Are you ready for Candletime?

Tomorrow is the first day of Candletime, a holiday with no consumer, religious, pseudo-religious, or familial obligations.

I invented Candletime three years ago as a buffer between Halloween and Thanksgiving so no one has to allow Christmas to sneak into that space. (I, personally, like to celebrate Candletime while also prepping for Advent and Christmas.) It’s a “holiday” everyone can celebrate and feel good about celebrating.

The rules are simple:

1. Candletime runs from November 1 through the night before American Thanksgiving (November 23 this year).

2. To celebrate, when you come home in the evening, light as many candles as you’d like to to make your living space feel sparkly and cozy.

3. Take some time to sit and enjoy the candles, and enjoy a beverage of your choice, such as hot cocoa, wine, beer, cider, mulled wine, hot cider, tea, coffee, Irish coffee, Bailey’s, or milk.

4. Relax.

Who’s in? We start tomorrow night, but you can jump in whenever you’re ready.

14 thoughts on “Are you ready for Candletime?”

I like this so much. Last year, I called it Advent Advent. I’m going to practice the quietness more this year, and save the real Advent prep work for the week after your Thanksgiving and the first of December. Thank you for the reminder.

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We are so in! and the we extend the invitation to anyone coming by… if our candles are lit come on in (to chaos) and we will sit down and chill for a visit!

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Oooh, I love this. We are going to have to do it.

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We’re in too. The clocks went back yesterday in the UK, but we’re still unseasonably warm in London. So it’s on with the candles by 5PM. Totally dark out by then.

My daughter now nearly 4 is really enjoying choosing different candles this year, and loved seeing the honey bee exhibition so lots of beeswax candles in the drawer for Candletime.

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I am starting Candle Time tonight! I won’t get any trick-or-treaters so I might as well get a jump on things. Also, I was not able to enjoy Candle Time last year; I was getting ready to move, so every night after work, I was packing! No time to relax. Now that I’m all settled in, I can ENJOY!

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