Scents For Your Home For Only Centsby Nicole Humphrey | More from this Blogger 13 Jul 2006 08:51 AM We all love walking into a room or home that smells wonderful. It's a tactic that those selling their homes use. But you want to avoid harsh scents that can be overwhelming. These are frugal ways to use scents in your home for only cents. Dollar Store Shop at the dollar store. Even discount chains and pharmacy chains have sections of candles and other scent related items. Typically the cost for a scented candle will fall at about $1.00. Some places will have larger candles for 2/$5.00. The candles will last for several burns, and when they aren't burning, they still release a scent into the air. Make Your Own One of my favorite ways to scent up the house is to cut a length of pantyhose and fill with your favorite spices. You can either use store bought spices, or utilize potpourri - homemade. Change out different scents for different time of year. For instance in the spring you might enjoy a light flower scent - like roses, lilac, or lavender, in summer you might enjoy an orange, lemon or other citrus scent, Autumn might bring with it pumpkin, berry or vanilla and at Winter/Holiday time you might enjoy a cinnamon, peppermint or pine scent. Vacuum Cleaner Bags Put some spices or powder into a vacuum cleaner bag the next time you need to vacuum. Or sprinkle some powder on the carpet, let sit for about 15 minutes and then vacuum it all up. Your home will smell awesome! Candles If you prefer a specific scent of candle, you might have multiple candles that are almost burned to the end. If they are in a glass jar, you can fill a pot on the stove top with a couple of inches of water. Place the jar inside the pot, staying nearby at all time. It should only take about 2-5 minutes to melt the wax inside the jar. Remove using a potholder and pour into a new jar. You will most likely need to purchase a new wick from the craft store for a relatively cheap amount. However, you can also pour the candle wax into an ice cube container. Allow it to harden. (spray the ice cube containers with cooking spray first for easy removal). What things do you do to create yummy scents for cents in your home? Nicole Humphrey writes articles for the Scrapbooking Blog and for the Frugal Blog. She also guest blogs on a variety of topics. You can read more of her articles by clicking here. Related Articles: Save Money With Discarded Panty Hose Five Uses For Dryer Sheets, Plus One Creative Uses for Toilet Paper Tubes And What About Those Paper Towel Tubes? Five Great Uses For Coffee Cans Learn more about Nicole Humphrey  Nicole Humphrey is a freelance writer, consultant for CTMH and a Sr. Blogger for families.com. She resides in St. Charles, Missouri with Mike and their five children and two furbabies. Relevantfrugal tags User Comments Andrea M (2525) 13 Jul 2006 10:27 AMI love my tea light wax burner. There are so many scents that can fill your house! Love it! I have about 4 or 5 of them and I normally always have at least one burning! The other thing that I love to do is mix the fragrances up. You can use mutilple scents to create a "special" fragrence. LeggsRobbins_fam (361) 13 Jul 2006 11:53 AMI showed DH the trick of putting apple cores, orange peels and a cinnamon stick or a clove or two into a pot of boiling water. He loved it so much that he decided to make it his own. Unfortunately, "his own" involves getting just a LEEETLE carried away with the spices. (We're talking half a cup of cinnamon, some chives, chili powder, and oregano.) It's pretty cute. (I actually AM LOLing as I think about it.)  Nicole Humphrey (15757) 17 Jul 2006 06:41 AMThat's pretty funny, Leggs. All those spices are bound to be interesting. Hey, at least he's creative and actually helping out! Lots of DH's don't! Community Tags candles, Decorating, environment, frugal living, frugal, holidays, home, scents, smells Discuss this article
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For about $3.00 you can purchase a ceramic wax burner from most discount stores in the candle section. You can then reuse your candles in this way. And you won't even need a wick! Plus the tea lights you need to burn this wax are so cheap - you can get a very large bag of them for around $1.00.
