6th annual fall fundraiser

Hand-poured candles,
100% for good.

Since 2021 the Thingelstad family has hand-poured wooden-wick candles for one weekend a year. Every candle is a $25 donation — and every dollar goes straight to causes we love.

Preorder candles → See the scents

listen for the crackle… WOODEN WICK · HAND POURED

Since 2021, together we’ve raised

$32,512

…and 100% of it went to the nonprofits below.

22Organizations supported

5Years & counting

$25Per candle · same as day one

4Things in the family

Five years of impact

The good, year by year.

Every fall the community shows up — and the candles add up. Here’s how the fundraiser has grown since we started in 2021.

$4,7572021 $5,2172022 $5,7552023 $7,0102024 $9,7732025

Candle sale Markets & events

321Candles hand-poured in 2025

73Neighbors who took part last year

+29.1%Growth over the year before

From the journal

The story behind the numbers.

All Things 4 Good posts →

Results · 2025

Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Results

The 2025 results post with the final allocation, the four supported organizations, and the tightest distribution yet.

Read post → Insights · 2025

Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Insights

Inventory, transaction, product, and payment notes from the biggest sale yet, including XL candles and lids.

Read post → Impact · 2025

Things 4 Good Five Year Impact

The five-year view of the fundraiser: charts, cumulative impact, and the community tradition taking shape.

Read post →

The 2026 sale

Mark your calendar.

One weekend, one table full of candles, and a whole lot of good. Stop by, pick your scents, and choose where your donation goes.

Save the dates

Saturday

7

November 2026

Sunday

8

November 2026

Pre-orders are picked up on Sunday. Exact hours and location go to the Candle Fundraiser list before the weekend.

Get updates →

The candle

A hand-poured, wooden-wick candle — $25 donation each. Same price it’s been every year.

Payment

However’s easiest for you. How to pay →

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Pre-orders

Ordering six or more? Add your candles and scents to our pre-order sheet and we’ll have them ready for Sunday pickup.

Scents

11 this year, from Just Crackle to Old Fashioned, and a couple of new ones we’re saving for the sale. See the lineup.

New · 6 of 6 seats left

Pour your own at Maker Night.

Six gold Maker Night candles go on the counter at the sale, each a $250 donation and a seat at an evening of pouring four candles of your own, in any scents from our library. 100% to good.

Explore Maker Night → Thursday, January 21, 2027, 6–9 p.m.

How it works

Simple, by design.

1

We make them

We gather the materials, mix and hand-pour every candle, set the wicks, and wait for them to cure — then add labels Mazie designs herself.

2

You pick yours

Come by the sale, choose your favorite scents, and pay whichever way is easiest. Each candle is a flat $25 donation.

3

You choose the good

Split your donation however you like across the four causes our family picked this year. We tally it all and send every dollar along.

Freshly poured candles curing with their wooden wicks, beside a pile of wicks and a kitchen scale

How it started

It began with a crackle.

In 2019, Jamie bought a wooden-wick candle at a local Christmas market and fell in love with the sound — that soft crackle of a tiny wood flame. So he started making his own. A few, then a few more.

He gave them as gifts, and people started asking to buy them. Rather than open a candle shop, the family landed on something better: a once-a-year sale where every dollar goes to charity.

Our family name is Thingelstad — shortened to Things. There are four of us. Four causes, every year. That’s Things 4 Good.

The four Things