Monday, October 30, 2017

Mystic Seer Twilight Zone Halloween Machine Cards: The Destiny of Things, Story 487

Mystic Seer Twilight Zone Halloween Machine Cards:  The Destiny of Things, Story 487

Someone made a Twilight Zone Mystic Seer machine that uses these fortune cards!  BEFORE:

30 or 100 paper fortunes random mix set or COMPLETE SETS of 52 Swami Fortune teller cards, available here. Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

Here is the note I received with the photo:

Perfect for the mystic seer my husband made for our Halloween party!

photo via Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerAndMore

Where is the jealous button?  It looks so realistic!  I wonder what he made it out of?  Kudos to your husband!

Saying Goodbye:  We are running low in stock on these and won't be restocking them.  I have my own set of 52 saved for a rainy day, but now that hoarding has loosened it's grip on me, I might even sell mine too!

What I Learned:

1.  Letting go of my hoard on Etsy has really helped me to stop hoarding.  I've learned that I don't need all this stuff and quite frankly, I've learned I need very little.  It's taught me that my time is valuable and that I'd rather be doing other things, like helping people, rather than collecting more stuff or selling it.  It's taught me a lot about abundance and many other things.

2.  Now I can put so much into our recycle bin without regret, fear of missing out or fear that I'll need it as soon as I put in the bin!  Before it was only paper, now it's bottles, jars, even toilet paper rolls!  I'm moving ahead slowly but surely.

3.  Today I even have started a donation pile, which is how I started selling on Etsy in the first place.  I can laugh at myself about it now, but five years ago, my donation pile was growing into a hill top and not budging any closer to any donation station, so with a lot of help and encouragement, I started listing it all on Etsy.

So much of it sold, that my husband was in shock that anyone would want that stuff, and in a good way, we kept going.  In the beginning some of the items caused me great pain and anxiety as it went to it's new life and home and it took several years of letting go over and over and writing about it with this blog, until one day, all the pain and stress were gone and now I've reached a point where I feel like I'm sharing, rather than letting my hoard go.

I am so grateful to all the Etsy buyers and Etsy sellers who have sent me their stories, so I could collect those, instead of more things!  Plus the biggest bonus, is all the insight I received from each story they gave me and I posted on this blog.  Thank you so much everyone!

I still have so many more stories to share too!

I noticed each card is like a deck of cards and if sorted, they made a complete set of 52 cards, I only have a few left that are sorted and they are available here.  Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

Thank you Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerLoveAndMore for sharing your story and photo!  I just love the Mystic Seer your husband made.  It's so creative and looks like the original from the Twilight Zone show!  I hope it brings back old memories, while making new ones at your Halloween party!

Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy!   I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.

I've been spending more time in my junk room that is going to transform into a music room for my husband and an art room for me.  Also the truck is getting worked on in teeny tiny baby steps each weekend.  I've been sorting out a box a week out of the truck!
 
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!  And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!  I've been gleaning so much insight about my hoarding ways.

Do you recognize Captain Kirk? aka William Shatner

I am new listing weekly on all the shops, until I reach my goal of 180 items listed on each shop, but have slowed down due to other interests, mainly reading and exercising .  I can now exercise an hour a day.  Usually yoga and walks to the park down the street.  I feel as though I'm getting stronger and healthier as each day goes by!

Anyone out there have any thoughts, suggestions or ideas on how the new Etsy free shipping promotional is working for you at the moment?  Has it helped bump up your sales?  Do you foresee any complications with returned items and refunds?

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 178 items, The Destiny of Things- 181 items, VintageToGoEasy - 181 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 167 items.

Yipee!  I've met my goal at two shops!  Two more shops to go!  Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!

Here is another Mystic Seer someone made!  Replica of the Mystic Seer prop from the Twilight Zone episode, photo via Captain Toy.  Michael gives a thorough and enchanting review of it and there are many more photos to see.

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Here is what the napkin dispenser machine looks like from the old 50s diners
photo via blog, Made By Paper 

"Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind." -ACIM

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Day of the Dead Loteria Card Art Dresser and Wedding Gift Candle Holders: The Destiny of Things, Story 485 and 486

Day of the Dead Loteria Card Art Dresser and Wedding Gift Candle Holders:  The Destiny of Things, Story  485 and 486

Etsy buyer ideas and more for Day of the Dead Loteria Art Projects!  Start now!  BEFORE:
So many fun projects to create, after you play the game!
DIY 54 cards & 10 boards Loteria Mexican Bingo Game Day of the Dead Fiesta, available here

This Etsy buyer ordered many things that brought back memories!  Here is the note from that person.  Long ago, they redid their dresser with loteria cards and now they have more to redo something else!

I remember when I used to have a ton of those little animal figurines that I got on my drink at a Sonic type of drive in. We went there for lunch during school. I remember them fondly and it will be fun to have some again. And I have a bedside table that I redid in a kitschy way with loteria cards years ago. I'm thinking my dresser could use a little personality now 😊. Since I don't live in Texas anymore (yay), I'll have to get my loteria cards from you. I love kitsch! Thanks for having a store that helps me scratch my kitsch itch, haha! 

Just in case, you are curious about the Sonic animal figurines as drink toppers, here's a photo!

She wanted a giraffe added in, so we did that too!
6 plastic animal figurines cocktail wine charms zoo circus carnival drink cake toppers, available here

Here is the photo of her re purposed kitschy dresser using loteria cards! So festive looking!

Here is what she said about her project, "And I'm very proud that my little, crazy nightstand I redid will be on your blog. Too bad I don't have before pictures to give to you too. It was soooo ugly!"
I am so thankful it's on my blog too, I hope it gives someone inspiration to make something they think is ugly into something beautifully kitschy!"
DIY 54 cards & 10 boards Loteria Mexican Bingo Game Day of the Dead Fiesta, available here
photo via JunkDrawerLoveAndMore

Another Etsy buyers bought the Loteria game set to make her friend a wedding gift!  Here is her note:

Hi! I purchased these Loteria cards to make a wedding gift for a couple that has a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) themed home. I plan to hand pick cards from the deck and put them on glass candle votives.

A Day of the Dead home!  I'd love to see that!  and of course, I'd love to see the candle holders in their home too!  I wonder what the candle holders ended up looking like.  I just love the look and relaxation of burning candles and it seems my allergies to smoke are almost gone and I can burn some candles now.  

I found some easy DIY candle holders on google.  Here is the one I imagine the wedding gift one might look like, since she said glass votive holders:

These look fun and easy to make, since you just need to cut the game board into little cards, glue them on and add glitter glue to the edges.

Here is another simple one to make as centerpieces for a fiesta event!

I just love how they used the beans and how it also holds the card in place.

Saying Goodbye:  In the late 80s to 90s, I used to have a Day of the Dead home.  Back then, I collected a hoard of Mexican Folk Art and Taxco jewelry.  Most of it has found new lives and homes, what's left is still available at three of the shops, VintageToGoEasy, here, on HoarderRehab, here and The Destiny of Things, here, or do a search in the shop using either Day of the Dead, Taxco or Mexican Folk Art.

This loteria game set has extra games on the back of each game board and on the back of each card are the riddle in Spanish to call out to play like bingo, available here

What I Learned:

1.   I just love it when Etsy buyers share their projects through photos or ideas!  It makes Etsy so much more fun!  And I hope it inspires others to build on their ideas and be creative!

2.  I think this loteria game set is very flextible for lots of different creative projects because I have received so many project ideas and final products from Etsy buyers, from wedding programs to wedding seating to wedding centerpieces, so many other projects that I can't remember them all!

Let's see what I can remember:  cake toppers, gift tags, invitations, gift bags, garlands, wedding exit confetti bags, even drinking games!  Most of them are easy to make too!

What has inspired you today?  I have found so much inspiration today, I don't know where to start!

Here is an easy example for cake or cupcake toppers using the cut up game board cards, available here

Here is a more complicated, but beautiful place seating arrangement for a wedding.  This Etsy buyer bought a lot of games to make this, I can't remember how many games she ordered, but she bought us out!

Right now, we have 2 sets of the deck of cards of 54 only that do not include the game boards, available at HoarderRehab, here

Thank you Etsy buyers from JunkDrawerLoveAndMore for allowing me to share your stories and for a cool photo of ad re purpose furniture with loteria cards!  And inspiration for DIY loteria card candle holder wedding gifts!  Thankful that so many are bringing back old memories, while making new ones!

Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy!   I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.

For example last week, I made a new friend from an Etsy buyer and she's been such an inspirational motivator towards my dehoarding goals and reminding me of my life without hoard dreams!

I've been spending more time in my junk room that is going to transform into a music room for my husband and an art room for me.  Also the truck is getting worked on in teeny tiny baby steps each weekend.
 
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!  And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!  I've been gleaning so much insight about my hoarding ways.

I use the game boards to make these boxes for many things, from holding my loteria art cards, junk grab box, gift and party favor boxes.  One Etsy buyer used them as part of her centerpieces for her fiesta wedding.  4x3 boxes ready to ship, available here

I was new listing daily at least on one or two shops, but have slowed down due to working on clearing out the art music room.  I'm enjoying spending more time in there!  which I never thought I'd ever say!

I have no need to worry about the new Etsy free shipping promotional,  since our sales are holding up with about 24 sales per week.  I am thankful and happy about that!

Anyone out there have any thoughts, suggestions or ideas on how the new Etsy free promotional is working for you at the moment?  Has it helped bump up your sales?  Do you foresee any complications with returned items and refunds?

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 176 items, The Destiny of Things- 179 items, VintageToGoEasy - 179 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 157 items.

Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!

Here is the example of the Etsy buyer using the loteria party favor box as part of table centerpiece, she is replacing loteria card with the loteria party favor box with surprises inside the box!

Related Stories:  There are so many, I'll just list a few!




I also make loteria art cards for all kinds of uses, for example, garlands, nichos, ofrendas, alters, shrines, gift tags, card inserts and more!  These are my latest, it was so fun to mindlessly color them with different colors of glitter glue!  They were inspired by the wedding vows part, "For richer or poorer, In sickness and health, til death do us part."
All the Men in Your Life Village People wedding vow DIY garland centerpiece Day of the Dead loteria art cards, available here

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."----Maya Angelou

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Monday, October 9, 2017

Mickey Mouse Charm for Disneyland Birthday: The Destiny of Things, Story 484

Mickey Mouse Charm for Disneyland Birthday:  The Destiny of Things, Story 484

Such a fun birthday idea filled with memories!

1 Vintage sterling silver Mickey Mouse Face Ears bracelet charm mini necklace pendant Disney birthday gift, available here,  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Here is her Penny for your Thoughts email:

Hello Kennedy,

How fun that you are collecting these stories :). My charm collecting story is: My husband and I get each of our girls (we have three) a charm for a charm bracelet every year for their birthdays that is relevant to that year. We purchased a Mickey Mouse charm from you for our youngest daughter's 4th birthday as we will be taking her and her sisters to Disneyland for her birthday.

Good luck in your hoarder rehab!

I do the same thing with my niece!  I started with her first birthday!

It will arrive in a gum ball capsule for safe travel!
1 Vintage sterling silver Mickey Mouse Face Ears bracelet charm mini necklace pendant Disney birthday gift, available here,  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

I like how she titled her email, "Penny for your thoughts," which makes me happy and gives me a secret giggle because in my "thank you" note to each Etsy buyer I do write, "penny for your thoughts" when I ask for a story and along with it I add a bright shiny penny to the package.  It warms my heart every time someone mentions that!

Here is what I wrote back:

Hi!

Thank you so much for your inspiring story! I love how you give them charms that are relevant for that year. I too, give my niece a charm every year for either her birthday or Christmas gift and your story has given me the idea to make it more relevant for both us each year!

Thank you for the well wishes with my Hoarder Rehab, I'll use your story on my blog and leave you anonymous. I look forward to see what insight it will bring me!

Thanks again for helping me with my Hoarder Rehab and I hope you and your family make some best ever memories on her birthday at Disneyland!

Kennedy

It will arrive in a gum ball capsule for safe travel!
1 Vintage sterling silver Mickey Mouse Face Ears bracelet charm mini necklace pendant Disney birthday gift, available here,  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Now that I think about I do give my niece relevant charms.  For her first couple of years, I gave her year family passes to Disneyland and gave her my mom's Disneyland castle charm that my mom had bought when she worked there as a teenager.

Also the year I saw her in her school's "Nativity" Christmas program, I gave her a Nativity charm that year for Christmas, but lately I haven't.  Time to put on the thinking cap!

Last one!

1 Vintage sterling silver Mickey Mouse Face Ears bracelet charm mini necklace pendant Disney birthday gift, available here,  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Saying Goodbye:  Of course, as a recovering hoarder, as soon as she told me her story. I had wished I had saved these two charms for me and my niece!  Before, I think the pain would have been excruciating, but now as a recovering hoarder it just lasted a moment and then I moved on.

Sometimes whatever charm I give my niece I put one on mine too.  I have these pure silver smooth nugget twin charms and each one has a inspirational word on it, so when I give her one I put one on mine.  The last one said, "peace" which was her Christmas gift for "Peace on Earth."  And now I have peace on mine too!

I have a lot of these pure silver heart charms in different twin styles too!  I don't know if I can save them until she gets married, but it would be a nice reminder if I had one for my charm bracelet too!
MINI Wedding bells Anniversary jewelry VTG 80s 90s pure 999 silver wedding heart charm puff pendant reversible puffy heart, available here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy


What I Learned:

1.  I think it's true a cluttered house can produce a cluttered mind.  As a five year recovering hoarder, I can observe my thoughts more closely now, instead of either impulsively acting on them or feeling long hours of distress from them.  I have learned to acknowledge them, let them pass and move on in shorter and shorter time intervals.

2.  Since I've been able to monitor my thoughts more closely, I can now release thoughts that no longer benefit me.  Long lived habitual thinking, mostly from my childhood that must have protected me some how back then.  For example I can release the feeling of being rushed to do everything with perfection all the time because now I know whatever I do now, it's good enough and I'm doing my best and have all the time I need.

When I was chronically ill and bed ridden and my husband did all the chores, I would feel so guilty and anxious that I could not help him because in my family, as a child, when my mom did chores, we all had to being chores.... or else!  Even yesterday, he was vacuuming and dusting and I was, I don't even remember what I was doing, but I felt so strange and started to feel stressed, so I asked him how he felt about me doing whatever it was while he cleaned and he said it didn't bother him one bit!

I was starstruck with his answer!  A light bulb of awe went off because that's not how my mom would have reacted!

3.  How has this shift in thinking helped my hoarding?  I'm not sure yet, but it definitely has helped my mental and physical well being!

What negative or not beneficial thoughts do not work for you anymore and need to be released?  I have been releasing many as they come to me and just watch them float away like clouds!

SALE 90s vintage NEW UNUSED Thank You Winnie the Pooh Friends Forever Book: Disney Troll Special Edition, available here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

Thank you Etsy buyer from VintageToGoEasy for your heartfelt story and reminder how remembering memories are just as fun as making new ones!

Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy!   I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.

Today I could throw out more stuff into the recycling bin, like all the clear plastic containers I covet and think that some day I'll reuse to store and organize more things.  I probably have or had over 20 Costco clear egg cartons saved and I put most of them in the recycling bin and set 2 aside for storage.  I use them for my shops to organize jewelry, figurines and other small items by listings and categories.

I also love to save clear plastic food containers and often use them to hold all the "future" projects I'm going to do one day!  I have a few large boxes with empty food clear food containers inside them and I'll clear those out tomorrow!  I'm moving forward in baby steps!  Yeah for me!
 
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!  And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!  I've been gleaning so much insight about my hoarding ways.

Have you been to the new Carnation Cafe on Main Street's Disneyland, since they've reopened it?  Here are some Russel Wright plates, like the ones that were used in the old Carnation Cafe, available here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy

I'm back to new listing daily at least on one or two shops! until I reach my goal of listing 180 at all the shops!  Things are selling well it seems!

Our sales are holding steady, we get about 24 sales per week.  It will be interesting to see how the sales hold up, since we decided not to participate in Etsy's new "free shipping" promotional due to complications of giving refunds and such.  

Anyone out there have any thoughts, suggestions or ideas on how the new Etsy free promotional is working for you at the moment?  Has it helped bump up your sales?  Do you foresee any complications with returned items and refunds?

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 173 items, The Destiny of Things- 177 items, VintageToGoEasy - 179 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 172 items.

Today I listed 2 new items on HoarderRehab and yesterday 2 new items on JunkDrawerAndMore.  Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home!

Some Etsy buyers have told me they use these to organize there jewelry and if you give out charms as gifts, they really are a cute and unique way to gift them!  or they are great if you are like me and need to monitor your candy intake!  Great for Halloween treats of all kinds!
In sets of 50 or 100, available here.  Photo via HoarderRehab

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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

True Vintage Monkey Ice Cream Toppers: The Destiny of Things, Story 483

True Vintage Monkey Ice Cream Toppers:  The Destiny of Things, Story 483

Bringing back new memories, while making new ones!  I love it!

Marked 1961 True Vintage cocktail monkey charm picks zoo carnival circus piks animal hanger figurines retro Halloween Day of the Dead party supply, available here
photo via VintageToGoEasy

This Etsy buyer not only sent me her story, but sent me several email of inspiration and motivation to keep me on my Hoarder Rehab adventure!

Here is her story about the monkeys!

By the way, I thank you for your shipment of plastic monkeys that were common during my childhood. I intend to put them on ice cream cones for my father's 74th birthday next month as a tribute to special times he provided our family when I was a child. 


Even though we struggled for money, my dad would take us to a special ice cream shop once a month and we would get amazing ice cream cones that had little plastic monkeys on top. He would always let me have his monkey along with my own. It was one of my favorite things to do as a child and I always kept my collection of monkeys lined up on my dresser. Somewhere along the way I lost my collection but I've always remembered the monkeys fondly. My dad suffered his second major heart attack a while ago and had a quadruple bypass. He should not have survived but clearly the Lord had other plans for him. Every day we have with him is a gift! 




So I thank you for providing me with something special that our family can enjoy as we remember how blessed we have been and still are to have my father still with us! 








Imagine how cute these will be on top of ice cream cones!



Marked 1961 True Vintage cocktail monkey charm picks zoo carnival circus piks animal hanger figurines retro Halloween Day of the Dead party supply, available here



photo via VintageToGoEasy








Such a heartfelt story!  I can relate, my Dad loved this kind of stuff too!  Here's what I wrote back: (BIG apologies for the format and spacing, but every time I try to change it, it just gets worse, so please excuse my technical difficulties.)








Hi Nicole!  Wow, I love your heartfelt story and can totally relate to it!  I hope your father is still doing great and so happy he can enjoy another birthday with you and your family and that you have such good memories at the ice cream shop with the little monkeys!  I bet he's going to be so surprised when he sees your birthday ice cream surprise!










Again, thank you for all your encouraging and kind words.  I feel as if I've met a kindred spirit!








Your emails make me smile,  thanks again,



Kennedy







She also sent me some other emails and they came at just right time because I still haven't slept due to so many bathroom trips at night and I have had or have a weird head cold with gunky eyes and off and on ear aches and headaches and have not felt like doing anything!  But her emails got me going again, little by little even though I'm still struggling with my health and I am so thankful for her kindness in time and emails, inspiration and motivation!







Here is one of the email that got me going again!








Hi Kennedy, it's Nicole in Utah! Thank you so much for the shipment of plastic monkeys and for your kind note and surprise gift inside. Thank you for sharing your unique struggles. 






I am very happy for you that you are working so hard to overcome your hoarding! It took great courage to even begin the journey you are on, so I salute and honor you for that! Know you're going to struggle at times and want to allow yourself to feel defeated. I beg you to face that with the same courage and determination that you showed at the very moment you accepted you have a problem and chose to overcome it! I KNOW you can do it! 




We all make mistakes and bad choices, and we all have our challenges and disabilities; it just that they take different forms and affect us in different ways. And those challenges others face at times seem nonexistent or "easier" for those others to overcome. 




That is not the case I have learned in my 48 years on this earth. Don't feel alone in your quest. And please never feel as if you're damaged. You're only human, Kennedy, and you are beautiful, unique, special and loved! 



Sending nothing but positive energy and support out into the universe, hoping you receive it someday and know that you shall overcome! 



Sincerely,
Nicole 

P.S. When your package arrived today and I saw the return name and address I thought to myself that your name, Kennedy Miranda, is perhaps the COOLEST name I have ever heard! You have a fantastic name! And surely you have an even more fantastic spirit! Stay cool my friend :)




Sigh, what a beautiful email!  and what timing!  I will not let my health defeat me and I will allow my body to heal itself by helping it with plenty of rest, healthy foods and beverages!  And I will keep learning about myself and read books that will help me overcome!














Each tail reads 1961 Zoo piks Pat Pend



Marked 1961 True Vintage cocktail monkey charm picks zoo carnival circus piks animal hanger figurines retro Halloween Day of the Dead party supply, available here



photo via VintageToGoEasy









Saying Goodbye:  I think I'll be happy, when all my hoard sells out!  And they have been, we won't be restocking a lot of items anymore and I've gotten to the point where I have found other healthier ways to deal with my stress and anxiety, however I'll see what happens during the winter holidays when they are at their worst!







What I Learned:







1.  As a recovering hoarder, hoarding had become an ingrained easy non thinking habit I've created since high school to cope with stress, anxiety and fear.  It was a way for me to get some relief from all my troubles.  My troubles did not go away, but hoarding was such a relief for a few hours, it was like releasing all the air out of a balloon that was going to pop into a 100 pieces, so it could fill right back up, instead of exploding.







2.  It's taken a long time, over 5 years for me to learn many other ways to release negative energies and stop hoarding.  I still have a long way to go, but my progress has been positive most of the time.  I am now able to throw away paper, especially scrap paper and paper that I could use the back of and as long as I have a recycling bin I can put most everything I used to save, like anything glass or plastic, like reusable containers as jars and bottles.







3.  I used a lot of Immersion therapy to overcome my hoarding.  The pain and anxiety of letting go of certain items and in the beginning almost all of my hoard was overwhelming and sometimes I felt paralyzed about it.  Etsy was very helpful with that since letting go of items wasn't like purging, but more like one item at a time and I had time to think and process my feelings and attachment to each item.  Thank you Etsy!








4.  I've done a lot of reading, none of them really about hoarding, but other self help type books through the years, right now I'm reading Codependent No More by Melody Beattie and I am learning so much about myself, my feelings or lack of being able to label them and my habitual non thinking behaviors and how to change them.








I'm also just started reading Power vs Force by David R Hawkins, which so far, I find very interesting about how my feelings and consciousness can create a type of numerical vibe and how these vibes affect the world.  He's much more scientific with his explanations than me, lol, but that's what I've gotten out of it so far.








What interesting books are you reading today?












The true vintage marked 1961 monkeys come in the traditional gray, red and orange only. Now we have many different colors of monkeys, but they are vintage retro style new!



4 to 12 party animals monkeys retro vtg style cocktail drink cake toppers, available here



photo via VintageToGoEasy







Thank you Etsy buyer from VintageToGoEasy for bringing back good memories while making new ones!  Most of all, thank you for your emails that helped me take baby steps to get back on track with my goals and dreams!







I hope you, your dad and family have the best birthday ever and you can line the monkeys back on your dresser again as a reminder of your dad's good health and birthday!









Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy!   I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me and how to find healthier ways to cope with fear.



 



Speaking about my dehoarding ways, in my last post I could not decide if I needed a break of not, from dehoarding and decided to keep on dehoarding at this time try and throw away some stuff and donate other stuff to quicken the pace!  I am so proud of myself!  More on that soon!  Update:  I'm having a difficult time throwing away stuff, but much better using our recycling bin!  Baby step progress! Yeah!



 



Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!  And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!  I've been gleaning so much insight about my hoarding ways.











Monkeys in brighter colors!12 or 20 Monkey vintage retro style cocktail drink cake toppers markers   carnival circus zoo cupcake toppers, available here





photo via VintageToGoEasy










I'm back to new listing daily at least on one or two shops! until I reach my goal of listing 180 at all the shops!  Lots of items sold during our sale and continue to do so after our sale.








Our sales were still fluctuating up and down, and then hit a low, but now we are back to 24 sales per week and growing.  Etsy's Labor Day sale was a success for us and I am thankful I was able to let so much hoard go!








Anyone thinking about joining the Etsy free shipping promotion?  I was thinking about joining the "free shipping" promotion on Etsy, but I read some of the comments in the forum and decided not to participate.  








Issuing refunds with free shipping can get complicated, in the sense that since there is really no such thing as free shipping because it's just added into the cost of the item, then issuing a refund might turn into a loss of profits because one would be refunding shipping too.  








Also, the way Etsy processes their fees means one would also have to bump up the free shipping fees into the item fee and that just sounds like a lot of extra work and thinking to me!  Personally I think the time, gas and money that goes into packaging, shipping and going back and forth to the post office needs more consideration and compensation!








We will see how not joining Etsy's free shipping promotion will affect our sales.








Anyone out there have any suggestion or ideas on how to use the new Etsy format and new Etsy Studio to their shop's best advantage?  and if it has helped bump up your sales?  How did your Labor Day sale go?  and will you be joining Etsy's free shipping promotional?








Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 175 items, The Destiny of Things- 175 items, VintageToGoEasy - 178 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 169 items.








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












We have monkeys and mermaids for those having mermaid pirate parties.  We have them in true colors and we have mermaids in bright colors too.  Mermaids in the above photo, available here.  Photo via VintageToGoEasy







Related Stories:  I just love it when old memories make new ones!
























Perhaps you'd like a sampler of all our drink or cake toppers!



24 Assorted animal and mermaid drink or cake topper toy mix, available here



photo via JunkDrawerAndMore









Again, BIG apologies for the format and spacing, but every time I try to change it, it just gets worse, so please excuse me.









"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."







I love this quote so much because it relates to all the kind Etsy buyers I've met, I've used it in my art, here, here and here!







Thank you readers from all over the world who continue to support my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things by taking part with your visits! 




























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