tealight
tea light

Better quality tealight cups are made from polycarbonate .

Holders have an appropriately sized cup to use a tealight candle, either scented or unscented.

A large crystal of natural salt is hollowed out and heated with a tealight or lightbulb.

Kivi tealight holder, £9.50, by Iittala, from Skandium.

Other miscellaneous items include durable, lightweight luggage, MP3/digital audio player cases, ocarinas, computer cases, riot shields, instrument panels, tealight candle containers and blender jars.

Her magazine suggests: "Welcome family and neighbours by lighting pathways with tealight garden lanterns, LED light sticks and fairy lights wrapped round tree trunks or branches."

Tap into the healing benefits of crystals with votives try a Himalayan Salt Votive ($49 for a set of three) or Quartz Tealight Holder ($39).

Heat-providing tealight candles in safe candle holders, wind-up torches, phone chargers, portable radios (for traffic and weather reports), foldable shovels and wellies in the boot are imperative too, along with reflective safety wear.

If you can't run to exquisite throws and Illums Bolighus photoframes, content yourself with tasteful tealight holders from Granit (Thorvald Meyers Gate 55, 0047 22 35 13 34, granit.com).

Tealights may be distinguished from nightlights by the duration of burning: a tealight usually burns for 3 to 5 hours but a nightlight, which is larger, is intended to burn for a whole night (about 8 to 10 hours).

Nick-nacks that mean the world to you will put off a buyer, so souvenir tealight holders bought in India and tin soldiers from childhood should be tidied into a memory box, "a time capsule to keep in a cupboard".

A tealight (also written tea-light, tea lites or tea light, t-lite or tcandles), or nightlight, is a candle encased in a thin metal or plastic cup so that the candle can liquefy completely while lit.