Passover being long gone, and a few months remaining until we get to the other major Jewish Holidays, Safeway is clearing out some of their 'ethnic' items. I stocked up on some matzoh, and saw that they had a few boxes of Shabbos candles on the 50% off shelf.
Nothing fancy about them...just a plain white candle...about 3.5 inches by 3/4 of an inch. Rated to burn for 3 hours. This compares them to 7.62 X 39 rounds(look...now my post is vaguely gun related!)
A box of 72 was on sale for $6, which is....let's see...carry the one..and we get...$17 just over 8 cents a candle. My wife had picked up some emergency candles at the dollar for for about 20 cents a pop...so, this was a pretty good deal. I picked up two boxes, which with the Chanukah candles we bought on clearance last year, and a bag of tea-lights I found on clearance at Fred Meyers gives us well over 400 candles stored in the house.
I think they had two more boxes on the shelf I might pick up if they are still there next time I hit the store.
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