In an emergency I know that I will want light. When I was in college someone ran in to the telephone pole outside my apartment complex late one night. Due to this, we lost all power in many of the apartments near mine and since it was night time we didn’t have any natural light either. It was pretty dark in our apartment.
We had made friends with a lot of the other students living in the complex and since I had a simple 72 hour kit that included some pretty big candles, some matches, as well as a bunch of batteries for large flashlights everyone came over to our place and we hung out throughout the evening until the power came back on. I was the only one prepared for such an emergency and I was so grateful I was.
I have always believed in being prepared, but now that I am responsible for a larger area than my college apartment I want to have candles that will last longer and that can light a bigger area. As it turns out, Crisco burns :), which means you can store cans of Crisco for two reasons: One in case you need light you can turn them in to candles, or in case you need food you can use the Crisco to cook with. It is a multifaceted emergency storage item, which I love. Depending on what you are running low on (light or food) you can use the Crisco for either of them. For the complete tutorial, click the link to make these emergency Crisco candles.
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