Ear Candles
Over the weekend I was at the Thomases' house and they had people staying with them. Those people are Dorn and his sister Melanie (very cool people). Melanie had gone to Wild Oats and purchased these things called "ear candles". I had never heard of such a thing. Kristen and Dorn were willing to try these things- I think I will wait until I am in the privacy of my own home thanks.Here is what you do:
step 1- put the little end of this hollow gausey thing in your ear
step 2- light the other end on fire
step 3- wait
step 4- have someone else make sure that the ashes don't fall on you by cutting them off
step 5- keep waiting
step 6- pull candle thing out of ear and place burning end into water to put it out
step 7- unroll what is left of the candle thing
step 8- be totally grossed out by what came out of your ear
step 9- show everyone
step 10- compare the amount of nasty wax that came out of your ears to the amount that came out of everyone else's ears.
If you thought that Q-tips did anything- You thought wrong!
posted by Mrs. Andrea Wood @ 6/13/2005 02:48:00 PM
15 Comments:
this is gross...no thanks. :)
Sweet. I gotta find those. We'll have us an ear candle party!
Dude, I think that God gave us earwax for some purpose . . . what that purpose is I'm not too sure, but I will leave it right where it is - it's my Christian duty.
james: you sound like my mother. that is the same logic she used when she was trying to explain to me why she stopped shaving her legs!
these wax things are so cool! so are neti pots! it's like an enema for your sinuses! :)
That neti thing looks WAY more gross than the ear candle. I'm not sure that I could do that. It can't be good to have anything streaming out of you nostril that way!
i almost bought a neti pot but thought I'd probably drown myself.
the ear candle thing seems cool but i'm sure my hair would go up in flames...i'm with rebecca...
you should give us a pix of what came out of YOUR ear! yay!!
uhm... i sort of want to do this...
any portlanders with me?
By the way, I did look up these things on the internet and found a few articles that say these things are bogus, since you can burn it without sticking it in your ear and it looks the same afterwards, since it is FILLED WITH WAX.
Ear Candles
i'm with you rebecca marie. whatever tim says. i'll do ear candles and netti pots!! and shots!
tee hee.
i mean, big kid smoothies.
I am so bummed to find out that this is not as good as it seems!
Tim- you ruined my fun!
I hate ear wax and am completely grossed out when I see the ear of the person in line in front of me at the grocery store and they have a little piece of wax just sitting in their ear. EEEWWWWEE!!!!!
So that everyone knows- no matter what any study tells me- I am going to keep shaving my legs!
you like mayonnaise?
Think about this: Canada has government healthcare (dirty Socialists). The healthcare professionals don't want people using home remedies because that's money out of the governments pocket. Therefore ear candles could bring down the Canadian government so they have to spread lies about it's eneffectualness.
WebMD doesn't say anything about ear candles (though it does say that earwax is good and helpful). The next thing you know the dirty Frenchies will be saying that deoderant is bad . . . oh wait . . .
"Bonjourrrrrrrr, you cheese eating surrender monkeys!" ~Grounds Keeper Willie (the Simpsons)
"You're French Canadian?
So you're obnoxious AND dull!?"
--Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Oh wow.
i was just planning on blogging about my complete addiction to and dependance on q-tips. now i basically can't, cause anyone who reads my blog has already read it here first.
RM- we absolutely MUST ear candle. we'll have a "head lite" party...get it? i'm completely serious. i cannot stand the thought of things in my ear that shouldn't be there.
actually, i'm gonna blog about it anyways. and you all can just deal with that.
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