With today’s difficult economy, many people are having trouble paying their utility bills, especially the electric bill when they need lights to see at night, although many people watch television in the dark.

Several families have come up with a solution to their electric light problem and that is to have a candle only at night and no electricity in which they use candles to light up the house and play board games and make it into a family fun night without computers, televisions or electrical gadgets of any kind.  A candle, depending on its size, can produce a lot of light when grouped together with other candles, enough to light up a room fairly well and if your house has a fireplace, all the better for saving on big utility bills for that evening.

Additionally, candles are not only for the romantic set, candles can be spread out throughout the house, or throughout the room the family will be occupying for the evening in order to get enough light for children to do their homework, parents to read, or for the entire family to engage in a family fun night of board games or card playing.

A countless number of people enjoy the smell from scented candles as a therapeutic and relaxing atmosphere such as aromatherapy candles in which the scents from different candles heighten different senses and help to relax the people who smell them.

Aromatherapy candles can help a number of ailments simply by burning them and having the person who is suffering continually smell the burning candle until their pain has been relieved.  For example, peppermint is known as a pain reliever and burning a peppermint candle will help calm and soothe a person who is in pain; lavender is an analgesic and has calming and soothing properties which helps headaches, insomnia, depression, stress and nausea.

So if you find yourself stressed about your electric bill, you might take a few nights and use lavender scented candles for aromatherapy that will help relieve your stress and lessen your utility bills by lighting the way with a natural resource and the way the settlers did hundreds of years ago.