Large Sterling Hair Clip: The Destiny of Things, Story 167

Large Sterling Hair Clip:  The Destiny of Things, Story 167

This left without a story, but I'm still hoping to find mine!

photo via The Destiny of Things, read it's original listing here

This was an unused milestone birthday gift.  It's huge and heavy for a hair clip, a little over 3 inches long and will hold my mass of hair, but through all these years, I never even tried it.  It's just something I'd never use and after waiting over 3 years to become unallergic to sterling to see if I was ever going to try it,  I finally listed it.

It's gotten plenty of offers, but I just couldn't let it go and was dreading and hoping for it to stay or leave and then one day out of the blue it sold....it felt like an abra ca da bra "poof" wave of a wand gone magic trick.

photo via The Destiny of Things, it looks like it's walking away!

Saying Goodbye:  I thought this was going to bring plenty of tug of war feelings when I had to let it go, but it left without an inkling of dismay or huge pull to shop for other things.

And I have no idea why... is it because I have seemed to cured my insomnia and am catching up on decades of long lost sleep or is it finding alternatives to my hoarding ways? or have I dehoarded enough to unclutter my mind to remember bits and pieces of memories, like boxes of mixed up puzzle pieces, eventually being sorted and slowly coming together to see my own stories?

What I Learned:

1.  How much does the "why" really matter if I can dehoard less painlessly again?

2.  Why unused gifts are so sentimental to me that I hold on to them for decades is beyond me and why I feel guilty about letting them go is another clue to my own mysteries, however I do know that the more I let go of these things; these things help me to relive the pain and each time the pain is less and less.

Again, how much of the "why" matters when "something" is working....

What do you think?  Am I gaining speed or dodging a bullet?

Thank you Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things for quietly ordering my Sterling Hair Clip because your silence helped me with mine.

Thank you Etsy for your continued help with my dehoarding journey.

Thank you US, Brazil, China, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Bosnia and Herzegovina or your support as I journey through my HoarderRehab and  The Destiny of Things!

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things and VintageToGoEtsy and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy!  There are about 99 items listed on JunkDrawerLoveEtsy and will be listing 1-2 new things there daily and 1-2 items at the other shops!  Keep an eye open for my handmade things which is my alternative to hoarding now!  Thanks for looking! 

Most Read Story of the Week and Month:  My Organic Toothbrush Stick called Miswak  I'm still using the same stick twig after 8 months and still loving it!  My Miswak Toothbrush Update, three months later.  

Miswak is available, here, at our HoarderRehab Etsy shop.  Four more miswak are available at The Destiny of Things, here! 

All Time Most Read Story:  My Louis Vuitton Collection the end of mine for the beginning of someone else.  The last piece of my LV collection, my 80s LV gold cornered wallet is available here at The Destiny of Things! 

"Forget all the reasons why it won't work and try the one reason that might!"

Tooth Locket Necklaces and Fortune Fish: The Destiny of Things, Story 166

Tooth Locket Necklaces and Fortune Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story 166

I'm so thankful that I'm not the only one who remembers these from childhood!

 photos via Hoarder Rehab and JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here and here!

My childhood is quite blurry, but dehoarding seems to help unclutter my mind which includes many past memories all the way to childhood!

Here's the email I received that confirmed mine!

Sadly, I am not doing anything terribly exciting with them. I have a shop where I sell a lot of old medical/dental items, dolls, creepy things in general and I thought they would be perfect little tchotchke trinkets to add as a thank you gift. Plus those necklaces were the most exciting part about going to the dentist when I was a kid. 

Thank you so much again, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. It's been crazy around here.

CR

I think she means crazy because she just opened her new Etsy shop, Curios and Conjures! check it out here!  Welcome CR! The beginning with opening and listing can get crazy with everything to remember and do!

 photos via Hoarder Rehab and JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here and here!

 At my childhood dentist office, I remember a heavy paper treasure chest with many goodies inside it with stapled on paper headers.  I think I might have loved the paper headers as much as the toys inside them!  I even have a cardboard treasure chest somewhere in my hoard!  I wonder what's in it!  Must find...

I don't remember these teeth necklaces in it, but I do remember pink plastic bracelets and lollipops with lopped string handles!  Orange was my favorite flavor.  Ironic for a dentist to pass out!  Maybe it was the doctor's office.... maybe it was sugarless candy, remember that?

I don't know why, but it's nice to know these are from my childhood.  I had my suspicions, but now they are confirmed.  It seems I hoard a lot of things from my childhood that I either have used in my art in the past or want to in the future, but nothing at the moment.

Now the fortune fish, I remember playing with in the car and she ordered these too!  I think anyone of any age would take a secret minute or two to play with one of these!

 photo via Hoarder Rehab, available here!

Saying Goodbye:  I love these and have mine stashed away and will use all the defective ones in my art one day.  Perhaps sooner than later!

What I Learned:

1. One of my hoard patterns is to collect things from my childhood.  In the past, I don't remember much, but it seems I'm remembering more and more as I dehoard.  I wonder what I'm supposed to uncover for myself.

2.  Some good news, it seems that my collage art is becoming a pleasing timeless alternative to my hoarding ways!  However, the bad news is keeping myself busy enough to stop buying more washi tapes!

I don't know why my 100 or so various types of tapes don't seem enough and I'm always looking for more as inspiration.  Maybe it's a form of procrastination for me?  Anyways, I can't imagine how long, if ever, I can use it all!  My head says to stop, but my heart keeps window shopping!  It must mean something and I hope it's a clue to my hoarder recovery!

Here is a sample of my washi tape collage art.  This is series no 3, another Abstract Love collage:

photo via Hoarder Rehab, print available here  

Not sure about all the watermarks on it, still experimenting!

It's a combination of several inspirations, but dedicated to all the Etsy buyers who have left me stories to help mine, inspired by the quote I heard Francis Underwood say from House of Cards about Harmony in one of his speeches.  

Here is the quote as I heard it:

"Harmony.  It's not what's lasting or permanent.  It is about individual voices coming together for a moment.  And that moment lasts a length of a breath, or in my instance a transaction.  That's what I think about my time here."---Francis Underwood from House of Cards

When I heard that quote, it went straight to my heart because that's how I feel about my dehoarding on Etsy and this blog.

It's reversible too!  

Front view has Abstract Love:

It is meant to be seen with a lot of light, perhaps washi taped to a window!

Back side has the Francis Underwood, Harmony quote:  

 So when I get need a change of view I can just turn it around!

You can read more about the collage, here.  Reversible double sided frame available, here.

Thank you CR from Curios and Conjures for your kindness of sending a story, helpfulness (good to meet another over explainer that I can understand!), inspiration and motivation to keep going with mine!  Welcome and many happy sales to you and your new shop!  

Some of my favorites of her altered art is here quill doll head here, ironic rat trap, here and Love potion, here.  Also, I love her section on Crystals and Stones, here!  

Note to self:  Some of the defective tooth necklaces look like they have cavities, maybe her altered art have inspired mine!

Thank you Etsy for connecting me such a friendly and helpful Etsy buyer and helping me in so many ways with my dehoarding process, like finding 587 hoarded items new lives and homes!

Thank you US, China, Philippines, Ukraine, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Malaysia and Qatar for your visits and taking part in my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things adventures!  

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things, VintageToGoEasy and now JunkDrawerLove!  There are about 100 items listed on JunkDrawerLove and relistings to each shops daily and adding new listings weekly to all shops too!  Thanks for looking!

Maybe you'll find something to and give it a new life and share your story with me!

Related Tooth Necklace Stories:  

1.  For a good old fashioned Halloween party without candy in a tree house, read here!

2.  These shipped out ASAP for a loose tooth! Read about it here

3.  A mother hunts down these tooth lockets for her daughter's presentation here!  with updates and pics!

4.  Tooth locket story from a fellow teacher for a family of loose teeth, click here!

5.  These plastic tooth lockets maybe molds to make sterling jewelry at an Etsy shop, here!

6.  Pros and Cons of Organic Toothbrush Twig called, Miswak here

7.  Update on Miswak, here, yes I still love it and use it twice daily.  New update coming soon!

8.  Tooth Fairy Tooth Holders and Healthy Eating Art:  The Destiny of Things, Story 163, here 

Related Fortune Fish Stories:

1.  An Etsy buyer from NY sharing Fortune Fish with her college classmates as they study, Fortune Teller Miracle Fish by Cathryn Hankla:  The Destiny of Things, Story 152.  I also included some of my favorite passages, read it here 

2.  Fortune Teller Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story LXXXII, here used as party favors!

3.  Miracle Fish Fortune Teller Surprise Balls:  The Destiny of Things, Story XCII, here

4. A Little Girl and her Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story #112:  Part 1

5.  UPDATE on A Little Girl and her Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story #112, Part 2, here

6.  Underwater Birthday Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story 161, here

 

"Onwards and UPwards!" ---MDF Club

Kandi Candy Sweet Tart Beads: The Destiny of Things, Story 165

Kandi Candy Sweet Tart Beads:  The Destiny of Things, Story 165

Yes, I bought these because they reminded me of candy!

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here
more of my bead collection here

Sweet Tarts to be exact, but at the time I bought them I just picked them up and carried them straight to the cash register!  And I didn't just buy one package, I bought many! as if I was going to use that many?

And why did I buy so many?  At the time, as a recovering hoarder, I didn't think about it or have a clue, I just bought them because I liked them!!!!  Yikes!

It's this type of unconscious retail therapy that has gotten me dehoarding in the first place.  At the time I bought them I wasn't aware as to "WHY" I was buying them, except that I like them!  Now that I have several packages of these and my bead box is overflowing, I bought them because they reminded me of candy, specifically Sweet Tarts!  Remember those?

and Smarties?

Here I am well past my childhood buying beads without thinking because they remind me of candy!  I have no idea what it means... perhaps just a nostalgic grab from my childhood past?  Am I going to return to beading? or was it more unconscious retail therapy that just adds to my hoard?

I think it was the later.

Anyways, an Etsy buyer bought and later thanked me and said it was going to be perfect for their Kandi! I had no idea about "kandi."

From the Urban Dictionary:

Kandi

Could be bracelets, necklaces, headbands, cuffs, all made from chunky beads. Pony beads, colorful beads, plushy animals, sometimes have attachments, such as pacifiers. Given away at raves, or elsewhere, by people who live by PLUR, Peace, Love, Unity and Respect. Wonderful forms of friendship and kandi is a great way to create lasting memories. 

Person one: "I made a piece of Kandi for you!"

Person two: "Aww, k*otic, you didn't have to!"

Person one: "Just wanted to show some PLUR" 

and I found this, 12 Steps to Being a Kandi Girl.  Step 7 was to "hoard sugar!" Interesting. Another step was to make enough kandi bracelets for a Rave to share or trade.

Then there is PLUR, Peace, Love, Unity and Respect.  Within the PLUR movement, there can be a symbolic handshake that rave-goers exchange with one another.  This handshake usually includes passing handmade kandi bracelets.  Information from wikipedia, here.

• Peace – Hostility typically serves no purpose other than to defend an ego that is lacking inner peace. It is a common belief among the rave culture that violence is never the answer.
• Love – Acts and feelings of goodwill towards all others. The exchange of gestures such as hugging can be seen in immense amounts at any rave; this being a way of "spreading the love."
• Unity – We are all united in the human condition.
• Respect – A person must show regard for the feelings of others through their actions and inaction, and one must have respect for oneself and the environment.

Origins:  PLUR dates back to the late 80s and early 90s rave scene in the UK which incorporated House and Acid House music that originated in Chicago during the 80's. The term began as an informal discussion on alt.rave and alt.culture.

SF-raves mailing list archived at hyperreal also noted the use of the term and there is a flyer archive which would be worth trawling for evidence of the existence of PLUR. It should be noted that the term is really an aggregation of ideas synonymous with the earlier hippies and also hip hop culture, with the peace movement being an essential starting point to any be-in encounter or rave.

May also be related to UBUNTU philosophy: human-ness, humanity towards others or human kindness popularized by Nelson Mandela's presidency in 1994 and Desmond Tutu in 1999.

photo via JunkDrawerLoveEtsy, available here
more of my bead collection here

Saying Goodbye:  I'm extremely happy to let these go and if they are going to handmade kandi jewelry, what fun!  In one way, as a recovering hoarder, it feels as though I'm fixing a mistake or making an old habit of mine more clear.

I wonder how many other things I "just" buy because I like them that are some how related to my past.  I'm thankful, as a recovering hoarder, I have come to this discovery, so I can be more mindful of what I purchase because I have hoards of stuff like this!

What I Learned:  

1.  Lately I seem to collect beads that remind me of my candy from my childhood.  This information about myself is very helpful towards my dehoarding of not adding to my hoard!

2.  There is a kandi culture out there making handmade jewelry.  Interesting.

3.  I was watching House of Cards, last night and Freddy who was so close to having his BBQ joint turn into a franchise loses it as quickly as a toss of a coin when compared to his decades of keeping it as his livelihood.  

His long standing connection with Francis Underwood, now the Vice President who has been eating their just as long brings his restaurant to it's pinnacle as well as part of it's downfall and both seem to lose a long standing type of odd grace between them.

Before Freddy locks up for the last time and hands off the keys to it's new owner, he is asked if he wants to keep a memento and Freddy says, "Na, I ain't one for lookin back.  Eyes ahead."

I was so awe struck by his words and wonder if the hoarder part of me can do the same, just not look back. Live the moment.

Thank you Etsy buyer for living me a little clue about kandi because it left me a clue to my hoarding ways and how I can be a more conscious buyer myself and how my hoard turns into more hoard!

Thank you Etsy for helping me with my hoard and for the outside connections that help me make more inward connections about myself.

Thank you US, China, Bulgaria, Canada, India, Australia, Denmark, UK, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Belgium, Norway, Poland and Russia for your visits over the weekend and and taking part in my HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things! 

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things, VintageToGoEtsy and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy!  There are about 100 items listed on JunkDrawerLoveEtsy and will resume new listings in a few days and will continue to relist 1-2 items at the other shops!

Thanks for looking!  Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too! 

Related Stories:  Things I most likely bought in relation to my past...

1.  Koi Charm and Japanese Deer Park, Orange County, California:  The Destiny of Things, Story #137 

2.  Retro Plastic Mermaid Cocktail Drink Charms:  The Destiny of Things, Story #116 

3.  A Little Girl and her Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story #112

"To improve is to change; to perfect is to change often." ---Winston Churchill

Eternally Yours Fork and Spoons: The Destiny of Things, Story 164

Eternally Yours Fork and Spoons:  The Destiny of Things, Story 164

I love the name of this silverware and the pattern!

photo via The Destiny of Things, last three spoons available here

Here's another collection I started, but didn't finish and I'm so thankful I didn't!  I think I started it because I could be just like my mom in some old fashioned nostalgic way and have silverware to go with my Grandmother's China dish sets.

I could not afford "real" sterling silverware like my Mom, so I opted for the Eternally Yours pattern by 1847 Roger Bros that is still affordable.

However, around the time I started collecting this silverware I became bedridden sick and became allergic to most everything, except filtered water without chlorine and touching any kind of metal was very unpleasant.  Imagine every doorknob and faucet I had to touch, which was mainly the bathroom and kitchen since I didn't leave the bed much covered in plastic bags!

My Grandmother's china dish set was off limits too because both sets are rimmed in platinum.  Plastic utensils became my new best friend!

Slowly my allergies have gone away from many detoxes and I can touch most metals now, except for sterling or silver plate and I can thankfully digest more than water now.

I've waited over three years to be able to touch silver and still no go, so I've not only let go of this collection of silverware, but my sterling Native American collection and most of my other jewelry too!

photo via The Destiny of Things, forks SOLD OUT!  Thanks to Etsy buyer!

An Etsy buyer came and needed these forks for her daughter's bridal shower pronto!  Luckily we live in the same state and thanks to USPS, it got there in a jiffy.  Interestingly enough, the buyer and I had a kind of instant connection and later she returned for some of the spoons!

photo via The Destiny of Things, last three spoons available here

I am so thankful my hoard is finding new lives in such special ways, such as an heirloom set for a bride!  I am also thankful for the many "happy" sales where I feel a positive connection with a buyer who is just as happy to receive it as I am to see it off!

Saying Goodbye:  I think I'm finally back on course with dehoarding painlessly.  I've been sleeping long hours the past month, so maybe not having insomnia is helping me.  I don't think I've slept so much in my life and find catching up with sleep very time consuming, but necessary for my overall health.

I'd like to know when I'll know when enough sleep is enough.  I suppose it will be the same way when I know dehoarding will be done too.

What I Learned:

1.  I've always wondered what the IS on the back of the Eternally Yours silverware meant and this is what I found from Replacements, Ltd:

IS are the initials of International Silver, which  started as a combination of 14 of America’s greatest silver manufacturers. The American northeast was home to many companies that, over time, developed a reputation for producing quality sterling, silverplate, and stainless dinnerware.

During the Colonial period, each of the flatware manufacturers settled in the American northeast, predominantly, in Connecticut. For the most part, these companies dealt in producing metal alloy and sterling pieces.

During this period, the predominant form of silverware was pewter. Pewter, a metal alloy, was popular, although, not durable. Meriden Britannia introduced a stronger alloy that was deemed “britanniaware.” Britanniaware was popular because of its malleable, yet, durable qualities.

In 1847, Rogers Brothers introduced a line of “electroplated” silver pieces. The formula for producing a durable, plated flatware had taken many years to perfect. The first pattern to be marketed as a “fancy plated flatware” was Olive. Although discontinued, this antiquated pattern can readily be found and is available through Replacements.

Meriden Britannia and Rogers Brothers, decided that it would be to the advantage of all to organize a cartel of silverware manufacturers and to share industry secrets. In 1898, this cartel became a reality with the joining of 14 silver producers into one corporation. The largest of these were Holmes and Edwards, Meriden Britannia, and Rogers Brothers.

The merger of 1898 proved to be efficient and successful. However, the new company failed to produce any record breaking flatware sales. It wasn’t until 1939, when International Silver introduced the Joan of Arc line that the company’s sales began to increase. In 1940, International would experience more astronomical growth with the introduction of Prelude.

Throughout the years, International Silver has remained immensely popular. In 1968, International Silver was absorbed into the Insilco holding company. In 1976, the making of sterling hollowware was completely discontinued and International Silver’s plated hollowware division was sold to Oneida.

During the mid-1980’s, Katy Industries purchased International Silver and merged the company with Wallace Silversmiths. Later, the Wallace name and International name became separate entities when Syratech Corporation purchased Katy Industries flatware holdings. Today, both Wallace and International remain part of Syratech.

And there you have it, more information than I ever wanted to know, but now my curiosity is gone.

Thank you Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things for you story, positive connection and return!  I hope all my dehoarding is as painless and joyful as our transactions!

Thank you Etsy for connecting over 580 of my hoarded items with new lives and better homes to make my home more beautiful and manageable too!  Gotta love win win situations!  Thanks!

Thank you US, UK, India, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Lebanon, Norway and Russia for your support as I journey through my HoarderRehab and  The Destiny of Things!

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things and VintageToGoEtsy and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy!  There are about 99 items listed on JunkDrawerLoveEtsy and will be listing 1-2 new things there daily and 1-2 items at the other shops!  Keep an eye open for my handmade things which is my alternative to hoarding now!  Thanks for looking!

Still available, the 1847 Roger Bros. Eternally Yours pattern spoons here. Thank you! 

 Related Stories:  The Destiny of Things as symbols of LOVE!

1.  My first Eternally Yours story that mirrors mine, read it here

2.  Coincidental Wedding Anniversary Stories of Copper Sacred Heart Tins, click here for the story!

3.  A Trinket Box turned into Wedding Ring Box, click here to read the story!

4.  Wedding Jars, for a candy bar, instead of an alcohol bar.

5.  Fun Love Dice Anniversary gift and update here! 

Most Read Story of the Week:   80s Rainbow Works Educational Cards:  The Destiny of Things, Story 162, read it here 

Most Read Story of the Month:  My Organic Toothbrush Stick called Miswak  I'm still using the same stick twig after 8 months and still loving it!  My Miswak Toothbrush Update, three months later. 

All Time Most Read Story:  My Louis Vuitton Collection the end of mine for the beginning of someone else.  The last piece of my LV collection, my 80s LV gold cornered wallet is available here at The Destiny of Things! 

"Harmony.  It's not what's lasting or permanent.  It is about individual voices coming together for a moment.  And that moment lasts a length of a breath, or in my instance a transaction.  That's what I think about my time here."---Frank Underwood from House of Cards or in my case, I think it's "destiny, as well as harmony."

See my latest washi tape collage art pertaining to this quote here!  I love collage art as my new alternative to hoarding! And coincidentally the quote is typed out using my Underwood vintage typewriter!

Tooth Fairy Tooth Holders and Healthy Eating Art: The Destiny of Things, Story 163

Tooth Fairy Tooth Holders and Healthy Eating Art:  The Destiny of Things, Story 163

All the way to the UK!

photo via JunkDrawerLove, more available here

These are going to a niece that's tooth fairy age and the rest are going to be party of a healthy eating art project this year!  How fun!

My third grade students always loved these and I used them to to promote healthy teeth as a motivational tool at the introduction lesson and that ties into healthy eating!  Everyone got one and I had the treasure chests too to give out at the end of the lesson.

photo via VintageToGoEasy, more available here

And if your tooth fell out during school time, you got your choice to keep your tooth in to make it home safely for the tooth fairy.  I had many of these left from teaching and hope to use them in some of my art too!

I wonder how they will be used to promote healthy eating art in the United Kingdom, but I'm sure it's going to be fun using them!

Here's the link to some of the other art projects taken place on the blog, Blackpool Culture shops:

http://blackpoolcultureshops.wordpress.com/

and their facebook link too:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Evoes-Pet-Shop-Central-Drive-Blackpool/402029496559706

Maybe one day I'll see the tooth fairy tooth lockets in an art project promoting healthy eating by children!  How fun, I would love that!

Know any toothless grins this coming Saint Patty's day? photo via Hoarder Rehab, available here

Saying Goodbye:  I have my own stash of these put aside for my own art projects one day and am happy that these bring back memories for some and make new memories for others.

What I Learned:

1.  Many of the same things I loved from my childhood are still loved by children of today, like these tooth savers, tooth saver chests, Fortune Fish, my childhood folk art dolls, etc.

2.  I'm not the only one who would use these in an art project and would love to see what others do as well!

How would you use them in art?  

Thank you Etsy buyer artist from the UK for your order at Hoarder Rehab and taking part in my Hoarder Rehab in such a big way!

Thank you Etsy for not only finding new lives for my hoard, but finding a healthy outlet for them too!

Thank you US, China, Philippines, Canada, UK, India and Ukraine for your visits and reading many of my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things adventures!   

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things, VintageToGoEasy and now JunkDrawerLove!  There are about 97 items listed on JunkDrawerLove and relistings to each shops daily and adding new listings weekly to all shops too!  Thanks for looking!

Maybe you'll find something and give it a new life and share your story with me!  

Related Stories:  

1.  For a good old fashioned Halloween party without candy in a tree house, read here!

2.  These shipped out ASAP for a loose tooth! Read about it here

3.  A mother hunts down these tooth lockets for her daughter's presentation here!  with updates and pics!

4.  Tooth locket story from a fellow teacher for a family of loose teeth, click here!

5.  These plastic tooth lockets maybe molds to make sterling jewelry at an Etsy shop, here!

6.  Pros and Cons of Organic Toothbrush Twig called, Miswak here

7.  Update on Miswak, here, yes I still love it and use it twice daily.  New update coming soon!

 

"Take a moment and remember your own toothless grin!"

80s Rainbow Works Educational Cards: The Destiny of Things, Story 162

80s Rainbow Works Educational Cards:  The Destiny of Things, Story 162

These traveled all the way to Australia too!

photo via Etsy shop, Hoarder Rehab, more educational teacher destash here

Just like the last Friday's posting, (I try to post every Mon, Wed and Fri as 3 times a week therapy) about an Underwater theme party in AU, read it here, these just happened to find a new home there too!

Kennedy Miranda 

 

Jan 7, 2014

 

Hi! Okay, I will add shipping costs for you. I am sorry shipping with tracking is so much to Australia.

We can not be responsible for the item once we mail it to you without tracking or insurance, but we have shipped several packages to AU without issues or extra custom delays and costs, but not so lucky with some other countries.

Thank you for your order! Are you a teacher and using these in the classroom? I just had to ask as a curious recovering hoarder!

Kind regards,
~Kennedy at
www.etsy.com/shop/HoarderRehab
www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings
www.etsy.com/shop/vintagetogoetsy
www.etsy.com/pt/shop/JunkDrawerLoveEtsy

Read 140+ stories from Etsy buyers who help me stay focused on my HoarderRehab!

hoarderrehab.blogspot.com

 photo via Etsy shop, Hoarder Rehab, more educational teacher destash here

Hi Kennedy,

Shipping costs are very high indeed! Thanks for sorting the costs. I appreciate it! Yes, I am a teacher and the school term will begin in a couple of weeks time. I really look forward to receiving the cards and using them in the classroom!

I admit I am a hoarder too... Just not quite ready for rehab !!

 

Kennedy Miranda 

 

Jan 7, 2014

 

Hi! I used to be an inner city teacher in Los Angeles and as a recovering hoarder, I am so happy to hear these will be used in a classroom by a teacher in Australia! I will discount 10% of your order because I think all teachers deserve a little break and will also send as many of my teacher destash stickers before the weight changes any shipping costs!

If you don't mind me asking what grade you teach?

It took me 30 years to rehab my hoarding ways! I still have a hard time believing all the teacher stuff I still have after donating a three car garage full when I retired! Not to mention all the other stuff I've accumulated!

I hope I can use your story on my blog and I will leave you anonymous.

Enjoy your time off and best wishes towards your new school year!

Kindest regards,
~Kennedy at
www.etsy.com/shop/HoarderRehab
www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings
www.etsy.com/shop/vintagetogoetsy
www.etsy.com/pt/shop/JunkDrawerLoveEtsy

Read 140+ stories from Etsy buyers who help me stay focused on my HoarderRehab!

hoarderrehab.blogspot.com

 

Jan 7, 2014

 

Thanks very much Kennedy.

I'm very grateful. I teach kindergarten in Sydney and I'm always on the lookout for wonderful teaching resources for the classroom! Of course you can blog to your hearts content and I do appreciate the anonymity.

All the best for the NewYear!
Many thanks!

photo via Etsy shop, Hoarder Rehab, more educational teacher destash here

I'm working on my motivation to write a posting on shipping as a techless Etsy newbie hoarder, but it's a lot of quite daunting information and somewhat boring yet necessary as an Etsy shop owner.  If you are curious, a package like this with tracking cost about $25.00 to ship to AU and it was about $10.00 without tracking.

USPS shipping is mind boggling and basically goes by four criteria: zip code, type of package, dimensions and weight. All I can say is I can barely navigate my way around Etsy, so you can imagine me on the USPS site!  It's a whole new apple and orange world over there!

I hope the Rainbow Works Ways to Go made it there safe and sound and is providing some intriguing fun in a classroom now!

photo via Etsy shop, Hoarder Rehab, more educational teacher destash here 

Saying Goodbye:  I still have plenty of teacher educational items to list, despite my mega purge when I retired, so I am still in good company with much of it.  The test of time will be when I get to the bottom last item of it. 

What I Learned:

1.  It's good to hear, I'm not the only "admitted" hoarder around!

2.  It's easy to be a hoarder as a teacher because every student's needs are different and getting to know them and figuring how to best learn with them is like a complicated puzzle at times.  There are so many factors to consider besides motivation, interests, modality, English level, curriculum level, etc, even favorite color can be helpful in finding common grounds!

I mean, one would be surprised what one highly motivated tactile learner could learn from these "Ways To Go" cards.  Even though they say they are for pre school, "Ways to Travel" used to be a third grade standard along with the Seven Seas and Continents.

I was an inner city third grade teacher but my students ranged from mostly Spanish only readers to a handful of English readers and when I first start teaching third grade, many didn't know the alphabet in either language, so cards like these came in handy.

3.  I noticed I have many educational items still new in their package.  I think it's because I bought multiples because for me it was not easy finding resources, so when I found them I just bought them!  Also, I taught at year round schools and each teacher never had their own classroom.  Two or three classrooms were always shared by 3-4 roving rotating teachers.  Sometimes it was just easier to keep the same thing in each class, instead of digging around for it when I needed it!

I am so happy those days are long gone and hope teaching is less complicated now.

As a child, what was your favorite educational toy?  I think mine were games and songs!  It was so much easier and fun learning and practicing with a game or song.  I think I still have the Billy Goat's Gruff Rap still memorized from years of teaching it  in the 90s as a different version to a traditional folk story.

Here we go, here we go, kick it!  "Way up in the mountains all covered in snow, was a place were people didn't like to go, it was dangerous and scary, but that wasn't the reason why everyone avoided it in any season.... Nobody liked the rickety bridge that crossed the river at the highest ridge..."  The Rough Gruff Goat Brothers Rap by Jean Chardiet.

Thank you Etsy buyer from Australia via Hoarder Rehab for your story to help me with mine!  Kudos to all teachers "out there" either in the trenches or not!

Thank you Etsy for helping me find new lives and home for my hoard and for helping me break my chains!

Thank you US, United Arab Emirates, China, Slovakia, Canada, Lithuania, Russia, UK, India, Japan, Turkey and others for your weekend visits and joining me in my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things adventures!   
 

Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things, VintageToGoEasy and now JunkDrawerLove!  There are about 97 items listed on JunkDrawerLove and relistings to each shops daily and adding new listings weekly to all shops too!  Thanks for looking!

Maybe you'll find something to and give it a new life and share your story with me!

Related Stories:  More inner city teacher stories from hoarded teacher realia!

1.  Freddie the Frog:  Forgiving my inner city teacher past! Read here 

2.  Puffer Fish Boy Friend Christmas Gift:  Best student realia ever, read about it here   

3.  Receipt Spike and Service Bell:  Some of the best teacher tools ever

4.  How to Use 100 Corks:  Free teacher resource from my family and friends, here

5.  Polaroid Camera Story:  teacher memories of trials and tribulations!

6.  US Puzzle Maps here, more funny dark truthful funny teacher drama trauma! 

7.  90s Dixon Ticonderoga ORIOLE 267 Pencil Artist
 

8.  Tiny Erasers Vintage 80s Taiwan:  The Destiny of Things, Story #138

Thanks for stopping bye!

"Rule number one is get your work done and rule number two is to hell with it." -- Ray Bradbury quote to Stuart Gordon, I read in the article, Stuart Gordon: H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury and the Museum of Jurassic Technology  By Jeremy Rosenberg 

Underwater Birthday Miracle Fish: The Destiny of Things, Story 161

Underwater Birthday Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story 161

From California to Australia for an underwater theme event and came with photo updates!

photo via The Destiny of Things, available here

This Etsy buyers used the fish in a totally different way for her Underwater themed birthday bash for a lucky special someone!

This was around Christmas time and my blog stories seem to be getting lost and mixed up as I am catching up on sleep and have basically ditched my monthly, weekly and daily planner and have gone rogue with my "to do" lists!

Anyways, we often give shipping refunds and this Etsy buyer noticed it, but thought something was wrong with her order and emailed us about it and then one thing lead to another and I kindly received a story with photos from Australia!

Here's our email exchange: 

From Australia:

Thanks. I so glad there isn't a problem. Thanks for posting them quickly! I must admit I've been having way too much fun with the theme. :)

Kennedy Miranda

Nov 21, 2013

Hi!

Same here, but with Etsy's Geometric Tree Advent Calendar! I'd love to see pix of your theme, if you have the time! :)

Thanks!

From Australia:

Nov 30, 2013

 

I love your hoarder rehab idea. We're on the same path with what I'm beginning to do with my children for advent. An act of kindness each day. Today's task is to make a bag of pre loved things that could be loved again (for the opportunity shop). Mine are all cook books and knitting books! The fish were well received. I'll post on feedback.

That's a photo of the creative cake from the underwater theme party of a party submerged octopus and the fish that I lost and techless me can't get back yet!  I'll show larger photos down the ways!

Kennedy Miranda

Nov 30, 2013

 

Hi! Thank you for your email and inspiration! I love your Advent ideas of acts of kindness and will save it for next Christmas or for an Easter or birthday count down Advent same kind of thing!

I am so happy to hear the fish were well received and thank you for the awesome photos all the way from AU! I love the octopus cake, so cute! Looks too cute to eat up! And your mysteries of the ocean deep fish swim! I hope I can use them on my blog! I will leave you anonymous.

Thank you for the feedback too!
Best regards,
~Kennedy at
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Here's a larger photo of the Underwater Clever Partly Submerged Octopus Cake!

 photo via Etsy buyer in Australia!  I wonder if that cake is Ding Dong style!

I love her Advent idea.  Now if only I could give so freely and donate because I tend to buy it right back in one form or way or another!  I've purged my hoard through donations so many times through out my life until it's repeated pattern has became an obvious unknown irrelevant solution for me.  

What to do?  Dissipating my hoard through Etsy and writing about the stories behind the purchase and how they relate to my Hoarder Rehab has been the best solution for me so far!  I am so thankful for many who have shared their stories with me to help me with mine, it's been an incredible journey!

  How she created this underwater illusion is beyond me, yet very peaceful and I see my fortune fish added some nice color to it.  Photo via Etsy buyer in Australia

There are all kinds of ideas swimming around out there for these Miracle Fish!  Personally I love the graphics and wonder if it's because it's from my time or if it's the graphics.

photo via The Destiny of Things, available here

Saying Goodbye:  Of course, I have my own stash of these because I give them out to anyone who orders something from my Etsy shops as a "thank you" to them and as a reminder for me that my Hoarder Rehab is leading into the mysterious unknown!

photo via The Destiny of Things,  free with any order or available here

Also I keep some in my backpack for handing out to children and other people who might need the random distraction of happiness these little dancing fish can give to those enchanted by simple magic!

And I am so thankful that others find them just as enchanting and find other uses for them too!

What I Learned:

1.  These little guys have never grown old for me and seem to live on in other people's lives too!  So far, I've gotten email stories from people using them in Surprise Balls, party favors for a birthday mystery party, someone in NY passing them out to college classmates who didn't know they still existed, while studying Catheryn Hankla's short story book, Miracle Fish Fortune Teller, a little 3 year old girl enchanted by them, and who know what else from stories I didn't reciveve!

And I use them all the time as mentioned above and seem to have quite the collection of fortune teller paper ephemera now!

2.  It boggles my mind and I am so thankful that there are so many creative people "out there" and many of them share their ideas with me to share here on my Hoarder Rehab blog.

What's your latest and greatest creative ideas or doings?  Mine have been going back to my washi tape collage art as an alternative to spending my time hoarding and/or retail therapy!

This print is the first in a series of reversible washi tape collage art inspired by a quote I heard from Francis Underwood on the Netflix series, House of Cards.  Print available here  with more photos!

Thank you Etsy buyer from Australia for spending some time with me and sending your story.  Thank you for your ideas that I hope will bring more ideas to whoever stops by and read this!

Thank you Etsy for finding over 580 of my hoarded items new lives and better homes and over 160+ warm connections that are helping with my Hoarder Rehab and taking me to a place where a different positive unknown journey is more than welcome!

Thank you US, Germany, Indonesia, Canada, China, United Kingdom, Taiwan, and all others that have visited since Wednesday and are supporting my  HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things adventures!  


Click on the shop names to visit my hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab,  The Destiny of Things, VintageToGoEasy and now JunkDrawerLove!  There are about 102 items listed on JunkDrawerLove and relistings to each shops daily and adding new listings weekly to all shops too!  Thanks for looking!

Maybe you'll find something to and give it a new life and share your story with me! 

Related Stories:

1.  An Etsy buyer from NY sharing Fortune Fish with her college classmates as they study, Fortune Teller Miracle Fish by Cathryn Hankla:  The Destiny of Things, Story 152.  I also included some of my favorite passages, read it here 

2.  Fortune Teller Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story LXXXII, here used as party favors!

3.  Miracle Fish Fortune Teller Surprise Balls:  The Destiny of Things, Story XCII, here

4. A Little Girl and her Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story #112:  Part 1

5.  UPDATE on A Little Girl and her Miracle Fish:  The Destiny of Things, Story #112, Part 2, here

 

Most Read Story of the Week:  Green Glass Coca Cola Cups by Libbey:  The Destiny of Things, Story 159, Read it here

Most Read Story of the Month:  Instant Organic Toothbrush - Miswak - No Toothpaste Needed:  HoarderRehab Review #3, Read it here

 

Most Read Story of All Time:  My Louis Vuitton Collection: the end of my collection is the beginning for someone else.  The last piece of my LV collection, my 80s LV gold cornered wallet is available here at The Destiny of Things!   

 

Thanks for stopping bye! and Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours!

 

"Harmony.  It's not what's lasting or permanent.  It is about individual voices coming together for a moment.  And that moment lasts a length of a breath, or in my instance a transaction.  That's what I think about my time here."---Frank Underwood from House of Cards or in my case, I think it's "destiny, as well as harmony."