"Just in case," as well as until you can walk about at night with reasonable certainty that you're not going to have (or cause) any mishaps (to you or to wardrobes or other things---dishes come to mind, as breakables---respectively), do you have either "hurricane" candlesticks; or oil lamps ("paraffin," I think you call them); or, although these are just about useless for task lighting, they're all right for allowing you to navigate the room, vegetable oil lamps, the Roman/Greek/Biblical lamps of antiquity?
One of the nicest aspects of the vegetable oil lamp is that if it should tip or spill, the oil itself will douse the flame. (You can give the wick material a tug and pull the lit end of it under the oil and *ssppffft!* it's snuffed out. Can't do that with lamp oil or paraffin lamps, as that fuel is a petroleum distillate with a comparatively low flash point.
In quite a lot of the U.S., your rent would be dirt cheap for even a studio apartment (one main room incorporating the kitchen; no separate bedroom and often not even a
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One of the nicest aspects of the vegetable oil lamp is that if it should tip or spill, the oil itself will douse the flame. (You can give the wick material a tug and pull the lit end of it under the oil and *ssppffft!* it's snuffed out. Can't do that with lamp oil or paraffin lamps, as that fuel is a petroleum distillate with a comparatively low flash point.
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