Stuff Swedish people like.. Candles!

Walking into a Swedish persons home, you would be forgiven if the first thought that crossed your mind was how uninformed you were about Swedens rolling blackouts. With all the candles about in a Swedes home you would be quite within your right to rule out the candles being there for purely aesthetic reasons, hence the thought of regular power outages. Upon closer scrutiny though, with some innocently phrased questions, you realize you were not in fact missinformed about Swedens electricity generating capacity. Swedish people just like candles.

People in all countries, were candles are easily and cheaply available, will have a number of candles in their house. Most will have a few stashed in a drawer for those nights of a romantic dinner, relaxed lighting for a bath or a random storm that knocks out your electricity supply once a year for a few hours. Swedes on the hand, will have candles lit at all times and for all occasions, like a normal weekday.

This love for candles that Swedes display makes it a no brainer for buying presents, don't know what to get, can't think of anything original, just buy some candles, you will be loved immediately.