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Pumpkin Spice Candles

Title (Dublin Core)

Pumpkin Spice Candles

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

One thing that captures a sensory memory that relates to the COVID-19 pandemic for me is candles, specifically pumpkin spice candles. My wife and myself, like many other people, spent the majority of 2020 shut inside our home. Prior to this pandemic, we would often go out 3-4 nights a week. Nothing crazy, of course. Dinner, bowling, movie, etc. Typical married couple dates. However, once we were shut inside our house, we had to find other little things to occupy our time so we wouldn’t go stir crazy. My wife started buying a lot of scented candles from Amazon, and her favorite was pumpkin spice. I swear, my apartment smelled like pumpkin spice from about April of 2020 to January of 2021. The scent helped her relax, and it made me happy to know that she was finding ways to keep herself settled and centered. Now, whenever I’m out somewhere and catch a scent of pumpkin, I think of the two of us trapped in the apartment but working together to make the whole experience into a positive. I know that this is probably more of a sentimental story than what we were supposed to write, but this is what first came to my mind when I saw this assignment.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 1, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Justin Bailey

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Justin Bailey

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

pumpkin spice
candle
scent
memory
sentimental
coping
relaxation
lockdown
Arizona State University
HST 643
marriage

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Arizona State University
HST 643
Sensory History

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/17/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/20/2021
3/29/2022
06/27/2023

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 17, 2021 by Justin Bailey using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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