My name is Will DeFries and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast.

You are cure for the Sunday Blues.

Well, we've made it.

Today's are shorter yet they feel a little bit longer.

We can use dry January as the perfect excuse to stay in doing nothing.

With no major holidays in sight, we have all the reason in the world to cozy up on the

couch watching anything from our streaming platform of choice.

But the best part about the dog days of winter, well, it's officially candle burning season

in a big way.

In my mid 20s, I always did my best to avoid going out during January, February and March.

Being the quietest time of the year for me socially, it only made sense for me to look

forward toward those little rewards at the end of a long work day.

An unhealthy meal for dinner, a nip of whiskey on the couch, but especially burning a nice

scented candle on my bedside table.

At that time, my scented candle budget wasn't much.

In fact, my go-to move was using old scented candles I'd get from work that were used

as samples.

With too much dust along the top of the candle, these would often get thrown away in favor

of new samples that companies would send in.

Is this how it became addicted to scented candles?

Honestly, probably.

But that doesn't take away from how good it felt to burn something out of my price range

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