{"id":443,"date":"2025-10-19T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/?p=443"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:19:32","slug":"reporters-found-danish-woman-who-saved-e17000-by-not-purchasing-ikea-candles-each-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/10\/reporters-found-danish-woman-who-saved-e17000-by-not-purchasing-ikea-candles-each-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporters Found Danish Woman Who Saved \u20ac17,000 by Not Purchasing IKEA Candles Each Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Copenhagen, Denmark<\/strong> \u2014 Reporters have identified a Danish woman who saved \u20ac17,000 by consistently refusing to buy candles during her regular IKEA visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media, the woman, 43-year-old Anne Rasmussen from Odense, began tracking her spending habits in 2012. Since then, she has visited IKEA stores more than 300 times but never purchased a single candle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her story gained attention after financial bloggers shared her budgeting spreadsheet on social media. The case has since drawn commentary from consumer analysts across Scandinavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts from the <em>University of Copenhagen\u2019s Department of Economics<\/em> said her example reflects \u201ca growing culture of minimalism in Nordic households.\u201d They noted that small, repeated purchases like candles often lead to unnoticed financial loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasmussen said she likes IKEA\u2019s design but finds candles unnecessary. \u201cThey burn fast and add nothing to my home budget,\u201d she told <em>DR News<\/em> (<a>dr.dk<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IKEA Denmark confirmed the customer\u2019s long purchasing history but declined to comment on individual spending behavior. A spokesperson said the company supports \u201cany customer\u2019s financial responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen, Denmark \u2014 Reporters have identified a Danish woman who saved \u20ac17,000 by consistently refusing to buy candles during her regular IKEA visits. According to local media, the woman, 43-year-old Anne Rasmussen from Odense, began tracking her spending habits in 2012. Since then, she has visited IKEA stores more than 300 times but never purchased&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[75,74],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-denmark","tag-ikea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}