Are you prepared for electric outages?  How about a candle as a part of the emergency kit in the car if  you live in cold climes?   All you need is an old cotton (100%) T-shirt, olive oil, malleable wire and a short canning jar and lid!  Oh yes, and a lighter!  HaHa!

Cut an 18 inch long and 1 inch wide strip of T-shirt material.  Start twisting in the middle of the strip until in curls upon itself. (Put loop on top and hold intersection in place with thumb and index finger)  Twist bottom part of strip till tight and cross over the top and hold with other hand.  Continue doing this until you run out of material.  You should end up with about an 8 inch cord!  It should look like the picture above.

Cut a long piece of wire and twist around the looped end of the cord several times.  (Not too tightly because you will need to move the cord upwards as it burns!)  Keep some extra to lift the cord out of the container.  Coil remaining wire to raise the cord up and to stabilize in the container. ( I would ring the bottom of the container with wire to stabilize.)

Put apparatus in the container and pour oil to the rim of the bottom rung of the lid rings and expose about 1/2 inch of the cord on top.  Wait a while until the oil saturates the cord.

Light with a lighter.  It may take a while to burn the oil off first.  Eventually, you'll need to "trim the wick" by moving the cord up and cutting off the burnt parts.  Folks, I had it burning for 5 hours and didn't notice any perceivable difference in the length of the wick burned or the oil level!  Although I used grapeseed oil, olive oil is less viscous, and you want the oil to be almost as thin as water.  The thinner, the easier the cotton will absorb the oil.

 Once you had enough light, blow it out and screw on the lid.  Easy storage and no spills!  By the way, if you knock over the container, all you will have is a oily mess.  The cotton is the only burning part! 

Use your own creativity in what type of container you would like to use.  Here are some examples!  Feel great that you can make your own oil candles and be prepared for emergencies!  A Hui Hou! ( Until we meet again!)