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Dec. 15th, 2005 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I now have candles, oil (light olive oil, not the cloudy stuff in the squeeze bottles. Better oil=better flames) and wicks. Also a box of gelt for my office.
My holiday prep? Well, I need to give the candle chanukiah a hot water soak, and we have to discuss if we should clean out the oil cups for the disposable oil chanukiah or buy a new one. Which costs about $10, so I'm all for that.
Otherwise. Done.
ETA: I lied. There's the family Chanukah party, which means we need to buy gifts for three little boys and one little girl, plus immediate family gifts. I've already gotten a set of blue Le Crueset silicon spatulas for my mother-in-law, and Jonathan has found appropriate gifts for the others, but we need to find something for the fifteen-month-old, and I'm stumped, as usual, for Jonathan's gift.
My holiday prep? Well, I need to give the candle chanukiah a hot water soak, and we have to discuss if we should clean out the oil cups for the disposable oil chanukiah or buy a new one. Which costs about $10, so I'm all for that.
Otherwise. Done.
ETA: I lied. There's the family Chanukah party, which means we need to buy gifts for three little boys and one little girl, plus immediate family gifts. I've already gotten a set of blue Le Crueset silicon spatulas for my mother-in-law, and Jonathan has found appropriate gifts for the others, but we need to find something for the fifteen-month-old, and I'm stumped, as usual, for Jonathan's gift.
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Date: 2005-12-16 12:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 12:48 am (UTC)Also, if your own chanukiah has big enough holders, you can buy oil cups and wicks *or* prefilled oil candles. These days, a lot of chanukiyot seem designed to hold either cups or the oil candles. We like the Safe-T one, though, because the oil cups are like little shot glasses (which can also be used as a chanukiyah - line them up with a new one each night and the shamash in a candle stick.) and are therefore more stable than the little oil cups balancing on stems.
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Date: 2005-12-16 02:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 02:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 02:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 03:40 am (UTC)Gelt is English for foil covered chocolate coins given out on Chanukah. The two words have identical roots, of course, but the meaning is clear because you understood it.
On the other hand, I do agree with you about gifts for Chanukah. If I could, I'd not give anything at all (the gelt is to encourage learning, I believe.) However, I married into a family that does give gifts for Chanukah - to the children pre-high school and immediate relatives. This is why Jonathan buys most of the gifts.
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Date: 2005-12-16 03:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 02:52 am (UTC)For Jonathan... hmm. Is there a sefer that he's been wishing he could have for study purposes?
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Date: 2005-12-16 02:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 03:34 am (UTC)*It's a good book for the stage when kid wants the same book read again and again and again and... and the adult has to do at least 3-5 rounds before another book or something else can be substituted.
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Date: 2005-12-16 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-16 06:37 pm (UTC)And there you are wearing your candles again. :)
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Date: 2005-12-16 06:43 pm (UTC)Currently,