Hence the bleach.

Move over Martha Stewart and Martha Stewart-wannabes who rushed in to fill the Martha Stewart void after she mysteriously left the scene for a little while there -- there's a new home guru in the House. (Me.)

Today's topic is how to make your room smell nice using a Yankee Candle and the laws of physics. You know those candle-warmers that plug into an outlet and heat your jar candles without you having to light one? Well, my mom has one and this one time left it on all night with a Sugar Cookie Yankee Jar Candle on it, and the whole family woke up demanding yellow cake with chocolate icing, because we're not really a sugar cookie family and it really did smell like yellow cake. And the wick of the candle sank into waxy oblivion.

How do you avoid this problem? Well, one, don't use candles that smell like food. Second, if you take a sampler candle and stick it on the hot air vent on the floor -- you don't even have to unwrap it -- the candle will be warmed slightly and its scent will be projected through the room. My suggestion is an elegant solution to the candle-warmer problem, because it doesn't get warm enough to actually melt the candle and uses only sporadic heat. (Although, for liability purposes, I insist that you check the candle every two minutes while the heat is running to make sure it's not on fire.)