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I remember my grandmother having a candlestick and candle, plus matches, by the bed in each bedroom in case of power failure. We were fascinated. My father always had a pack of candles on a shelf in the garage when we were kids (the tall one, up high, a way from children where often our medicine was put when we got a bottle of antibiotic from the doctor) and now it is kept somewhere in a cupboard in the kitchen. I have votives around the place, but I also (like others who have responded here) have a torch in each room; one in the living area (a solar powered one that keeps itself topped up) and one by my bed. I also always carry a small torch in my rucksack, and have had to use that in anger as the power often knocked out when I am staying with garienos when they get thunder storms round here.