i almost burned my house down!
he was at the front of the house painting those STUPID windows...i had just cleaned the house and lit one of those scented oil diffusers..(the flavor was clean linen)...you know the kind where you lite a candle and the small bowl of oil sits on top of it.... anyway, i went into the bedroom to start switching my summer wardrobe to winter...(i have too many clothes and not enough closet space)...about 5 minutes later, brian walks in and screams ...''WHAT THE HELL.....'' I go running into the family room and the WHOLE thing was on fire...by the grace of GOD, it didnt start the fake flowers, the sofa or the blinds on fire..... another minute and the house would have been toast...literally. I just keep thinking that if he didnt walk in when he did, we could have lost everything....i am such an idoit....i KNOW better and yet, i left the room anyway.... DONT LEAVE THOSE THINGS ALONE, EVER!!! in fact, im not even going to use them at all, ever again! |
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| With kids and cats, I've learned we can't have those at all. So glad your house is still there.
We use vases that you stick oil in and then put stick in. They look pretty, smell good, and there's no fire. |
| Glad your ok....how scary is that??? |
| It must be going around! I got out my Halloween stuff
last night, plugged in a huge ceramic pumpkin that was my mom's. I have never had it out at my own house before, and it never occured to me to check inside it. There was a big wad of tissue paper in there, right up against the bulb. A very HOT bulb. I smelled something hot - thank goodness for my nose. I can't believe I was that careless - and I can't imagine what someone was thinking when that paper was put inside that pumpkin. (I hate to admit it was probably me since I did most of my mom's decorating!) It really makes you stop and think, and how something so simple could change your life forever! Someone must be looking out for us Darcy! Shellie |
| Did you not have enough oil in it or something? I've never heard of those bursting into flames. Do you think the ghosts were responsible? |
ButtersStotch wrote: Did you not have enough oil in it or something? I've never heard of those bursting into flames. Do you think the ghosts were responsible?
ROFL |
| How frightening! I hope you guys are ok.
I've always been very afraid of fire. It would take everything in me to even light a candle. I like to face my fears, so would really push myself to do that. Anyway, I never knew why I had this horrible fear of fires that I did...about a year before my Mom died (2001) she told me that my hair caught on fire from a sparkler my brother had and had gotten to close to my hair, on The Fourth of July when I was really young. That explained a lot. lol Anyway, fires are scary.... |
I think it was the ghosts.  |
| no, no ghosts, just stupid me....
and maybe a guardian angel.....or 2.... |
| Glad you are okay and that you had your Fireman there to come to your rescue.
Good thing he was there. But I am sure he won't let you live it down. |
Crikey I have never heard of an oil burner just bursting into flames either 
I'm so glad you are ok, was there much damage in the end? |
| some minor soot on the walls.....and listening to brian say ''now im going to have to wash the walls...''
since when has he ever washed those walls??????????? sheesh..... |
| Oh my gosh Darcy! I'm so glad everyone is alright. How terrifying! |
| All I can say is MY fireman partner would have said much worse than WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Yipes! No only would Brian have never forgiven you, but neither would your other housemates.
Glad all is well. Wash the wall and move on. Paul still likes candles at Christmas, they make me nervous. Your incident won't help. s. |
| Thank God you are ok.
I will NEVER get over the fire we had in 1994. We lived in a town house. there were 4 per building. at the road side all 4 garages were there. The fire was set in the one next to ours (ARSON) nothing we did. we had to move out store our furniture after it was cleaned. You never get over something like a home fire. 
By the way the person who did this was after the car in the next garage. We had over $45,000 in damages. Thank God for renter Insurance. We had lived there for 16 yrs. We moved 2 months later. At that time we had a craft bus. our feezer was out there, our new canoe, Richards goldwing, tools, both hanging on the walls plus all his power ones.what a mess. |
| How scary! I am glad it was not worse. Yikes! |
| Wow Darcy!
Do you think it was Deb's Robert? 
Glad you're OK. |
Ron wrote: Wow Darcy!
Do you think it was Deb's Robert? Glad you're OK. no it was just darcy's stupid.......
really really stupid....... |
| One advantage to not using candles of any sort is you won't have to repaint the inside as often. Candles are as bad as cigarettes for making the walls look dingy. |
Darcy wrote: no, no ghosts, just stupid me....
and maybe a guardian angel.....or 2.... Seriously though, what actually caught fire? Was it too close to something or did the oil start on fire? I'm just not getting how it happened. |
| Goodness Darcy that was close to your house going up in flames.
Don't feel bad, I once left rice boiling on the stove as my youngest son decided to play with a knife and sliced his finger open, blood everywhere and rushed him to the doctors and forgot about what was on the stove. Came home to a house full of smoke and just in time before the black stuff left in the pot ingnited. 
After on the way home from the doctors, I felt sick as I realised there was stuff cooking on the stove, expected to see firemen around the house when I returned. Oh and I got every red light on the way home too.  Thank goodness I got home just in time to turn it off, throw the pot in the sink and open the windows to air the house out. Smoke alarms were going crazy too. So we came close to me Burning the house down also.  |
| Darcy, Thank God your husband came in time. Where are your smoke detecters?
I'm curious too...what caught on fire? Was it the oil? Something to close to the flame? |
| I'm glad nothing worse happened! That would have scared my pants off! |
| Must be something in the air. I came home from work yesterday about 20 minutes after Todd left - he's on nights this week. Found a burnt out cigarette butt on the edge of the kitchen counter - burn track in the countertop..... |
Yikes!! How frightening!! Just glad it turned out okay.  |
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