Freezing the Candle, Does it Work?

It's another pinterest test people!
I love cleaning out my old candles and using the containers to store things. The Bath and Body works candles are especially pretty because they just have a clean look to them. So I was super excited to finally finish one of my three-wick candles because I could finally use one of their containers!
I had been seeing on pinterest that if you freeze a candle for an hour, you can use a dull knife to get the wax out, then pry the wicks off the bottom and clean it and you'd get a nice clean jar, ready to be used for all your storage needs.
So, I took my happy butt to our kitchen, popped that baby in the freezer and then promptly forgot about it. Until Cody went to the gym about three hours later. So, while he was gone, I went and got the candle and a butter knife (hello, dull?) and started trying to get the wax out.
First off, the dull knife was not doing it, so I grabbed Cody's super sharp switch blade knife. That did much better, until this happened:

That's right. I was almost done getting all the wax out. The end was in site! Then that happened. I was so mad. I had already nearly risked my fingers and everything else trying to get this wax out of the candle. It was not simple.

I was expecting to run the knife around the outside of the wax to let it separate from the candle sides and then it would pop out like a disk.

Uh, no. Not happening, apparently.

I didn't even try to fix it. I was too mad. I will not be using this "freezer method" again. I will definitely be using my old method which is when I'm burning the candle all the way to the bottom, I pour all the already melted wax into a red solo cup, wait for it to harden and toss it in the trash. It seems much safer and works so much better! I've already got another candle ready to be made into a makeup brush holder using that method!

Do you reuse old candle jars? What method do you use to get the wax out of the bottom?

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