I like to go to auctions and find bargains. A few weeks ago I bought a boxfull of oddball items because there was one item in the box that I wanted. I loaded that box in my car and several other buys from that sale and drove home. On the way home I was near choking from an extremely obnoxious potent sweet smell in the car that was NOT pleasant. In fact I could not wait to get home and find the cause of this odor. As soon as I got home I began to unload. That odor was coming from the oddball box. In there I found everything from tools to kitchen utensels, and a plastic bag with 4 candles. Those candles were the cause of the odor. It said "scented candles" on them. Scented (my ass), stinky is a better word. Maybe the combination of 4 different colored (probably four different scents) made it worse. All I knew is that they were not coming in the house, in fact I'd invite a skunk in the house before those candles came in.
I left them in the bag, outside my garage, near the door. The next day I got within 25 feet of the garage and could smell them already. This time I moved the bag to the rear of the garage. I sort of forgot about them until yesterday when I opened the rear window in the garage. There was that annoying odor again, and it nearly floored me. It seems the hot sun on that bag is making the odor worse.
I know, someone is going to ask me why I dont just toss them in the trash. It's because I live on a farm in the country and we have no garbage pickup. We burn it, bury it, or find another way. We can take recycleable cans and bottles to a certain place, which is only open on certain days and hours, and quite honestly I dont have time for that nonsense, since they are only open about 3 hours a week. I just haul all the aluminum cans and anything else they will buy, to the metal recyclers once a year, and try to find places for other containers. (like friends who live in the city's garbage cans). Everything else gets burned.
Anyhow, I now have these stinky candles, and I really want them gone. The thought occurred to suffer that odor long enough in my car, back to town, and drop them in the garbage barrel at the gas station, or just toss them out the window onto the highway and risk a fine for littering. But I really dont want them in my car again. Burying them on some distant place on my acreage comes to mind, but I just know that either some animal will dig them up, or a plow or machinery will do it, and that odor will haunt me forever.
The last thought is burning...... I have a large pile of brush, feed bags, baling twine and other debris to burn. I could just toss them in that pile and let them burn...... But MAYBE the odor will remain????? The last thing I need is to have to smell that stink in my burn pile for the next 5 or 10 years, and that pile is near my barn......
Do you think burning will kill that odor? What else can I do?
*** Whoever invented scented candles should be SHOT by a firing squad!!!!By the way, some wild animal (probably a raccoon) ate part of one of them. I sure wish it would have ate ALL of them (and the plastic bag). But I suspect the animal died after a few bites. I know I would!!!!