The Bath & Body Works Candle Sale Craziness

So, okay, Bath & Body Works has this candle sale every year in December. Their $24.95 3 wick candles drop down to a low price. Last year they were 8.95 and this year they were $9.50. Most years I shop the sale online. And if you do this, you MUST get on when the sale starts, which is normally 11 PM EST. Candles go fast. If you shop online though, you can't use any other coupons, plus you have to pay for shipping.

I wanted to save more, so I decided to go to the store. I mean, they built one 5 minutes from me.


Stores open EARLY. Mine opened at 5 AM; I heard others opened at 4 AM. I got there right at 5 AM.

I'm kidding.

I'm not about to wake up at the ass crack of dawn for candles, sorry. They are pretty decent candles, but not wake-up-at-5-AM candles.

If you want a specific scent, then yes, get there early.

If you aren't as picky, get there at 9 AM like I did.

Yes there was a line to get inside the store, but it moved quickly. I waited maybe 10 minutes and the workers out front were incredibly polite.

The store was a bit crowded, but not uncomfortably so. Well. My husband would say it was too crowded for him, but he's a military cop who freaks out if people are behind him, so...

Also, a lot of men don't get the candle sale. My husband didn't. He kept saying, "What, a candle sale? Why?"

And some men in the store would be like, "What's with these scent names? How do you know what to get? Debbie, what about this merlot one? No? What do you mean you need the scent to smell clean? Could you just pick some out so we can get in line and go?"

Honestly, leave the men at home if they don't get it. I left my husband at home.

Some scents were gone. I heard one lady ask about a strawberry shortcake flavor and the worker said that one was gone by 6 AM, and they had a TON, but this one family bought up nearly their entire stash. Okay then.

Also leaves seemed to be a popular scent, that one was also gone.

But I still found a bunch that I liked. And some that cleared my sinuses. Like:

It smelled like burnt hot cocoa to me. Not my taste. And the Rome scent was pizza, which threw me off.

I was like this:

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE pizza, but not in candle form.



It took a bit to find the candles I liked. I was like this Baby Yoda:

I decided on 5 candles, because I was going to use my $15 off $40 coupon:

If you're lucky, you get coupons in the mail. I used to not, but suddenly I did. Maybe because a store opened 5 minutes from my house.

You might be wondering how to transport all those candles. They give you a candle holder when you enter the store:

And yes, the line to check out was wrapped around the store BUT there were 6 cashiers so it moved fast.

Would I shop in store again? Yup. It wasn't overly chaotic. No one was hoarding all the candles (well, I guess except that family who took all the strawberry shortcake ones) and everyone had manners. (Except the husbands who didn't seem to get what was happening. "Seriously, these candles aren't that great," I overhead another one say. "But my wife is obsessed I guess.")


So which ones did I get?


These:

I am a sucker for the pumpkin scents. The others just smelled nice to me. Some I'm keeping; others will be gifts for teachers and friends.


So do you shop the Bath & Body Works candle sale?