World Globe Key Chains: The Destiny of Things, Story XLII

GLobe World Key Chains:  The Destiny of Things, Story XLII

I received two interesting, yet different stories about these world globe key chains.  Remember opening these lever kinds?  I seemed to damage a nail everytime!

I don't know if you can see them, but there's little airplanes and ships and travel paths for them!

My first snail mail "Destiny of Things" story from Madison of Florida!  Thank you Madison, what a welcome surprise it is to get something in snail mail that's not a bill or junk mail!  I am ecstatic!  Thank you for taking the time to write and express the gratitude and happiness the globe key chains brought you and your family!

She bought these to give to her Grandmother, mother and aunts as Christmas gifts.  I think she was short one for an aunt and herself, so I'm mailing her some more with my "thank you" letter.  Will take better pics of both this weekend, so they are more readable on super sized!

The other story through email is different! It's about someone who can't travel as much as they like because they are devoted to rescuing 7 dogs and 4 cats! Now that's a whole lot of love, dedication and sacrifice!  Thank you for sharing parts of your day and contributing to my HoarderRehab journey!

Kennedy Miranda

January 24 2013 5:34pm EDT

Invoice: www.etsy.com/your/orders/77721142

Hi Jennifer!

Thank you for your order! If there is a story behind this purchase, I'd love to know it! I am collecting these stories, instead of more things and documenting it on my blog to see if it helps me end my hoarding ways this time around!

I already have one story about these globes! One girl bought them for stocking stuffers for her traveling family and will use hers after she graduates from college, since her grandmother said she'd take her anywhere after she grads! How will you use them? Sorry, I'm so curious!

Anyways, your globes will be shipped out tomorrow! I hope you enjoy them.

Thank you again for ordering some of my Hoarder History and bringing me closer to my dream of a minimalist organic home with a music art room, instead of the hoarded up storage room.

Best regards,
~Kennedy at
Vintagetogoetsy
HoarderRehab
The Destiny of Things
hoarderrehab.blogspot.com/

Jennifer

13 hours ago

HI Kennedy: I don't really have a story, I just love to collect Globes, I am always on the look out for something a little different. We don't get to travel much, since we do a lot of dog rescue. Currently we have 7 dogs and 4 dogs. So that pretty much keeps us at home. I do display all my globes on 6 floor to ceiling shelves in our living room. It's an older home and came with these shelves--so I am filling them up!!

Thanks so much. Have a great evening.

Jennifer

Kennedy

13 hours ago

HI Jennifer!

That's a great story! It's like the opposite of the other story I received. 7 dogs and 4 cats!!! That's amazing! That's a big sacrifice and passion that you and your husband have to be able to rescue dogs and cats. Kudos to you and your husband and the lucky dogs and cats!

Thank you for your story and I will use it exactly as you wrote it for my blog. I would love to see your globe collection! Your home with built ins sounds inspirational with the dogs and cats in it!

Anyways, thank you again for your huge contribution and joining me in my dehoarding adventures!

Thank you and you all have a good evening too!
~Kennedy

Kennedy

13 hours ago

PS. Can I use your little icon pic with your story. I see it has one of your rescue dogs in it! So cute!

Jennifer Mobbs

January 24 2013 6:27pm EDT

I am so glad you like my story. As soon as I get your Globe I will take some pictures and send them to you.

Yeah, the built-ins are great, the dogs don't bother them at all! Normally I never go over 6 dogs at a time, but I came across what I thought was a puppy only to find out it was a 3 and half pound poodle mix thing, skin and bones-you could see every single rib, covered in fleas, not fixed, etc...Unfortunately, I am afraid he may not be adoptable. I took him to our dog trainer and he has been so abused he is scared to death of men. We have been working with him for 9 months now and though he is comfortable with me, this is probably as good as he will get. But that's OK--I have my quirks too!

Feel free to use my picture, that is our rescue pug "Toula", she came to us at 10 years old, she was used as a breeder and had never been on grass when we took her in. She is a doll, she is close to 16 years old now! She has been a wonderful dog-I hope she lives to 20 at least!!! :0)

Thanks again,
Jennifer

Kennedy Miranda

January 24 2013 7:20pm EDT

I love your story! and the sacrifices you make for your dogs. AND you'll send me pics of your globes!!!!! THANK you so much! I can't wait now! Make sure your rescue dogs are in the pic too! They are part of your "if you could travel" crew!

I'm so sorry to hear about the poodle mix thing, on one hand he sounds so sad, but on the other he is so lucky to have been found by someone like you who will take good care of him and bring him to his best possible potentials and can accept him for who he is with all his quirks. What's his name?

Toula sounds adorable and sounds like she had a sad life as a breeder until she you found her. Poor thing! A dog that's never been on grass? It must have been a sight to see when you put her on grass.

I had an Australian Shepard since he was a puppy and he lived to be 22 years old. I think it was because he was the happiest dog in the world! I do miss him.

You must have s o m e patience! A stranger once asked me to take in her rescue dog because it was her eighth one and she was spending $33 a day to keep him in a kennel and he had been there for over a month and only got out once a week for 15 min.

Rocco was half pit bull rottweiler and needed a lot of help. She paid for a dog trainer, like 700 bucks and had a chip put in him and all kinds of other stuff. It got a little crazy for me when I had to take him for walks with three leashes and two types of muzzles and some weird kinds of sprays. And he ruined about 5k worth of my furniture, which I don't really care, but I wish she would have warned me, I would have taken precautions! There were too many small dogs that he went after for snacks and I always had to stay away from babies in strollers. So sad, she took him back to the kennel.

So I must say, you must have tons of patience and love and I'm really inspired by your stories. You must be really gifted!

Thank you,
~Kennedy

How cool do the globe world key chains look in their new home!  Another favorite thing of mine too-- a shadow box!  and ... I forgot I collect old passports too!  And a bonus of  pics of some of the rescued pets!  Thank you for the pic and for connecting with our rescue pet stories!  I love your passport story too, thanks for including it!

Jennifer Mobbs

January 29 2013 5:33pm EDT 

Hi Kennedy: So sad about "Rocco". We have had some of those really destructive dogs too, it so hard since you know they aren't trying to be bad, but it's destroying your house!!! I was nice of you to try, but she should have warned you!. One of our rescues we have now, we had talked back and forth with the Foster home for about 3 weeks, we drove almost 3 hours to pick her up. As we were putting her in our car, the lady says "Oh by the way I think she's blind." I was shocked. I would have taken her anyway, but it would have been nice to know before hand in the 5 conversations we had previous. We have found a lot of times either people don't know or they just don't tell you all of the truth so you will take the dog.

Well, I got the globes--I LOVE THEM! They are perfect for my shadow box. I took a picture, I hope it posted, I had to size it down. The passport in the photo is my Grandfathers, he was an actor, popular in the 1930-40's but he was in over a 100 movies, sometimes really small parts. It's funny how many of his old movies are on DVD now. He passed away at 91 in 1998, but I still miss him-he was a character!.

Thanks again, I appreciate you sweet note you sent with the globes, I will mark you as a favorite! Have a wonderful and hope you sell tons and tons!!!

Jennifer

Kennedy Miranda

January 29 2013 6:56pm EDT

Hi Jennifer!

I am happy to hear you love the globes! They do look perfect in your shadow box!

I am so excited! Thank you so much for the picture and the story about your Grandfather! That's so cool about your Grandfather acting in over 100 movies! Too bad we can't see his passport pic! Would we recognize him? I guess you are famous two times removed?

I will try to post this today on my blog. I'm just going to try and use hopefully all of our email words for it, as is.

Thank you for joining, supporting and being a huge part of my HoarderRehab via the Destiny of Things! In more ways than one!

~Kennedy

Saying Good-bye:  it makes me happy to know that all of my things, like these teacher props and rewards are going to better places and getting out of a boxes of stored hoard to be used and displayed as reminders of inspiring things to come, collections or memories of the past!

What I Learned:

1.  I never know how someone unknown will bring meaningful inspiration into my life!  It is good therapy for me as a hoarder to find something in common with non-hoarders!  It's not as scary as I thought.  There's surprises almost everywhere!

2.  It amazes me how "one thing", like the globe world key chain can have so many different meanings to different people.  It boggles my mind and reminds me to keep an even bigger open mind than I think possible! 

It's like when I read the "keywords" in shop stats to see how people end up at my shops!  It's astonishing!  Sometimes I have have to click on the "keyword" to see which item is linked up to it!  Like today's, key words:  "young feet in flip flops", "lock made out of coin", "valentine bottle", "nesting dolls" or "a".  I don't have any nesting dolls, locks or "a" at any of my shops, but people managed to get to my shops anyway and I'm thankful for it!

3.  Nice to meet someone who understands that we all have our "quirks!" and as a reminder to keep in mind for everyone I cross paths with.

Parting Thoughts:  It's so nice and inspirational to connect with others that are following their dreams with love, patience and sacrifice.  Meeting someone who is making the world a better place by rescuing neglected and/or abused pets through her love and sacrifices.  And another just starting to find her place in life through college life.

One who is inspired by the globe key chain to travel and as a reminder that her Grandmother will take her anywhere she wishes to go after she graduates, just she has with her aunts and mom.

And another who collects all different kinds of globes, as she uses her gifts to help others less fortunate.

I admire her strength, endurance and patience towards taking care and rehabilitating abandoned pets so they can become adoptable and be placed into another world again.  They have been lucky to be found by her!

Thank you Madison and Jennifer for giving my globe world key chains new meaning and new lives!  I can't thank you enough!  Although they seem like small objects, it's the practice I need to keep going and continue dehoarding.  Thank you for finding common connections with me and sharing a glimpse into your lives!

Thank you etsy for for connecting me with people who I not only find common threads and share little snippets of the past, future and current moments of our lives, but who take time to join, inspire and support me in my HoarderRehab:  The Destiny of Things adventure with their stories, pics and everydayness!
 
Thank you US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Honduras, Taiwan and Croatia for your presence the last two days.  Welcome Honduras and Taiwan!

If someone granted you one wish to take you wherever you wanted to go, where would you choose?

Mosler Toy Bank Vault and Hugo, the Movie: The Destiny of Things, Story XLI

Mosler Toy Bank Vault and Hugo, the Movie:  The Destiny of Things, Story XLI

Another fun mom searching to find the perfect unique item to inspire their child's interest of the moment!  And another teacher prop sold, along with my nostalgic heart it went to a young Hugoesque soul for his birthday!

This is the back story from his mom from an email the day after Christmas:

BACK STORY
This vault will be a birthday gift for my AMAZING son KK, who LOVES LOVES LOVES the world of gadgets, production, construction etc...ANYTHING HUGOesque!  (The movie Hugo).

For Christmas this year Santa brought him a few gold plated coins. (My parents).  He flipped over them and wanted to meticuosly calculate and protect them.  Hence...for his Taurus birthday, I thought a vintage vault with the "HUGOesque" combination lock would be perfect!

I loved hearing YOUR back story as well!  Your approach to "hoading" stories instead of things is FANTASTIC!  I myself am a "hoader" of memories...I am an Event/Party planner and will do anything to capture the moments of our lives through a PHOTO!!!!

You DO know the combination right?!?!?!

M

Date: Thursday, December 27, 2012, 10:55 AM

Hi M!

Yes, it still has it's original sticker on the bottom of the bank with it's secret combination!  You'd be surprised how many students (all 30, year after year) who have tried to crack the code with not one realizing it was on the bottom of it!

Oh wow!  I'll have to watch the movie, Hugo now.  We have it, but haven't watched it yet.  I do know how your son feels about those coins!  I even loved the sound of them and was able to discern the sound between a silver quarter and the newer ones.  As a child, I had/have a great coin collection,  probably why I had a bank collection too!  I don't know how you will save it til his birthday in April!  Kudos to you for that one!
Total gadget fan too, esp. if it's mechanical solar,  but not battery or electrically related!

THANK YOU for the back story, it will certainly help my hoarding ways and go on my blog.  I'm attached to the bank because it was a prop that my students loved to love!  I used it to introduce"money" when themed  teaching was "in" and also later for Open Court Reading with the unit on "money".

It kept all kinds of things,  like money from around the world, money past students had designed, money my brother designed for me when I first started teaching with my third grade picture on it (I taught 3rd grade for 18 years as an inner city teacher ), other small magic banks, even origami made from dollarbills!  Oh what teaching fun and learning revolved around that bank!  Also, it was my transitioning prop from Math to other cultures and social studies with foreign money!

This is the little blurb I'd use:

Also the Mosler bank has a cool story in itself! It's just not "any" bank vault!  That "Mosler" vault was made by the same company that made several vaults that withstood the atomic bombing in Japan!  It's no longer in business, but that little fact of history will remain with me.  Then we'd go on to study Japan through all subject areas and end with  making origami rings and t-shirts with "real" dollar bills! rings for Mother's day and t-shirts for Father's day cards!

Then we'd go on to Social Studies: Mosler  bank vaults are made with strength and precision!  So much so, they  made the vault that once protected our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence! Thank you for bringing back those memories, it's time to let them go and for it to make new memories with your amaZing son K!

Update sun27jan2013:  Last night we watched "Hugo" by Martin Scorsese and it is an inspiring, funny, delightful movie for all ages!  And I can definitely see Mari's son loving the mechanicalness of the combination lock on a large sized toy bank vault for his Christmas coins.

Just think his mom was just as inspired to go looking for a vault bank for him the day after Christmas finding mine!  What fun!

 

Saying Good-bye: I'm not sure what happened to my bank collection.  I think my mom has some of my Snoopy and other banks.  My Felix the Cat bank sold without a story.  I gave my brother's childhood tin mailbox bank to his son.  His was like the one in the link, but all blue and I had saved it with the key for over 40 years!  

I still have my glow in the dark Halloween skull bank, which can be seen in the background in some of the etsy shop Halloween or Day of the Dead items.  My magic bank is lost in the hoard, along with my childhood coin and stamp collections.

Letting this go would have been a more major ordeal, like my Freddy the Frog, except it went to such an inspiring boy and such an inspiring movie to go along with it!  Some Hugo-esque young soul is going to make such wonderful adventuress memories with this bank, instead of sitting in a room of hoard storage.  

This is a better life than I could imagine for one of my teacher props with my own good memories in it!  See and read more details about the Mosler vault bank here.  

Other information I found interesting:

Read about the Mosler Safe Company here, it's short and quite interesting.

It's one of the 15 Most Impenetrable Bank Vaults, according to CMI Gold and Silver.

Bomb testing of the Mosler Bank Vault in Nevada, 1957

Above photo and two paragraphs below from Almost Diamonds

An enormous Mosler bank vault sits abandoned and forgotten on the dry lake bed of Frenchman Flat, Nev. It is ugly and rusting, a big cookie jar from hell -- yet it now exists as one of America's greatest monuments to clear thinking.

That giant safe is a relic of an Atomic Energy Commission experiment in 1957 ("Response of Protective Vaults to Blast Loading"). Filled with stocks and bonds, cash and insurance policies, it confirmed that our official valuables, contracts and financial instruments could survive nuclear war. The test must have seemed like a good idea at the time, a masterpiece of steel-and- concrete realpolitik.

I'm not sure why they did more testing, since the atomic bombing....maybe someone out there can share why.

Mosler Bank Vault advertised and admired for being stronger than the Atomic bomb. Photo of Teikoku Bank after the bombing, only the Mosler vault and it's contents survived.  The bank was rebuilt around the vaults and since 1967 is now a bakery.

 Photo from Conelrad Adjacent with even more historical info. than wiki and interesting advertisements.

What I Learned:

1.  It's very difficult to write while having an allergic reaction to something I ate today!  Everything is fuzzy minded and I lose my thought easily, even if I manage to have one!  I will need to redraft this, but will keep moving forward!  Especially since I just noticed that the historical info. I added is out of order.

So I suppose it's not always the hoard of clutter that is cluttering my mind, although through this experience I can now make some distinct differences between the two.

2.  Also, it seems Freddy the Frog  paved the way for other teacher items to be on their little merry way, since it was one of the first major teacher props to go, at least now it's initial sting and horror has not stayed and in six months, I think the best parts of Freddy and his new life will foreshadow how it wrenched my heart.  (I'm using my new coping mechanisms from "Destiny as Infinity" and surprisingly helps more than I thought---in two simple easy questions to ask myself:  1.  Does this bring me closer or further away from my dreams?  2.  In six months, will I still feel like ______ when I think about it?

And YES! it's true, new healthier alternatives do become easier and more automatic through conscious practice!

3.  It's taken about a month to get over my Meltdown, however I am still buying some things from the list I made during the worst time of it.  Also, I'm still adding to the Menu of Disaster buying list!  And I am making little progress on picking at my fingers. 

I just keep trying to apply those two questions from #2, think about my heroes and then contradict myself with "but it's healthier to buy stuff than stuff my face!" Although some french fries with guacamole would instantly solve all my inner conflict about now!

4.  However, I am feeling strong enough with much more courage to share pics of my hoarded room or soon to be music art room as part of my recovery.  They were taken today and the most shocking and weirdest part is the pictures look much worse than what I see in real life!

Thank you M for finding my Hugo-esque Mosler Bank to inspire your son for his birthday!  And thank you M's son for inspiring me through your love of the movie Hugo of a lost boy who fixes things and along the way fixes several broken hearts, including his own.  Watch it and see it's multi layered adventures!

Thank you etsy for helping to unburden one more item from my home to a new life through another amazing connection I thought not possible!

Thank you  US, Germany, UK, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, Romania, and Russia for stopping by HoarderRehab: The Destiny of Things!

Toothy Tooth Locket Keeper Necklace: The Destiny of Things, Story XL

Toothy Tooth Locket Keeper Necklace:  The Destiny of Things, Story XL

Remember these?  I love little lockets and trinkets like this and I finally figured out why!

This might be long and round about posting, but let's see where it takes me today!  I don't know why but I love stuff like this and not just one, but in huge quantities!  Does it have to do with my art in repetition? From my teaching days with classes of 30 students or from my Dad!?!

Here are the other ones, I just love!  And I bought both kinds one of each for every student and more of their choice for falling out teeth in class, prizes and rewards individually and as a class, so you can imagine the quantity I would need each year.  Plus they loved them as much as I did!

And it was a good homework lesson in what I called, "the teeny tiny treasure hunter game" of who could find the most different items to fit in it and become the best teeny tiny "master" treasure hunter in the world and prove it with a written list.

Anyways, I kinda sorta had an interesting epiphany the other day with these.  An etsy buyer bought these and thanked me for selling them in small lots!  Imagine that!  I thought it was so funny, but then I realized that's probably how a non-hoarder thinks!  If one only needs one, only buy one!  I need to adapt exactly that!

Kennedy Miranda

January 25 2013 1:06pm EDT

Invoice: www.etsy.com/your/orders/77804486

Hi Ashley!

They will be shipped out on Monday, the 28th, which I think is plenty of time to reach you, however if you'd like to pay $3 more we can mail it in the USPS Flat Rate Priority Box.

Thank you for thanking me for keeping these- it gave me quite the chuckle!- but the only reason is because I'm a recovering hoarder and everything I'm selling at all three shops are my purge this time around!

As a matter of fact, if you have the time to share your story behind this order I could use it! I am collecting these stories instead of more things (well, most of the time-it's such an ongoing battle to recovery) and documenting on my blog to see if it ends my hoarding cycles.

So I'm quite curious what will become of these tooth saver lockets and by the 15th makes me even more curious!

Thank you and let me know, if you need an upgrade on your shipping

Hope you are having a good Friday!
Best regards,
~Kennedy

boandashley7

January 25 2013 1:17pm EDT 

I'm sure shipping Monday will be fine!

The tooth lockets are for my daughters reading fair project, which is due February 21st. She is in 1st grade and we are using the book "Fancy Nancy and the Too Loose Tooth". In the book, Nancy really wants her tooth to fall out at school so that the nurse will give her the tooth locket to keep it in. She is so careful all weekend so that the tooth will not fall out at home. We chose this book because my daughter's first tooth is loose and she is dying for it to come out! While they don't give out these lockets at her school, she still loves the book, and is really excited I was able to find one for her to use for the project. (She probably will also put her tooth in it when it comes out)

Everywhere else online was selling them in large quantities. I really only need one for her to wear while she presents her project, but I may put the others on the table for decoration.

Good luck with getting over the hoarding. I understand it is very difficult to overcome!

I will try to remember to send you a picture of her wearing the locket with her project board. You can use it for your blog!

Kennedy Miranda

January 25 2013 2:45pm EDT 

What a great story! Thank you! You are so kind and I so look forward to your daughter's tooth falling out, so she can use her locket and best of all to see her happy toothy tooth grin! That will be such the icing on the cake for my blog. Thanks!

Your daughter's story is classic and so cute. I think I had a lot of students wait til their teeth fell out in class or on the job as we called it, so they could have a tooth locket too. Weird, I can't remember which book I would read about teeth falling out, but Fancy Nancy and the Too Lose Tooth sounds fun and funny!

When I was a kid, I even tried the tying floss to the door knob and to my tooth and had my brother slam the door. I think we watched too many cartoons! I can't remember what the outcome was, probably got in trouble with mom!

Yes, hoarding has been an issue with me all my life, since I was a kid. I think my mom had me collect different things to keep me busy and it escalated! I blindly purged or dehoarded about every ten years or so and I hope this time by being more mindful it will end!

If you'd like I can sell you just one, if that's all you need for $3.00 total including shipping and refund the difference or I can sell you how many more you need so your daughter can give one to each classmate! and give you a 50% discount!

After all, it's going to a good cause!

boandashley7

January 25 2013 3:30pm EDT 

Thanks - I think the 10 will actually work out perfect, in case she breaks one or wants to give some to her baby dolls :)

I wish you all the luck in the world!

Saying Good-bye:  As a repetition artist and hoarder this is causing me some anxiety and conflict!  On the one hand, I can't think of a way to use them in an art project in multiples and the hoarder part of me wants to let them go!  And the FOMO or fear of missing out part of me thinks that as soon as I get down to my last few of these, I'll find a way to use them!

What I learned:

1.  I need to resolve the inner conflict!  but how?  I think I should just let them go because there is always something else I can use in art.  Especially since I can't think of anything!  Or maybe there's more to this loss than I know consciously at this point?

2.  Having all this kawaii cute kitschy stuff stems from my childhood.  My dad was in charge of buying all the games and prizes for the annual Gardener's picnic when I was growing up.  I would go with him sometimes to pick it up and of course, I was only allowed to look and not touch or have until the day of the picnic.

I have good memories of the Gardner's picnic.  Every family invited their extended family and everyone brought tons of home cooked finger foods!

Later, they had all kinds of individual and team relay races, booth games, raffle ticket prizes for adults and children and even the classic tug of war!  I remember my dad would make double geta race shoes for two.  Every year he'd add another person, so triple geta shoe racing for three,four, five and six!  I honestly don't remember at what level it finally ended with!  Every year we stored them from the rafters in our garage!

Side Note:  A geta is a type of Japanese wooden sandal, like a mini stilt.  Here's a pic of one, usually for a male.  Just imagine it made for two to six people sharing one long one!  Here is a geta for a female.

My other favorite race was the gunny sack race!  (probably where my love of burlap started too!) Remember those?  Hopping around individually and then with a partner for a three legged race?  Then it was time for the booth games with all the prizes I could finally get and touch!  Those were the good ol' days.  I have no idea why the Gardner's picnic stopped happening or when, but I think that's where I've gotten some of my hoard mentality for some reason I can't fathom.

3.  So my childhood days of godzillian prizes came from the Gardner's picnic, transferred to my teacher days with rewards and prizes for myself and students and finally to as a repetition artist!  Hopefully when my hoard clears out and my mind is less cluttered, I'll have room in both places to actually get more of what I love done!

Thank you etsy for giving myself and my hoard a place in this world and for all the kind, supportive and non-judgemental etsyians I've met along the way!

Thank you Ashley for being such a fun mom to hunt down the tooth locket!  and for helping me to realize that "one" is enough and two can be too many!  I still don't quite grasp that concept, but I feel as though I'm becoming closer to it thanks to you!  Thank you for sharing your story in such detail.

Thank you Ashley's daughter and teacher for your class assignment and congratulations on your loose tooth and to growing up! I so look forward to an update with a pic of your new grin wearing the tooth locket just like Fancy Nancy!!!!  That part makes me so excited and happy to see my hoarded history stuff in it's new life!

Thank you US, Germany, Spain: new friend Miki from Sweet Vintage Goods, UK and Ukraine!  Welcome Suriname!  Thank you all for joining me on HoarderRehab:  The Destiny of Things!

Post Note:  Tooth saver lockets are available here!

UPDATE! Wed, 27 February 2013

I've been patiently waiting for this pic, since Ashley said she'd send me one from her daughter's book fair and here it is!

Ashley who went all out for her daughter's book fair on Fancy Nancy and the Too Loose Tooth on the 21st sent me a pic of it!!!!  Her loose tooth still hasn't fallen out yet, but she got to dress like Fancy Nancy for the book fair!  This is the preliminary dress rehearsal from the night before!  Thank you Ashley and daughter!

Fancy Nancy is about a girl who loves to dress up and can't wait for her tooth to fall out at school, so she can get a tooth locket from the nurse.  Doesn't that sound like my other tooth locket story?  See my/her/our tooth locket on her poster board.

I learned a lot from Ashley and it seems to be sticking with me and is really helping me out!  I've passed on a two discounted sales because I asked myself, "Is one enough and is more than two going to be too many?"

On Monday, I also found this quote on etsyian, Susan Arnor of ASuzyDesign's About page,  "Goal:  To use what I have, to finish what I start and to only buy what I need"  This quote has done a lot for me!  Thank you Susan!

So between Ashley showing me some non-hoarding thought processes of buying only what's needed, yet thanking me for saving my hoard, I'm catching on to the concept of how one is enough and two is too many and how one is not enough and two is too many!  Susan's goal put it all in perspective for me and although it's simple and true, it came just at the right time to hit a home run for me!

I debated for two days about buying stuff I wanted because it was 10% and offered free shipping and even though what I wanted only amounted to $10 I passed it up!  Yes, I lamented for awhile and felt FOMO (fear of missing out) terrible, like I really lost out on something, but the next morning I was glad I was able to pass it up!

Then I did it a second time on some stuff for one of my collections.  I was tempted to buy 20-100+ items for my religious medal collection not only because it was a super good deal, but because I loved the stuff!

"Use what I have and finish what I start and buy only what I need"....that's my new quote of a tool to help me think like a non-hoarder!  The practice of thinking "use what I have, finish what I start and buy only what I need" has already helped me to stay with my HoarderRehab etsy goals.  I'm still sleeping well too with naps, so I'm sure that's helping also.

Thank you Ashely for your continued support, inspiration and a glimpse into non-hoard thinking!  You've given me a valuable lesson that I can use as a recovering hoarder for the rest of my life!  Many thanks!

Thank you Susan for a "new" quote to keep me on course towards my Minimalistic organic home with a music art room, instead of adding more to my hoard!

Thank you etsy for giving me a connection with etsyians that keeps me supported and inspired!

Thank you US, UK, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Venezuela and France for joining me today in another "moving merrily down the stream" day in the adventures of HoarderRehab: The Destiny of Things!

Related Stories:

1.  Teacher Tooth Locket Story: a story from a teacher that's like the Fancy Nancy Too Loose Tooth story!

2.  Mosler Bank Story:  another story of a mother going all out for their child's imagination!

3.  HoarderRehab Esty Goals:  Keeping steady to sticking to my goals with support from other etsyians!

Must de Cartier and My Perfume Collection: The Destiny of Things, Story, XXXIX

Must de Cartier and My Perfume Collection:  The Destiny of Things, Story, XXXIX

I thought this was/is as sentimental to me as to Karen who bought my/her/our Must de Cartier perfume yesterday and joined me and my HoarderRehab adventure by sharing her story and picture!

Kennedy Miranda

January 24 2013 11:50am EDT

Invoice: www.etsy.com/your/orders/77593701

Hi Karen!

Thank you for ordering my/our/your Cartier perfume. I hope you love it as much as I do! If there is a story behind your purchase I'd love to know it and document it on my blog to see if it helps end my hoarding cycles this time around!

This fragrance brings back so many memories for me, however due to my allergies I can no longer keep it. What memories does it have for you? and I hope it brings you many more happy ones!

It will be shipped out tomorrow USPS flat rate priority. Thanks again and I hope to include your story. Thank you in advance for your time!

Best regards,
~Kennedy at
The Destiny of Things
HoarderRehab
VintageToGoetsy
hoarderrehab.blogspot.com/

This is less than half my perfume collection started when I was a child.

 My mom has some of the other half of what I started and hers is still growing!

karen davis

January 24 2013 12:17pm EDT 

The Cartier Fragrance brings back all of the wonderful memories when my husband and I traveled a great deal in the 80s and 90s. We went all over this wonderful country, spent a lot of it snow skiing, as well as traveled to all parts of Europe.

Absolutely everyone wanted to know what fragrance I was wearing. The scent lasts all day and I never wore anything but Cartier. We celebrate 39 years together this year. It will be a treat and surprise for him when he gets a whiff of it. He will remember the scent as he loves it as much as I do. Thank you for allowing me to share and recall those special times!!!

Karen
Texas

 

 

  

Kennedy Miranda

January 24 2013 12:29pm EDT

Oh Karen! Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Thank you for your heartfelt story! I wasn't expecting one, but I gave it a shot! Your story brings tears to my eyes. I was hoping the Cartier perfume would go to someone just like you! Someone who loves it just as much as I do with just as many memories!

And 39 years together! I am ecstatic and elated that you two will be going down years of memory lanes with this perfume!

Can I share your exact words on my blog with the beautiful pic of you two together?

I can't believe how happy your story makes me!
Best to you and your husband!

~Kennedy
California

karen davis

January 24 2013 12:51pm EDT

Yes. I'm delighted someone can share. Thanks.

 
Saying Good-bye:  I think I'm over my Meltdown, either that or the two focal questions from "destiny as infinity" are finally kicking in and working for me and I am consciously more focused on my HoarderRehab etsy goals.  And I've added a third common sense question... Does this help or worsen my allergies?

The issue I have with fragrances, especially perfume and incense is there were such a big part of my daily ritual of beginning and ending my day and helped as a stress release.  I used to have some stick incense and knew exactly where to break it for a ten minute routine of meditation, which for me is just sitting quietly, breathing and thinking of nothing.

As you can imagine, very difficult for me to do and for months had to keep pen and paper by my side to write down all the thoughts and to do lists going through my head til it was automatic to think of nothing!  I used to love do a whole lot of nothing and then rest! (lilchuckle)  It used to be so easy for me.  (that was a time of one of my last purges)

Note to self:  Write about my purges, especially my last purge when all I took was ten things to my next home.  And how my mom kept me busy with all my collections!

I'd like to replace that daily routine with exercise, but that just does NOT sound ideal or as easy or fun.  Maybe eventually, a quick jump rope of five minutes and a walk after dinner to see other home decor and visit the park down the street.

Anyways, saying good-bye is a lot easier, even with six packages leaving today and out of the six packages I received four stories!  Writing these stories has been the best dehoarding recovery so far!

Side Kick Story:  I've had this perfume set aside because I have it's leather case somewhere in the hoard or at least I used to!  I looked for a week straight and did not find it, but there's still so many boxes to go through, but anyways, I don't know why I was being a stickler about it listing it without it, however when I went to the Autry, this lady was wearing it and every time she came into a room, it just filled it and it was.... well, it was intoxicating!

It brought back so many memories, like when an old boy-friend returned from Paris and added to my LV collection with the Speedy bag, LV checkbook wallet, this Must de Cartier perfume and a pair of 14k gold garnet earrings.  (Now that one I have found the box, but not the earrings!).  I think he was trying to make a tomboy into a lady! -funny.

Odd memories too, nothing romantic like it's seducing fragrance, like when I took the old bf to see the musical Pennies From Heaven for his birthday (his choice) and let him dress me how he thought I should dress (that was the last time!) and all I thought about during the musical was how many six packs of the cheapest beer I could have funded for my college friends and I for a month!

Side Note:  After this next weekend, the curio box will be emptied of all perfume bottles for picture day and then listed next week at the etsy shop, The Destiny of Things.  It's going to house all my broken items from childhood that I can't part with and I'll call it "Broken Childhood Dreams".  It already houses three broken items, my first Native American bracelet, which was a souvenir gift from my Grandmother, a dime store wallet my Grandfather gave me and a wooden bird brooch missing the safety pin my Grandmother made during Executive Order 9066.

If you are curious about the must de Cartier perfume, the mini one of the same era is here and less costly!

What I Learned:

1.  Well, I feel kinda ripped off from my Cartier scent experience.  It was a let down instead of uplifting.  I thought I had better memories of them until I actually had to sit down and write them out!  Oh well, it's a reminder to be myself to evolve slowly and mindfully.  And I'm happy and excited it's going to some people who will relive happy times again!

2.  My perfume collection is only one of many collections I had as a child.  Was that a precursor to my hoarding ways?  Read how I started my childhood perfume collection here.

3.  This Cartier couple makes me so happy just looking at them and imagining 39 years of memories and many of them associated with one of the most unforgettable fragrances ever!  If I ever need to dehoard stress I'm coming back to this picture as a reminder that there is more to life than things!

Thank you Karen for allowing me to share your story as part of my HoarderRehab adventure to better health and a minimalistic organic home with a music art room, instead of hoard!  May you and yours have 39+ more years together just as happy as the last!

Thank you etsy for helping me make connections with people in ways I never thought possible and being such a big part of my HoarderRehab:  The Destiny of Things!  

Thank you US, Germany, Indonesia, Philippines and Saudi Arabia for your visits today!

Post Notes: 5: 47pm.  I was wandering around etsy again because every time I proofread this post I just keep adding on to it and I was excited to find etsy's blog article on The Art of Scent!  Another coincidental serendipitous moment! Oh and when I commented that I think "scent" is an underestimated art form, I meant museum-wise.  Note to self:  Don't make comments under heavy insomnia!

Another Post Note:   29jan2013 I just read beanforest's blog:  "accidental time travel" and it reminds me of how scents can send me beyond memories to accidental time travels, like I describe some where in my Incense Burner Collection.

Since the only things I'm not allergic to are organic, does anyone know of any organic incense out there?  I have found some organic perfumers on etsy, like Roxana Illuminated Perfumes and CosmoVerde that sell samples, but haven't the courage to try them due to the expensive risk of an allergic reaction.  Has anyone else out there tried them?

Incense was a daily stress reliever for the beginning and the end of my day!  What are your daily rituals?

Rear View Mirror Religious Medal: The Destiny of Things, Story XXXVIII

Rear View Mirror Religious Medal:  The Destiny of Things, Story XXXVIII

When it rains, it pours!  And that's literally and figuratively over here in Southern California!  The sun is finally popping in and out this afternoon after a long night of soaking rains!  I hope you are staying warm, dry and safe!

I received four stories today and two yesterday.  One I'm waiting on more pics and the others are for Chinese New Year, so I guess I'll do the others in the order they arrived!

Kennedy Miranda

January 24 2013 11:54am EDT

Invoice: www.etsy.com/your/orders/77686786

Hi Becky!

Thank you for your order of the art nouveau religious medal! I hope you love it as much as I do! Will you make it into a baptismal bracelet? I saw the one in your fav's and I'm thinking of making some myself. I love the look and have some leftover rosary medals like the one shown in that pic.

Anyways, if there is a story behind your order, please do tell! I'm collecting these stories, instead of more things for my HoarderRehab blog to see if it helps end my hoarding ways this time around.

Your religious medal will be shipped out tomorrow! Thank you for your time in advance.

Best regards,
Kennedy at
The Destiny of Things
HoarderRehab
VintageToGoetsy
hoarderrehab.blogspot.com/

 This is the cutest baptismal bracelet I found in Becky's favs.  I love the rosary medal used in it.

 pic from Renatta Poccia, baptismal bracelet from her etsy shop, NaturalStonesJewelry

beckygriffith1

January 24 2013 12:12pm EDT

The bracelet I’m going to just buy- It’s for a friend’s baby and I don’t want anything that dangles just in case baby decides to eat it!

I’m combining the medal with some chandler crystals to make something for my car’s rear view mirror. I’m not Christian, but I am a History major and I appreciate the evolution of the original earth mothers into Mary within religious history. Regardless of an individual’s religious affiliation it reminds us all to adapt, endure and triumph.

Thank you!

Kennedy Miranda

January 24 2013 12:21pm EDT 

That's too cool! about the baby bracelet and more interesting to me is your chandelier crystal dangle for your car's rear view mirror!

I'm not religious either and started collecting religious medals through my the interest and history of the milagros when I saw a banner of them at the Mengei Museum years and year ago!

I started making my own religious artifacts back in the 80s and 90s, some are here in this shop.

www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings?section_id=12553465

I'd love to see your finished product of the rear view mirror and add it to my blog, if you remember and have the time!

I love your spirituality too! And your story inspires me to maybe make some more religious inspired items!

Thank you! I will use your words as is for my HoarderRehab blog! and best to you and your studies!
~Kennedy

Saying Good-bye:  I like it when other people's fav's inspire me and for some reason seeing the rosary medal bracelet designed by Renatta Poccia used in such a simple way really motivated me to clean up the storage room so it can be turned into a music art room!  Thank you Becky and Renatta!

Even though my religious medals are selling more quickly than I thought and even though they don't take up much space, it's good practice for me to let go of them for the bigger and more nostalgic items I am saving for last.

What I Learned:

1.  It's taken a few weeks, but I feel like I'm getting back to normal after my Meltdown and the straw that broke the camel's back.  I'm still buying some of things I've found, but at least I've stopped looking for more things to buy and at least I'm buying stuff, instead of stuffing my face!

2.  Yesterday's Twin of "something blue" Native American bracelet still had some faded sadness to it, but when I rationally called myself on it... and asked myself, is this bringing me closer or further away from my goals?  And how does this help my allergies and health?  I can honestly say, it's going to someone else who will benefit from it more than me.

As a matter of fact, all 6 items that sold yesterday and today are much easier to say good-bye too with both questions in mind.  Most of them I'm allergic too and all of them bring me closer to my dream of a Minimalist Organic Home and a music art room, instead of a hoarded storage room.

Will I remember this six months from now?  I doubt it because I can barely name anything that has sold since my first sale on etsy in May.  And if I do, I can go back to it's new story and it's new home and celebrate everything it's brought me!

Thank you etsy for helping reach my dream of a minimalistic organic home with a music art room, instead of a hoard!

Thank you US, Germany and France for supporting me in my HoarderRehab adventure of The Destiny of Things!

Twin of "something blue" for you Native American bracelet : The Destiny of Things, Story XXXVII

Twin of "something blue" for you Native American bracelet:  The Destiny of Things, Story XXXVII

Yeah!!! I got another "Destiny of Things" story this morning and this one seems to be "destiny as infinity" too!

Note from Buyer Hi, I have a story about this bracelet. In the late '70's I was visiting relatives in Albuquerque. In "Old Town" and my uncle took my cousin & me to a furniture/misc store to buy turquoise jewelry. My cousin & I each picked this very style braclet. My uncle haggled with the old Native American woman behind the counter and got the price to $18.50 each! That bracelet was my favorite piece of jewelry until it was stolen 18 yrs ago. I have been searching for one just like it ever since. I am happy to have found one! ---Nancy

 Hi Nancy!

Thank you for your order and especially the story! It's such a nice surprise to get this am!

OH wow! What a story! I love it and thank you so much for it! It's been difficult letting go of my last few NA bracelets, which I'd keep them all, but I've waited 3 years to become unallergic to sterling.

Thank you for your story! I know, I can't thank you enough! I will write about it on my blog today! I'm going to use it how you wrote it because it's so heartfelt. Does your cousin still have her bracelet?

I used to have two of these, twins, I called them and I found them at different times. I figured that the odds of having both wasn't going to happen again and I wanted them to go to the same home, but oh well. I'm glad this one is going to replace a long lost treasure!

I hope you get to show this piece to your Uncle and cousin for a happy reunion event of that day!

Thank you so much for taking part in my HoarderREhab!
Best!
~Kennedy

PS. It will be shipped out Friday USPS flat rate priority with insurance

PSS. This is like a "destiny as infinity" story which is my theme quote as I dehoard my way to a minimalist organic home and a music art room, instead of storage! Thank you so much!

Thanks for the warm reply to my story.
The bracelet my cousin got lost a few of the stones. I don't know if she kept it but you can bet I will find out!
Excited to receive my "new" treasure. Glad I found your shop.
---Nancy
P.S. Thanks for sharing my story on your blog.

This is the twin to the twin! 

Sold on October 1, 2012 to Gretchen who just starting her turquoise bracelet collection.  I was hoping to get both stories behind the purchase and I did!  Thank you Nancy and Gretchen!

 The easiest way for me to tell these apart is by the inside marks on them.


Saying Good-bye:  I don't know if it's getting more difficult to say good-bye to my Native American bracelets because of the run off stress of my Meltdown or because out of the 20 or so Native American bracelets half of them are gone.  I think it's because I'm still recovering from my Meltdown.

Rationally, I can't even wear these bracelets anymore since I've waited over three years to become unallergic to sterling silver and it's not happening!  There I do feel better from writing that!  Phew! 

Plus the last twin is going to a "destiny as infinity" home!  There's nothing better than finding the lost sentimental item of the past and the feelings of satisfaction and contentment one simple item long gone can bring back.

And this time instead of me having this item with little sentimental memories in it, I am so excited to pass it on to someone who's memory of it is much bigger and detailed.  I am much happier to let go of this and to be part of an 18 year search for an "old/new" treasure that is now complete.

Thank you Nancy for letting me share your story on my blog, as it is, in it's true self!  Thank you Nancy and Gretchen for unburdening my soul and lifting my spirit today as I learn a more rational process of letting go of my hoard to accomplish my dream to a new life of at least a minimalist organic home with an extra room to be used for music and art, rather than storage!  And who knows what else!

Thank you etsy for providing a place for me to meet such generous people who support me with their time and stories towards ending my hoarding cycles!!! 

Thank you readers from US, Canada, UK, Germany, Romania, Russia and Ukraine for joining me in my HoarderRehab:  The Destiny of Things!


Parting Thoughts:Another twin story.  I seem to have a lot of doubles or twins of certain items.  I wonder what that means to me.  Maybe it's part of the mystery of one is not enough and two is too much?  Other twin cross story here.

I have twin snuff boxes made of 1925 and 1934 sterling Peruvian coins too, but they were gifts. Hmmm?  I wonder what other twin items I have out there?  Anyone have any clues for me?