Shopping in Xenia

While the world's bees are busy staving off invasions of varroa mites and colony collapse, today's deal will make sure you don't have to suffer a shortage of sweet-smelling candle wax. For $6, you'll get one regularly priced 100% vegetable-based soy-wax candle from Paul Robinett (a $13 value). Your Groupon is good for both in-store and online. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

When you think of places known for fashion, a tight clique of hot spots comes to mind—Paris, Milan, whatever city Labyrinth took place in, and Columbus, Ohio. Today's deal gets men and women the best of the latter: for $29, you get $60 of "clothing for fashionable savages" at Milk Bar in Short North. Milk Bar is single-handedly putting America's heartland on the style map, using those big colorful push pins to reveal an ominous houndstooth pattern. The store's impressive collection of independent and contemporary brands, along with its laid-back, holistic approach to fashion, gave Columbus Alive no choice but to name the establishment Best New Store in 2009. Prices and selection in-store may vary from online (this Groupon is valid for in-store only). Parking is free.

Cereal box sides recommend that you absorb no more than 20 ounces of falutin per day to properly maintain internal homeostasis. Today's deal helps you stick to said dietary guidelines: for $25, you get $60 worth of down-to-earth apparel and design workshops at Substance for Fashion Conscious People, LLC. in Short North. You can buy up to three Groupons and combine them in one purchase, meaning $75 would get you $180 to spend on anything at the store, including sale items.

Candle Lab's candles use soy wax, cotton paper wicks, and pure fragrance oils so that they burn cleanly and evenly for up to 60 hours. Choose from more than 120 gourmet flavors including Tupelo honey, fresh linen, toasted marshmallow, bamboo, wild orchid, and burnt sugar. Seasonal specialties such as mulled cider, hazelnut, and autumn leaves are still in stock (candles usually cost $15). This Groupon is also good toward Candle Lab's hand-stamped greeting cards, bath and body products, and other home-fragrance products.

At Herbs & Spice, mad cooks are sure to find whatever concoction they need to complete their meat-reanimation experiments among the sprawling cornucopia of spices and spice-related merchandise. The shop is also home to owner and longtime spice aficionado Colonel De Stewart's line of hand-blended spices, Colonel De Ray, watched over by the mustachioed Colonel himself, both in the flesh and on a hand-painted sign hanging above the spice counter. Always ready with recommendations drawn from a lifetime of cooking experience, not to mention the all-knowing tapeworm curled up in his ear, the Colonel will happily act as your jungle guide through more than 500 herbs and spices.

Owners Josh and Niki Quinn originally opened the bustling boutique in 2007 to introduce modish shoppers to their own fashion line, Maxine, Dear, which has been carried by Bergdorf Goodman, Fred Segal, and other stores around the world. They have since expanded to include a diverse and refreshing variety of modern designs for men and women. Ladies can adorn themselves with jewelry such as a vintage Ohio plate necklace ($36) or a more mathematically minded green abacus necklace ($26), while laddies can add a hipster-friendly classiness to formal outfits with men's accessories such as wheat penny cufflinks ($18) or a blue-enamel skinny tie clip ($18). Tigertree also features belt buckles from their own Maxine, Dear line at an in-store discount ($23). For a status symbol that can also help you pass the time on long bus rides, buy a book. Niki's favorite is Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle ($15), while a copy of The Art of Manliness ($16.99) will let women know what they've been doing wrong.