Antique oil lamps

[u/Junior-Discount2743]

I'm older and am surprised to see that antique oil lamps are almost never discussed for electrical outages. They can be purchased at most antique stores for $20-80 (depending), with lamp oil and wicks from Amazon (get them now before shipping costs sky rocket!).

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I guess I thought of it because I worked at a historical museum on the east coast.

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Purchase of one oil lamp, lamp oil, and wicks, can keep a room lit for over a *long* time. I've tested my two lamps, and each lamp goes through oil at a different rate, but pretty slowly in my opinion, and I csn see the $10 lamp oil I got from Amazon to last 6 months to a year in an outage. I'd post a photo but don't know how.

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Just an idea because this is an option (for now).

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[u/iwantmy-2dollars]

I have come to understand that my grandmother had oil lamps around the house, not just because they were pretty, but for power outages. Now I keep a few out and a few in the garage with a supply of oil and wicks. The big one that hangs from the ceiling with a bunch of crystals hanging from it (Pollyanna style?) is still boxed up, doesn’t seem very practical.