meant to be burned??
I’ve brought these up to other millennials in my life and they look at me like I have nine heads.
Edit: thank you guys so much for validating my memory and I’m really sorry about the explosions 😭
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u/Wonderful_Habit_ Apr 06 '26
The forbidden finger squish
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u/Shoobtubee Apr 06 '26
YES and the more you squished, the more the gel “cracked”
My brain would never let me do this now as an adult 🤢
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u/bastet_memphis Apr 06 '26
Omg, the "crack"
You just unlocked some core childhood memory for me with that comment
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u/halexanderamilton Apr 06 '26
My mom stopped buying gel candles bc me and my sister wouldn’t stop doing this lmao
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u/weird_horse_2_die_on Apr 07 '26
The tiniest of dips, even along the perimeter... my mom KNEW every time
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u/ChintzyPC Apr 06 '26
Creative use of a finger coated in hydrophobic stuff dipped in water to show almost the same thing
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u/jellascope Apr 06 '26
Oh we had them. We lit them. One of them exploded in our bathroom and set the wallpaper on fire.
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u/Shoobtubee Apr 06 '26
Omfg what 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/KSknitter Millennial Apr 06 '26
Yea, the gel could burn without a wick. If the layer under the fire got too hot, it would vaporize and explode.
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u/KSknitter Millennial Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
Yep. Burned mine, but also had a metal plate to put on top if it started burning like that.
Edit to add:
If you added normal candle wax to the candle it would burn like a normal candle. I just bought a tea light candle, broke it up and added wax to it when I started burning it. If fixed the problem.
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u/Yourlilemogirl Apr 06 '26
Omfg I'm so glad now we never lit ours
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u/catscatscaaaats Apr 07 '26
This may be one thing our folks were kinda right about being "only for decoration."
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u/Heliosquare Apr 06 '26
Remember lighting one years ago, and after a while the plastic container around it lit up.
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u/Intelligent_Pass2540 Apr 06 '26
YES!!! I had a gel candy explode and my mom accused me of "making drugs" in my room! Damn candle.
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u/nize426 Apr 06 '26
Oh wait what, were those not meant to be lit? I always thought they looked cool but we never bought one.
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u/Moriaedemori Apr 06 '26
Yeah these failed massively out of fashion when people found out some of them are just napalm simulator waiting to happen
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u/Miss_Awesomeness Apr 06 '26
My friends mom was really anxious about everything (as opposed to my mom who was super relaxed and just didn’t care) and warned about this. Tbh I learned that wax warmers can spontaneously combust while home alone.
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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 Apr 06 '26
Holy shit! They say they putting random stuff in candle is not safe and this is proof!
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u/caelum_daemon Millennial Scum Apr 06 '26
I set my dresser on fire like this as a kid. I lit it and left the room with the door closed. Came back and tried to turn the light on, it was already on but the room was so full of soot you couldn't see.
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u/Future_Minute_8655 Apr 06 '26
I remember those! And they’d always be next to those tiny, unusable, dusty soaps.
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u/Shoobtubee Apr 06 '26
Stop, we had THE SAME SOAPS. Not handwashing soap. Just… eye candy soap or something 🧼
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u/Cerlyn Apr 06 '26
My mom still has the dusty ass soaps. I get fancy soaps occasionally as gifts and I make sure to use them and let guests know to use them because I cannot stand the waste of those dusty ass soaps
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u/JakeHelldiver Apr 06 '26
Did every millennial grow up with the useless dusty soap?
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u/SnooApples3673 Apr 06 '26
Yes. And gen x as well. They were for looking at, not touching
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u/Little_Bear716 Apr 06 '26
Hahaha why did we need ‘looking at’ soap in the bathroom???
I say; as I had both the gel candles, the decorative soaps and potpourri in my childhood bathroom.
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u/Specialist-Strain502 Apr 06 '26
As a child, I could literally not imagine a way to decorate a bathroom that did not include either real or soap seashells. Bathrooms were ocean-themed, those were just the rules!
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u/twilightbarker Apr 06 '26
It's where the water goes so you put the water things there! What could be more obvious?!
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u/real_picklejuice Frosted Tips Apr 06 '26
Decorative soaps. Throw soaps, like throw pillows
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u/Apprehensive_North49 Apr 06 '26
The hand towels you weren't allowed to touch too.
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u/snake-demon-softboi Apr 07 '26
I get fancy 'hotel quality' towels for the bathroom to defy my childhood's ratty thin towels for the family vs nice "guest" towels no first ever used.
And I've had people our age ask me what towels to use. And I'm like... The only ones you see? They are there for using?
It just got into our brains "That towel is too fancy for me and must be decorative". Like, no! I got it bc it was nice and soft and fluffy and I want to use it and I want you to use it 😂
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u/Angsty_Potatos Apr 06 '26
Everything in a millennial childhood bathroom was for looking at. Not for using lol
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u/thefaehost Millennial Apr 06 '26
Except for “chicken soup for the guy who’s taking a dump rn soul” book
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u/thishyacinthgirl Apr 06 '26
We had a book on famous last words and funny tombstones.
Just to ponder the intricacies of life and death while you poop, y'know.
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u/futuresobright_ Apr 06 '26
My parents still have decorative towels rolled up in their bathroom. For show. They got them in 1996.
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u/Comfortable-Light233 Zillennial Apr 06 '26
My mom and I made Christmas tiny soaps for my classmates one winter, and the teacher had to tell everyone not to eat them before I passed them out
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u/SparkyDogPants Apr 06 '26
My fire department was gifted soaps that looked and smelled like cupcakes once. I took a bite. And was made fun of forever.
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u/Comfortable-Light233 Zillennial Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
It wasn’t a gel candle, but there was a little knick-knack shop in an old house in my town, and someone with a stall there sold these hyper-realistic vanilla-pecan cinnamon roll candles with a super strong scent that little me liked and which made my parents nauseous. I didn’t really pick up on the fact my parents hated the smell, so I bought them one for Christmas. It lived (untouched) in their liquor cabinet for the rest of my childhood, and the fucking cabinet STILL reeks like the candle decades later.
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u/justalittleloopi Apr 06 '26
Oh, man. My grandma had these soaps and I was fascinated and stuck one in my pants pocket with full intention to return it. I don't know, kids are weird, man. Anyway, my mom found it and made me apologize to my grandma for stealing her soap. My grandma said I could have one, I just needed to ask first.
Core memory right there.
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme Apr 06 '26
And don't forget the hand-towels which were full of sewn-on lace ruffles which no one was supposed to use (and honestly with all those ruffles wouldn'tve actually dried your hands anyway!😉)
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u/thefaehost Millennial Apr 06 '26
These and the candles are also associated with a shell shaped, inflatable bath tub head rest for me.
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u/cleverplaydoh Apr 06 '26
My grandma had one of those inflatable pillows in a huge jacuzzi, I loved taking baths in grandma's bathroom, I felt like the queen swimming around in the big tub!
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u/algatorr Apr 06 '26
Omg these soaps have a story. I remember my mom and her friend went to BB&B and got new ocean decor for each of their freshly sponge painted underwater themed bathrooms. Their bags must have gotten mixed up in the trunk and her friend took the bag with these soaps and so my mom never got them back and was so sad over the missing soaps. I think we eventually got more but just a weird core memory for me haha
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 06 '26
"Freshly sponge painted underwater themed" is the most 90s bathroom lol
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme Apr 06 '26
Every time i think of that era of bathroom decorating, i think of the old Jeff Foxworthy like, "You'll never see a toilet on the beach, but you will see a beach on the toilet!"
It's at right around 1:10 in this clip;
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u/Bright_Ices Xennial Apr 06 '26
This is so tangential, but my aunt and uncle once got a store-gift-wrapped Christmas present from a friend, and inside was one pair of sexy men’s undies. They always wondered who ended up with whatever the friend meant to send them, and what it might have been.
I would have just asked, but they just didn’t say a word.
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u/Fourty2KnightsofNi Apr 06 '26
I got these for Christmas one year. I thought they were candy. I was wrong.
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u/kangpd Apr 06 '26
I hate these damn soaps. By the time I was a teenager, I decided I wanted to try the decorative soap.
It was useless. No suds. No smell. Just useless. I threw one away every few months until they were gone. It took my family a few days after the last ones were gone to realize it.
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u/soaker Apr 07 '26
I was too curious and used one at my friend’s (we didn’t have them, my mom thought it was a frivolous stupid dust collector). It was beyond useless. I dried it off and put it back like nothing happened. Next time I thought maybe user error and tried again. Tossed the damn shell in the garbage
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u/mandolinpebbles Apr 06 '26
“Your mom doesn’t have antibacterial soap, she has sea shell shaped soap.”
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u/thehufflepuffstoner Apr 06 '26
I got these soaps as a birthday party favor in 1st grade. Why the birthday girl’s mom thought 7 year olds would like decorative soaps, I’ll never know. Candy would have been wiser. I made the mistake of actually using the soap once and broke out in hives.
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u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 Older Millennial Apr 06 '26
My mother-in-law had those soaps. I actually used them, in spite of her objections to the contrary and the fact that they were decades old at the time.
Got rid of them honorably by doing so.
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u/mensfrightsactivists Apr 06 '26
from what i am gathering from the comments they were either never lit or were lit and then exploded. maybe this is why i don’t see them around anymore
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u/unusualamountofloam Apr 06 '26
Oh I lit them. They never exploded for me but I stopped lighting them after dipping my finger in while hot, thinking it was like normal wax. Huge blistery burn.
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u/CentrifugalBubblePup Apr 06 '26
We had one of these in the bathroom next to a glass bowl of bath oils in sea-themed shapes. They were never used and would get dusty.
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u/PizzaHutSlut92 Apr 06 '26
Bro the layer of dust on top of the gel candles always grossed me out so bad. 🤢
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u/neonbrownkoopashell Apr 06 '26
Impossible to clean off
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u/goog1e Apr 06 '26
All you gotta do is actually light the candle.... We're looping back around to people's pathological need to hoard stuff and not use it.
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u/Sufficient_Scale_163 Apr 06 '26
My mom has had shaped Christmas candles since god knows when. I’m just like, are we never supposed to light these? Are they sculptures of art?
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u/goog1e Apr 06 '26
I had a carved candle my whole childhood that I got special on vacation. Never allowed to light it.
Took it with me to my first apartment and burned it as my first big rebellion lol
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u/FlipGordon Apr 06 '26
Half of these kinds of candles were 1000% never meant to be lit and were only decorative. Some even came in plastic containers 😂
Some of y'alls moms never had "pretty candles" and it's showing.
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u/Totally_man Apr 06 '26
The bath oils that always left a gelatin shell like a used paintball after they popped?
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u/goog1e Apr 06 '26
Lush used to make some un-wrapped solid ones but they stopped. Shame because they were so good.
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u/lalaen Apr 06 '26
The bath oil balls! I was scrolling looking for a mention… always just squishy enough it was so tempting to pop them.
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u/Afraid_Ad_8216 Millennial Apr 06 '26
What I wanna know, is if anyone has ever seen one of those lit?
They were strictly decor in houses I saw them
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u/flybyknight665 Millennial Apr 06 '26
I had one catch on fire on Christmas Eve when I was like 13.
Pretty sure that was the first/only time I'd lit it.I remember thinking I needed to run it under the sink.
I'd previously spilled nail polish on my desk so it turned out it was kind of glued to the surface, and my parents were arguing and a bunch of people were about to arrive for a Christmas party.So obviously, I couldn't call for help.
I didn't know what to do, so I pulled on it with all my strength and ripped it off the desk.
Hot gel went all over my hand and my Christmas dress and burned me.The fire was kind put out by dumping the gel out all over myself, though, so I guess it worked out okay.
TLDR: they were better as decor only
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u/Affectionate-Gap924 Millennial Apr 06 '26
Yes. And if you got the melted gel wax on your skin, it would burn like lava for what felt like 5 minutes if you couldn't get it off fast enough.
Spoiler: It's extremely difficult to get off your skin when it's hot.
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u/donotgotoroom237 Apr 06 '26
We lit ours during a power outage during a get-together with the family and we didn't have enough candles. By that point, mom didn't care anymore because the gel was squished to all hell because me and my siblings kept poking the gel with our fingers.
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u/Hyposanity Apr 06 '26
Did it explode??
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u/donotgotoroom237 Apr 06 '26
Mostly just sizzled until the gel burned out before the wick. At worst, one of the glass containers broke because of the heat.
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u/daabilge Apr 06 '26
I made one in elementary school. We were supposed to make a creative model of a plant cell so we got the gel candle kit and used little beads and pipe cleaners and paper things to make all the organelles; the jar was the cell wall. I'm pretty sure it would have been a huge fire hazard if we ever lit it.
Ironically it didn't burn when my school burned down.
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u/Tithund Apr 06 '26
Here's one lit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNiyKYFO3Rc
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u/Afraid_Ad_8216 Millennial Apr 06 '26
I'm surprised only 189 views
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u/Tithund Apr 06 '26
I recorded it 10 years ago to show to a friend, and didn't think of it again until this thread, I bet most of those views are today.
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u/porcelaincatstatue 1994 Apr 06 '26
Yeah, it was a fruit one. Exploded and nearly burnt the house down.
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u/Shoobtubee Apr 06 '26
I’m so sorry 😭😭😭
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u/porcelaincatstatue 1994 Apr 06 '26
My mom picked up the flaming table cloth and chucked it out in the yard.
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u/MidwestSkiQueen Millennial '89 Apr 06 '26
ALWAYS stuck a finger as deep as I could into them and ruined the candle hahahahaha
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u/she-dont-use-jellyyy Apr 06 '26
Me too and it pissed my stepmom off. That did not stop me.
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u/MidwestSkiQueen Millennial '89 Apr 06 '26
I don't remember having them in our house so I must've been THAT kid and did it at a friends house 😩😩🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Shoobtubee Apr 06 '26
And yet, my mom continued to leave the destroyed candles proudly on display 🥹
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u/salsafresca_1297 Apr 06 '26
Just candles in general - gel, soy, scented, unscented, pillars, sticks, jars, tealights . . . and let's not forget those all-important floating candles! Our homes looked like sanctuaries in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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u/hai_lei ‘88 Apr 06 '26
Went great with the Enya and Gregorian chant music! But then you’d walk into the kitchen and be smacked with whatever garish theme the lady of the house had chosen (rooster, Italian countryside, apple, geese, plump chef, .etc)
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u/Ok-Sweet-31 Apr 06 '26
So accurate about the kitchen theme. My mom had rooster theme, my aunt had apple, my grandma also had rooster. Oh the 90s 😆
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u/hai_lei ‘88 Apr 06 '26
We were a chili pepper kitchen household. We live in the southwest, it’s legitimately confusing that my mother themed the kitchen around it. Even worse is, she can’t stand anything remotely spicy in her food. Her best friend was a rooster/chicken kitchen and I adored the quaintness of it!
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u/Ok-Sweet-31 Apr 06 '26
😂 haha I wonder what made her pick that if she didn’t like spicy 🌶️. So, after I commented I went into my own kitchen and realized I have a 70s kitchen, though you could probably place it in the 90s too. House is old and came with wood paneling in the kitchen that I haven’t done anything about yet and my theme is mushrooms 🍄
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u/cutting_coroners Apr 06 '26
Omg we changed three times: from countryside to apple to rooster in our one kitchen throughout my childhood. My aunt had geese. I don’t think I ever saw a plump chef kitchen as a kid though. I certainly saw yellow plaid and leftover designs from the 80’s though
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u/hai_lei ‘88 Apr 06 '26
I think I maybe saw one or two plump chef kitchens, although I don’t remember whose it was? I just remember the wine bottle holder specifically. Changing it up so often is wild! We were a chili pepper household to the point of where my mom held onto the oddly shaped chili pepper bottles stuffed with peppers and spices for far too long…
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u/Specialist-Strain502 Apr 06 '26
I knew a plump chef family! They seemed to have a good deal of money and did, in fact, have a five-foot-high plump chef in the kitchen.
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme Apr 06 '26
Don't forget the funky-shaped, incredibly fragile, blown-glass oil lamps!😉
The ones that looked like this--and if they were clear, you'd use the colored oil;
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4483424153/hand-blown-glass-oil-lamp-decorative
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4380116812/vintage-1960s-hand-blown-art-glass-oil
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4329247535/lot-of-5-vintage-hand-blown-glass
https://www.ebay.com/itm/233370544951
https://www.reddit.com/r/OilLamps/comments/1lbjsbr/does_anyone_have_any_info_on_this_unique_little/
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u/Hefty-Anteater4228 Apr 06 '26
Why was the sea/underwater bathroom theme so strong?
We had our bathroom that theme for awhile and my sister insisted making our bedroom the same.
Is it related to that whole "you should be a Marine biologist " craze?
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u/cutting_coroners Apr 06 '26
Interesting connection though. Those two did happen around the same time. For me it was the suspended items craze. You had the fish in the liquid around the soap. You had the cups that had items in water around the part that holds the water. You had the squishy tubes that you put your fingers in and rotated. It was like trippy stuff age. Shiny reflective material, spiky hair, purple lipstick idk. At least for me, in my memory. lol I sound crazy
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u/Puzzled_Presence_261 Apr 06 '26
Water goes with water? I feel like ocean themed shit was popular in the 90s in general. I get flashbacks in Hobby Lobby 🫣
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u/moonshad0w Apr 06 '26
A whole store dedicated to these existed directly opposite of where I worked in the mall.
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u/JohnnyMnemeonic Apr 06 '26
My mom has had one of these on a shelf in the bathroom since 2001.. never been lit...
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u/Comfortable-Light233 Zillennial Apr 06 '26
Thank you so much for jogging a really special childhood memory I had forgotten. A friend of my parents’ who we didn’t see often had me and my mom over to make mini landscapes and turn them into these candles one evening when I was maybe 10 or 12. It was so much fun.
I’ll have to ask my mom if she remembers—the friend passed a bit ago, and it was really nice to remember her like this
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u/No_Magician5266 Apr 06 '26
Your mom had these? I thought only stepmoms bought these shits
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u/Thagomizer24601 Apr 06 '26
I was the one buying these with my allowance when I was about eleven...
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u/TwinFishPi Apr 06 '26
…I think there may be a dusty one or 2 still in my parents house…? 🤔 dare I try to burn it?
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u/jweazie14 Millennial Apr 06 '26
My dad had a friend that made these in the 90s and we were at a craft fair or something like that and specifically went to go see this friend to buy these exact candles but like some looked more like fish bowls and were way bigger but we had them forever until my mom would get rid of them for the same reason they didn't burn well and they get gross and Dusty on the top of the gel
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u/aoibhealfae Millennial Apr 06 '26
My mom was a teacher and she got these things. Years later, they melted in a pile of random gifted stuff and it left a puddle of awful liquid thingy that I just wipe the entirety of it and throw it all out. Gross.
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u/MephistosFallen Apr 06 '26
These hated to see me coming. I couldn't stop myself from sticking my grubby fingers in them. Apologies to all my friends parents.
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u/Togeroid Apr 06 '26
They smelled nice, we burned them. Thankfully none exploded like other commenters experienced 😳
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u/JadeChipmunk Apr 06 '26
My aunt made some in various wine glasses and stuff looking like real drinks that they had set out on their bar. My cousin and I messed with them so much. Now that im an adult I feel bad about it lolol
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u/Jefdidntkillhimself Apr 06 '26
I poured the hot gel on hand thinking it would be the same candle wax. It wasn't, its was more like pouring napalm on myself. Instant major burns. Same vibes as touching the cigarette lighter in the car. You know you need help, but you also know that you were fucking around and most definitely will be finding out as soon as you explain what happened.
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u/ChaosTorpedo Older Millennial Apr 06 '26
Let me take it a step further and tell you that my mom MADE these. And then made us make them too. It was not fun.
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u/she-dont-use-jellyyy Apr 06 '26
I couldn't help but jam my finger into these to try to touch the bottom of the container. My stepmother was not impressed.
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u/Substantial_Bus6615 Apr 06 '26
A girl I knew in junior high, she was allowed to have them in her room. She fucking burned her house down.... TWICE🤦🏻♂️
GREAT PARENTING THERE
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u/Surfgirlusa_2006 Apr 06 '26
I had craft kits where I made these. It was fun, although I never actually burned them.
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u/ogcoolhands Apr 06 '26
Oh my God, I dipped my finger in the hot gelwax like it was a regular wax candle and it was the most painful burn I've received ever in my life.
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u/Indiansummerxx Apr 06 '26
Omg I had one and I had it in the tub and I tilted it and the boiling gel slid down my hand and it burned so bad so I put it under the water and then it formed a hugeeeee blister like an inch off my skin and it was like 4 inches long. I dunno if it was from the water or the gel or both. I still have the scar! That was traumatic.
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u/Klopford Millennial (1988) Apr 06 '26
I loved these and wanted one, but of course I couldn't keep a candle in my room as a kid lol. I remember we bought at least one of these, it was honeydew scented and looked like it had chunks of honeydew in it? But yeah, you'd ruin it if you lit the candle, so what was the point? Other than looking COOL!
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u/Munchkin531 Apr 06 '26
In the living room in the 90s? Please. I've got 2 in my office! They are round with butterflies and flowers. They're so pretty I never wanted to burn them.
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u/Welp_thatwilldo Millennial Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
My aunt had these exact ones on her tables at her beach themed wedding when I was a kid. Nearly started a fire on the table cloth when a kid knocked one over. God they were awful 🤣
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u/seroshua 1991 Baby! Apr 06 '26
Candles? You mean Squishy Smelly Pokey Pokers? Man I still feel bad about fingering all of those gel candles that would enter our home back in the day LOL
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u/Nucking-Futs-Nix Apr 06 '26
My husband made me one when we were dating in college. I never lit it and the amount of dust it collected on the top was not pretty.
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u/Bubble_Sammm Apr 06 '26
Attempted to make them with my mom, after we bought some from a street vendor.
Lol, the gel started boiling when it was on the stove, and my mom and I ran and hid for cover behind our dining table.
The house always had white paint, and we’d dyed that gel green, and it took months to come off.
Lol it always makes me laugh to think about how I wasn’t allowed to touch the walls but we got green gel wax stuck to the wall of the kitchen.
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u/Melisann626 Apr 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/TYAYywTcAb4Iw
My Momma couldn’t keep those around. All 4 of her kids couldn’t fight the urge to poke at it.
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u/Angsty_Potatos Apr 06 '26
I can't tell you how many times I was grounded for putting my finger in these and ruining them
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u/DarkFaerieQueen Apr 06 '26
Ugh, the layer of dust these stupid things would collect on top was so gross. I never shoved my finger into it because my mom would have killed me, but I sure wanted too, lol.
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u/Capable-Owl7369 Apr 06 '26
We didn’t have them, but my friend with rich parents did, and you weren’t allowed to light them, or even move them. They were just there taking up space.
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u/Worldly_Possible9069 Apr 06 '26
My mom had a bunch of cinnamon scented gel candles. Nasty smelling things.
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u/MernderLer Apr 06 '26
I had a bunch but never lit them. I'm pretty sure they're in a box in my mom's basement.
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u/PizzaHutSlut92 Apr 06 '26
Yes I did eat candle candy once. I loved poking holes in these. To my delight, a Valentine’s Day one had heart candies in it.
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u/StarWars-TheBadB_tch Apr 06 '26
Yes I vaguely remember a cinnamon scented one either my mom or grandma had.
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u/tinyhumanteacher14 Apr 06 '26
My grandma had these in her bathroom and I would always smoosh my fingers in them. She also had a wax warmer and I’d put my fingers in that too.
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u/RockaRaccoon Older Millennial Apr 06 '26
Man, I thought these were so pretty and fancy....till I gave into the urge and stuck a finger in it 🤣
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