/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I have a suggestion for anyone who wants to burn incense but is paranoid of it lighting something on fire, and it looks cool to boot (particularly for witchy/gothy aesthetics)

You get an old church candle holder like this one (I found this in a vintage shop for a few bucks), and fill the bottom with an inch or two of sand. Then just take the incense stick and stick it upright in the stand and light it. Any embers or ash that fall get put out by the sand at the bottom, and it's totally enclosed so it's not going to light anything around it. I change the sand in mine every few weeks just to keep it fresh. You could probably use very small pebbles or something like that in place of the sand.

It's pretty basic but I was proud of my little discovery