What do you do with the left over jars from jar candles?

Question

I've got all the wax out of it, but now I don't know what to do with such a nice jar with such a nice, tight lid. It's too nice to just throw away. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Good answers above, or you can just avoid these candles and buy pillars instead, eliminate the jar altogether. Or buy a skinnier pillar and use an old jar to hold the new candle, it will slop into the jar and when you are down to the end of the candle, it will burn a little longer because it is collected in the jar.

You can also clean the jar up very well including the plastic insert that seals the lid...it pops out...and use it for food gifts like cookie mix in a jar, or soup in a jar, or whatever, or canisters for your kitchen, such as small amounts of beans, rice, sugar, coffee, etc. I keep about that amount of things like salad treats (sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, croutons, bacos, chow mein noodles) Removing the sticker is easy if you fill the jar with hot water and rub baby oil on the outside. Vinegar for any lingering smell, soak the plastic piece longer because it holds scent unlike glass. Last thing after all these treatments to get rid of goo and smell, is a good hot soapy water wash, rinse, and thoroughly air dry. Check for any trace of scent before you fill with food, if there is any scent, it will be absorbed by your food.

Makes a great piggy bank, pencil holder, hair band holder, cotton ball dispenser, pot pourri holder (replace lid with a doily attached by ribbon), or a tiny pot pourri lamp...in layers, fill the jar with a small strand of Christmas lights and pot pourri, adjusting things by poking things into place if needed with a pencil or a chopstick. Then add a doily with a ribbon or raffia, and the plug end of the lights sticks out the top. Plug it in, the scent is released by the small amount of heat from the lights.

You can also use a candle jar warmer, designed to use melt whole jar candles without having to light them...and fill an old jar with water that has liquid pot pourri, or essential oils.

Answer 2

Layer different colored noodles and raw hard beans (In bags at any grocery store) and use as decoration in your kitchen.

Or if you have the scent of the candle all cleaned out you can layer dry ingredients for a cookie recipe, put recipe on a recipe card and attach to the jar with a few ribbons. Give as a Gift to someone you care about or for a holiday,get well or just because.

Answer 3

Send it to me. LOL I reuse them all. I make my OWN candles, including the wicks and jar candles are the EASIEST candles to make of all. Just stick the wicks to the bottom of the jar, run a toothpick across the top and wtick the top of the wick to that, and pour in your melted wax. Let it harden and presto! A brand new jar candle. You can add candle dyes, and even add scented oils to the melted wax, before pouring, to make them unique.

Brightest Blessings,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 4

The scent will come out of the jar, but the rubber seal, if it has one, will always carry the candle scent. If it wasn't for that, you could give it to someone as a gift with candies or small cookies in it. The candle scent will ruin that, though. So I suggest using it in the bathroom with the tiny guest soaps stored in it, or bath salts, or leave the top off and put potpourri in it. Cotton balls, cotton swabs, makeup, bandages, pretty much anything small and not edible can go in it.

Answer 5

You can remove the wax by heating the jar and all in a very low oven. When the wax is all melted, pour it out and wipe the excess wax out of the jar with paper towels while the jar is still warm.

Answer 6

I have a big old yankee candle jar that I use as a Q-tip holder in the bathroom.

I suppose you could also use it as a candy jar.

Answer 7

You could make new candles or use them to hold pillar candles. You could keep them to make gifts with. Like a friend of mine (those she used mason jars) mixed up cookie mixes, and things like that. Those were gifts one year. You could use them to hold bath salts. All kinds of things.

Answer 8

You could always do what I do. I take and buy candle wax at my local craft store and make another candle. Or you can use it to store things in.

Answer 9

well I usualy just throw the jar away but if there was tray under it you could use it at a party as a finger food tray I use mine for shrimp

Answer 10

I have made a bank with one, where i painted it really cute and use it to put my loose change in. Another one i decorated with puppy prints and put doggy treats in it.!