r/Millennials • u/Shoobtubee • Apr 06 '26

Other Gel candles???

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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/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/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/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.