Or walks across a cream carpet carrying a dripping red candle.
It hurts my hate of waste, but I think the candle (very large, melted as left it near the woodburner) is going to have to go in the bin in case I forget and do it again next year. Once the tree lights go off, I light candles near the woodburner until it's time to light the fire. The red one I forgot to blow out and the heat made it tip sideways all over the brickwork. I picked it up and raced it to the kitchen, not realising that I had red wax dripping all down my jeans (can't get that out either) all over the carpets and the kitchen tiles. Only the kitchen has recovered so far.