Learning something new everyday!
NEW library date stamp 2018 - 2026 teacher office scrapbook retro mechanical rubber stamper wedding stationery supply, available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things
Here is the note I received:
What a perfect stamp! We are using it to addend my wedding "crash cards" (guests can come drink and dance with us after all the formal wedding things) which somehow made it through multiple proofs with out our wedding date on them! This stamp is great!
It's still so fun to help people out, especially wedding couples, even if it is in such a tiny big way as supplying a date stamp. Tiny help as this humble supply, big help in the way of such an important date to announce! And I learned something new too! Thanks for explaining "crash cards!"
Each month is abbreviated with three letters with the day of the month on the left and year on the right of the month. Most have at least 5 years of life in them, if not more, from 2018 to 2026 available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things
Saying Goodbye: This is photo of my date stamp from around 2013. It's now a stock photo! lol. Has it really been 5 years, since I started dehoarding? Time flies, once I started letting go! It wasn't easy at first, but five years later, I now can let go of my hoard painlessly!
When I was a teacher, Thank God I'm retired now! these were not so easy to come by and it was a great teacher tool I used everyday! I used 3 or 4 of them in the classroom, one for my desk, another for the teacher helpers who graded papers, like homework and spelling tests, a third one to pass around the classroom, especially in the beginning of the year, to remind students to remember their name and date on all papers, especially with daily journal writing. Sustained Silent Writing is what it was called when I was teaching. And lastly, a spare for when other teachers borrowed it, especially during field trip slip time or for when one got lost or borrowed but never returned.
So when I found a hoard of these, 5 years ago, I could not pass these up!!!!, even though I wasn't teaching anymore. I know, I know, it was something as a recovering hoarder I needed to work out of my system, luckily these are quite popular at our shops for writers, office billing personnel, artists, journal keepers, book clubs who let their friends borrow books library style and even chicken farmers who use it to stamp write on their eggs, so you know how fresh they are!
How would you use this date stamp?
I like how the handle has one flat side, so it's less likely I'll stamp a date upside down!
NEW library date stamp 2018 - 2026 teacher office scrapbook retro mechanical rubber stamper wedding stationery supply, available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things
What I Learned:
1. I can honestly say 5 years ago, my hoard was leaving too fast and now it's not leaving fast enough! That's a lot of improvement for me! I've made a lot of progress in five years. I can now throw items into the recycling bin, donate a bag or two each month to thrift stores and keep an eye out for those in need who would be happy to give my hoard new lives, like inner city schools, single mother shelters and community libraries.
2. As a recovering hoarder, it's taken 5 or so years to get comfortable with letting things go without any anxiety, which sounds like a long time, but it's taken me 45 years to build up this hoarding habit, so I'm happy and thankful that I've found other alternatives to relieve stress, one of the best ones being meditation and have changed my retail therapy habit and reshaped my thinking!
3. I've even started to think, well, only twice that I can remember now.... maybe it's best if I just throw everything out and start all over! Then I start to sort out my hoard to do that and I start prioritizing. But one day, maybe I will, it's all in the baby steps in actions and thinking.
4. I've started a new diet or eating life style or whatever they call it now a days, I was raw vegan for 2 years, then a vegetarian, then a vegetarian who made traditional Sunday dinners every Sunday and now I'm trying the Keto diet. I started off with Dr. Mercola's Keto Diet book from the library a couple of months ago.
It seems like the totally opposite of vegetarian life style, but my health has improved so much and I'm much happier eating the foods I love! I thought I'd be eating a lot of bacon, but I guess my body needed butter and cream or Vitamin A from fat soluble and not vegan, I use a little heavy whipping cream with a lot of full fat coconut milk in my keto coffee with a tablespoon of butter and even a dash of salt. That keeps me fueled for most of the day and my eating window is from 3 pm to 8 pm.
I still can't get to sleep if I don't have a bed time snack. I'm working on it, but I'd rather be eating than not sleeping. I used to get bad cravings for fried chicken and french fries, GONE! All my cravings are gone! I don't eat sugar, maybe a piece of fruit with cheese for dessert every once in awhile. I still eat only organic, gluten free, soy free and sugar free and one day I hope to overturn all my allergies!
Lots of other improvements too, the ones I can remember at the moment are eating a whole lot less with lots more energy. My memory has improved and so has my attention span and I no longer need a salty snack at 3 pm to keep me awake!
5. I've been reading and studying more and more lately too, so I haven't been blogging as much. I've also been taking long walk in open spaces more. Hoping both will become daily habits.
If I remember, I'll have to take a photo of my date stamp because it doesn't look like the above anymore! but it still stamps really well!
NEW library date stamp 2018 - 2026 teacher office scrapbook retro mechanical rubber stamper wedding stationery supply, available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things
Thank you Etsy buyer from The DestinyofThings for taking the time to share your story during your "busy, getting ready" for wedding time and for explaining "crash card." Congratulations and Best Wishes to you both!
Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy! I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.
I've been spending more time in my junk room and I can see progress, but since the sudden death in my family, I've been looking for that special something from that relative in my hoard of hoards and realizing I still have a lot to clear out! More on that later too!
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever! And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!
It looks like I started using this stamp on June 2, 2013. I mainly use it for "thank you" packaging notes I send with each order, but also for my art.
NEW library date stamp 2018 - 2026 teacher office scrapbook retro mechanical rubber stamper wedding stationery supply, available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things
I am still new listing weekly on all the shops, although I'm doing so more slowly due to a sudden family death. I still hope to reach my goal of 180 items listed on each shop. I am happy and thankful to say every time I reach my goal at 1-2 shops, something finds a new life and home!
Sales had slowed down a bit, but I think they'll pick up again right before Valentine's day. Since the beginning, I've always experimented with my shops and I've started a new experiment that I call, "Kindful Profits." I've tried 3 different times already with one success story, hope to explain more in an upcoming post.
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 181 items, The Destiny of Things- 176 items, VintageToGoEasy - 175 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 180 items.
Yipee! I've met my goal at two shops! And have to get going on the other two! Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
Some of my washi tape art with the date stamped on the back.
SALE washi tape abstract geometric collage original art card: handmade 4x6 quilter art birthday Gee's Bend style quilt postcard Valentine's by Hoarder Rehab, available here
photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
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1. Date stamping your fresh eggs story, here
2. Mechanical Date Stamper 2016 for Mixed Media Art & Mini Signs: The Destiny of Things, Story 364 & 365
3. A kindergarten teacher saving time using this date stamper, here! A "destiny as infinity" story!
4. For scrapbooks, Mechanical Rubber Date Stamper: The Destiny of Things, Story 19
3. A kindergarten teacher saving time using this date stamper, here! A "destiny as infinity" story!
4. For scrapbooks, Mechanical Rubber Date Stamper: The Destiny of Things, Story 19
Back of Butterfly Meadows, available here
photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. ---Mahatma Gandhi
Thank you readers from all over the world who continue to support my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things by taking part with your visits!
