There’s nothing quite like the feeling of getting excited for Hanukkah. There’s also nothing quite like the feeling of taking your menorah out of storage only to remember you never cleaned last year’s candle residue and now the wax is ferociously attached to your menorah like some sort of rainbow-colored symbiote. Not to worry! Here are seven tried-and-true methods to make sure candle wax doesn’t snuff out your Hanukkah fun.