After we’ve made hundreds of candles for the Candle Fundraiser it is fun to casually pour a bunch of individual scents to try out. Ten scents poured tonight for the 2025 Scent Survey.
Things 4 Good
Updates on our family’s candle‑making fundraiser for charity. I share insights on costs and materials, celebrate the growing impact and donations raised over four years, and invite readers to help us choose new scents.
Burning this many wooden wick candles at once is actually pretty noisy — so much crackle! 😮
Things 4 Good Five Year Impact
We’ve now done our Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for five years. With the amazing support of this community we have raised $31,787 for non-profits! Thank you so much. This year was an incredible jump from last year selling 321 candles! ❤️ Last year we did the first day of the …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Things 4 Good Five Year ImpactThings 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Insights
We have wrapped up the 5th annual Candle Fundraiser. I’m proud to say that we raised $9,048 in donations! That is a $2,000 jump (29.1%) from last year’s results. Amazing! Last year we made 252 candles and we sold out on Sunday. This year we sold 321 candles and only had 10 …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser InsightsThings 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Results
We completed our annual candle sale raising $9,048 for the four organizations we picked! That is a 29.1% increase from 2024, topping the growth of previous years at 21.8, 9.7, and 10.3%. A huge thank you to the 73 folks from this community who made this possible by purchasing a …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser ResultsRealized we had some big usability issues in our donation tracking sheets for day 1 of Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser (right side). I designed a complete redo of it for today’s sale (middle) that I tested this morning and is much better. I also created a candle guide to include with the candles! 🤩
We are ready to host our fifth annual Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser today! We are supporting Animal Welfare Institute, Border Angels, The Food Group, and Sandy Hook Promise this year.
Making more candles for the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for next week! I got the labels a little faster so we can put those on before pouring making it a bit more efficient. ⏱️
Making Things 4 Good candles!
