Sometimes inspirational support comes from out of no where, like in an Etsy email:
Hi Kennedy...
I must confess that I have
been pouring over your shops and reading through your blog for HOURS!
I'm a teacher too and a mother, so I totally relate to the "oh, these
will come in handy one day" thoughts.
Love your candid writing style and
your pictures are beautiful too. You have such neat stuff!!! all the
little treasures and trinkets from my childhood... like those tooth
savers and plastic gumball containers... I used to get so excited about a
quarter because I LOVED those containers, more than any bouncy ball or
trinket inside. I just loved the container for making little secret
capsules filled with stickers and mini erasers and whatever other little
things I could get my hands on.
I am so sympathetic (and jealous!) of
your hoarded treasures... we would have been great friends, growing up!
Wishing you much continued success with your shops and decluttering...
and If I ever win the lottery, I am buying your house with the full
contents! :)
Love, Domenica from Crystal Energy Canada
Tooth saver locket necklaces, available here
photo via JunkDrawerandMore
Here's what I wrote back:
Hi Domenica!!!!
Thank you so much for emailing me, stopping by and reading my blog too! I can't believe it!!! What a nice surprise!
Thanks for making me smile over things we have in common! like loving the gumball capsule more than the prizes and as a teacher I'm sure you also have these other thoughts too, "oh these will come in handy one day in sets of 30!!! Must buy now" I'll be so happy when all of my teacher destash finds new lives and homes.
I would have loved to spend my childhood allowance on gumball prizes, but we weren't allowed. I'm sure some of my hoarding issues stem from that! HA!
And I hope you win the lottery soon! You are so sweet and funny!
May you have continued growth and abundance at your beautiful crystal and jewelry shop!
Kindest regards,
Kennedy
PS. Can I use your email on my blog? I'll leave you anonymous or link your shop to it. Thanks for making my day!
Thank you so much for emailing me, stopping by and reading my blog too! I can't believe it!!! What a nice surprise!
Thanks for making me smile over things we have in common! like loving the gumball capsule more than the prizes and as a teacher I'm sure you also have these other thoughts too, "oh these will come in handy one day in sets of 30!!! Must buy now" I'll be so happy when all of my teacher destash finds new lives and homes.
I would have loved to spend my childhood allowance on gumball prizes, but we weren't allowed. I'm sure some of my hoarding issues stem from that! HA!
And I hope you win the lottery soon! You are so sweet and funny!
May you have continued growth and abundance at your beautiful crystal and jewelry shop!
Kindest regards,
Kennedy
PS. Can I use your email on my blog? I'll leave you anonymous or link your shop to it. Thanks for making my day!
Gumball machine capsules ready to fill to heart's desire
photo via Hoarder Rehab
As a recovering hoarder, an out of the blue
email about my dehoarding can't get any funnier or more fun! I am so
happy to find something in common with someone who loves quarters just
as me just for the gumball toy prize machines! but would rather fill up
the gumball capsules with her own mini treasures!
I
still do! And I have one on going art project with my childhood
treasures in gumball capsules and I keep them in an old penny gumball
machine my brother and I used to fight over after finding it long ago
thrifting.
I keep hoarded stuff from my childhood
that I just can not part with but have no ideas of what to do with them
yet. like my childhood lucky hopscotch chain bracelet, my first brooch
from a major department store ( I felt so grown up!), very old worry
dolls from my Grandmother, jewelry I can't part with yet, like my
favorite sterling charm that's a gumball machine and my lucky Native
American Zuni SunGod pendant that was so magic I could play Around the
World, Horse and 21 and either win very quickly or skunk the other
player!
Gumball machine capsules ready to fill to heart's desire
photo via Hoarder Rehab
As a teacher, I still find myself contemplating buying stuff when I find them in packs of 30 or more! and I still save up stuff too, like toilet paper rolls and ice cream sticks because as a recovering hoarder I don't like seeing them go to waste and as a teacher these were as good as gold in the classroom!
My students loved turning toilet paper rolls and ice cream sticks into puppets to act out and write their own scripts, endings and everything in between for stories we were studying, poems they loved, like Solomon Grundy, everyday life that they could turn into extra ordinary.
Sometimes, as a recovering hoarder, I find out it so difficult to get of "teacher mode" because I still get excited over all the teaching ideas in my head and all the fun my students and I used to have, so much so, sometimes we'd work through recess and even miss lunch without knowing it!
30 or 40 toilet paper rolls, available here
39 recycled ice cream sticks: SOLD OUT
photo via JunkDrawerandMore
So until I I find a way to get out of buying or saving stuff in bulk when in teacher mode, I'll keep listing items on Etsy seem to help for other classroom teachers or others who use them as party favor supplies.
At least my items bring back memories for others and make new ones too! And super funny ones at that! and on going inside jokes!
Of course! It would be my honor to be
part of your blog. Btw you must have been the most loved teacher ever
with all those awesome stickers and rewards!!! I remember in the first
grade that scratch n sniff stickers were all the rage. My teacher gave
me a scratch and sniff hotdog sticker in my cursive writing book that
was the envy of the whole class. My mom said it smelled like B.O. Which i
didn't understand at the time but now my sister ( who is also a
teacher) and I rate body odor on a sliding scale with the highest
stinky honor being referred to as scratch n sniff hotdog B. O. Haha! I
wonder what my teacher would think about that!
Love, Domenica from Crystal Energy Canada
How fun and funny is that memory? and B.O. is such a classroom term! I haven't heard it in years!
These are vintage, but some of them used to be smelly stickers and a few have a faint whiff
that can be detected every now and then, available here
photo via The Destiny of Things
I love it! i still have some scratch and
sniff stickers from my 90s teaching days, but they are not the same as
when we grew up. I love your inside joke with your sister. ( I lost
count of teachers in my family! ) What grade do you teach? because the
BO after recess can be deadly in third grade!
I think you teacher would love to hear your BO story and you two could have some good laughs. I kept in touch with some of my teachers until middle school and still have some precious things they gave me! Total hoarder here!
Speaking of which, as a teacher during dental hygiene week, I could never decide if I should give my class the tooth locket necklaces or the treasure chests, so they got both! And they sure beat putting teeth in envelopes for them!
Thank you for letting me use your emails and you'll have to let me know which crystal is good for dehoarding, so I can post it on my blog!
You are my third kindred story from an Etsy shop owner this month,so I hope I can post them by the end of this month!
Have a good weekend!
I think you teacher would love to hear your BO story and you two could have some good laughs. I kept in touch with some of my teachers until middle school and still have some precious things they gave me! Total hoarder here!
Speaking of which, as a teacher during dental hygiene week, I could never decide if I should give my class the tooth locket necklaces or the treasure chests, so they got both! And they sure beat putting teeth in envelopes for them!
Thank you for letting me use your emails and you'll have to let me know which crystal is good for dehoarding, so I can post it on my blog!
You are my third kindred story from an Etsy shop owner this month,so I hope I can post them by the end of this month!
Have a good weekend!
Since I could never decide, if my students would love the toothy tooth saver locket necklaces or
the tooth saver treasure chests, they got both during dental hygiene week!
photo via JunkDrawerandMore
Well, that was a fun trip down memory lane with someone I would have had a blast growing up with! And I love her crystal shop too! There are plenty of crystals I've been eyeing in her shop! Like these for repelling negative energy, here so I don't return to my hoarding ways and these for energy and vitality, here to continue dehoarding!
This is exceptionally appealing to me for energy and vitality
photo via Domenica of Crystal Energy Canada, available here
Domenica recommends letting the crystals choose you and right now all the orange colored ones are calling out to me and secondly the fossil rocks. Read her about page, here.
I have quite the rock crystal collection since my grandfather collected them and I have collected them as souvenirs from many childhood vacation trips. And rocks left over from my teaching days and I have a good friend who sends me all kinds of pocket crystals for dehoarding, grounding, balance and they are good for me because I tend to fidget a lot when I get stressed out, so having a rock is a good reminder to slow down and focus on the good.
Maybe you'll find a crystal you need that is calling to you from Domenica's shop too! Here are the ones calling to me and they seem to be a rare set!
Rare set of harder to find crystals that are calling out to me. Are they calling out to you?
photo via Domenica of Crystal Energy Canada, available here
She also makes jewelry with healing crystals, so check out her cool and colorful meditation rosaries here, earrings and finger rings, here. I especially like her jewelry made from raw crystals. Okay, just check out her whole entire shop, Crystal Energy Canada because who knows what healing crystal is calling out to you!
What I Learned:
1. As a recovering hoarder, I have to be careful to what calls out to me because my internal filter seems to be broken, out of whack or lost and there's a lot of stuff calling out to me for some kind of attention! Pick me up, buy me, put me away, do something with me, just don't stand there, that's a good idea and so on and so on!
And the more stressed out I get the louder the clutter noise!
2. And after all these years, why am I still in teacher mode when out of shopping or recycling stuff from around the house? I don't miss much about teaching, except for the excitement and fun of potential new lessons!
3. On the bright side and lastly, it's so nice to get noticed out of the blue and for someone to take the time and say so! Thank you Domenica for taking the time to go exploring on all my shops and blog and then to take the time to send me such a fun and funny email full of compliments and encouragement to keep me going on my Hoarder Rehab journey!
Who inspired you today? and how did you inspire someone else today? Well, I'm sure you can guess who inspired me today, Domenica of Crystal Energy Canada and I hope I inspired someone with a few words from today's posting or from something I listed on my Etsy shops today.
If anything, tomorrow is Chinese New Year and we can take some time to reflect while looking back and then celebrate moving forward in hopes that people will connect and inspire at any time and the new year will bring abundance, health and happiness to all!
Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Related Stories:
2. Other stories in the section of "Today's Hoarder Rehab Epiphany," here
"Healing takes place where the light finds it's way into me." ---Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things
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