Join in on the bath bomb craze!
BEFORE:
SALE 50 or 100 gumball machine plastic capsules empty carnival circus zoo taco fiesta pinata filler candy favor container birthday wedding mini party favor box, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab
Here is the first story from METIMEEssentials, here
I listed you as a production partner under my ring bath bombs because i
use your plastic balls to hold the rings inside of the bath bombs. I
hope this helps bring customer traffic your way. 😊
And here is what I wrote back:
Check out her ring bath bombs here! With a really cute assortment of rings! or Pokemon toy bathbombs here and Minion toy bath bombs, here or alien ones, here! So fun! Great for kids who need some inspiration to take a bath or anyone young at heart!
Need a smaller amount of these? SALE 10 or 20 or 30 empty gumball prize toy capsules carnival circus table confetti pinata filler vintage retro style, available here
photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
Here is another story and they sent me an updated photo too! Thank you! Check out her shop, SissyBathBodyCandles shop, here. One stop shopping for bath, body and candles! She has a monthly themed bath box subscription that has gotten rave reviews!
Arrived quickly. I’m using these to put surprises in for my bath bombs. Thank you!
Of course, I'm curiously wondering what kind of surprises are in her bath bombs!
AFTER:
I wonder what surprise is in there?
photo from JunkDrawerAndMore via SissyBathBodyCandle
Here is the third story:
Absolutely love these! perfect for filling my bath bombs will goodies!
Check out her shop, AshleysCreationUS and see what goodies you can find! Here are some of my favorite goodies from her shop that I'd want to try, Blueberry cobbler bath bomb pie, here, Black tie bath bomb for the Mister, here and this one just for the laughs, Monkey Farts bath bomb here. Do you think it smells like bananas or tropical? And of course, the sunflower bath bomb with a ring inside, just to see if it's in a capsule, lol!
If you need all one color we can do that for you too! Here is our most popular one color capsules in black, available here. Or you all white or an equal mix of black and white. Someone just purchased a black and white mix for a soccer party.
photo via Hoarder Rehab
The last shop is no longer on Etsy anymore, but here is her story:
They are perfect and will make fun little surprise holders In our soon to come bath bombs... Thank you for being so fast and getting this shipped out quickly
I'm might be following her down that road soon! or am I just going through a phase, like my husband keeps telling me!
Well, that was fun! It was like taking a bath bomb shop tour in my pajamas at 3 am!
10 or 20 all pastel mix colors, available here
photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
Saying Goodbye: I don't know how much longer we'll be restocking these because long story short, these end up being a time consuming labor of love and I'm hoping to move on to other things that I'd prefer spending time with like exercising. Did I just say that? I'm not as fit as I used to be and I feel like I'm losing a lot of muscle that is turning into fat without gaining much weight. I think it's called, old age, lol.
Is anyone else out there feeling that too? What are you doing about it? I was really inspired by the 94 year old Grandma , Edith Traina, who could dead lift 150 pounds. She started to lift weights at 91 after one of her friends dragged here to the gym. You can read the rest of her story here or google her. Anyone out there want to drag each other out to a gym?
Pink is another popular color, then yellow and then red, available here
photo via The Destiny of Things
What I Learned:
1. All things must pass and I think my Etsy time might be coming to an end or maybe I'm just in a slump. It happens. A lot.
It seems like most of my jobs and careers, as soon as I get to "what I think is the" peak, I'm ready to move on to something else. Only time will tell.
2. I've been doing a lot of detoxing, we usually use Dr. Schultz's 30 day detoxes, one each season and we do intermittent fasting when we aren't using his detoxes and I've noticed that it seems I'm experiencing a healing crisis from my childhood and other old injuries, so maybe that's why I'm not as keen on Etsy anymore.
3. I still feel like donating all my hoard and moving on, but now my husband doesn't want to let it all go, lol. I've made a small pile to donate that is sitting by the door, which is how I decided to open an Etsy shop, but this time I can let the pile go, I just can't sit in a car long enough yet due to my sciatica. At least I know an hour of mediation will heal it, but sitting in a car like that makes me so restless and fidgety. I might have to try sitting full lotus in the car and see if that works.
4. I'm still getting up at 3 am to see if it helps my insomnia and for the most part it has, but I get so tired during certain times of the day and there isn't a pattern to it, so it just hits me and I'm either a brain dead zombie, grumpy or cranky impatient. I've been working on solutions like 10 minute power naps, 1 minute exercises, even meditation, sometimes they help, but most of the time they don't seem to make much of a difference. The good news is I get a lot more done and can spend more time experiencing other things.
Right now I'm brain dead tired. I usually start waking up at 8 pm and that's the time I try to settle down to get to sleep by 9 pm. I've tried to get up later like at 4 or 5 am, but I find I'll just go back to bed. Anyone out there find something that has worked for them?
Here are the 8 different colors we keep in stock, keep in mind some colors sell out quickly due to large orders of certain color requests. This last month is what the color yellow, which are back in stock. 8 different colors, available here. These are the 1 inch small capsules and we do not carry any of the larger ones due to cost. Right now we also have a light lavender purple.
photo via The Destiny of Things
buyer from HoarderRehab, TheDestinyofThings and JunkDrawerAndMore for taking the time to send me your stories and photo updates. It was so fun browsing and making wish lists of all your bath bombs and other shop items, like candles. I can only use bath and body products that are organic due to allergies, otherwise I'd be wanting to try all the favorites I picked out!
More than ever, I'm still feeling I need to let go of everything and start all over, just not sure how to accomplish that right now. Let's see if I can get the donation pile at the door to the donation center! Lately, I've been going through my clothes and it's so difficult to let go of my clothes because I think I'm going to wear them (if I ever have to go back to work again, knock on wood) or need them for a special occasion, but it's been about 10 years since I've retired and I have only worn a few. I think it would be much easier, if they didn't fit anymore!
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.
My experiment of changing all the jewelry to the general category of jewelry so I could use all the holidays seemed to work for Mother's day, but not so well for Father's day.
For example, under the jewelry category, if I use the more specific categories, like stacking rings, the only holidays to choose from that were upcoming were either Cinco de Mayo or Independence day. If I wanted to use Mother's day for a holiday, I had to use the most general category of just "jewelry."
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!
They look slightly washed out in this photo, I'd say the third listing photo is more of it's true color, but so hard to tell with everyone's computer monitors being different. Light lavender lilac light pastel purple color capsules, available here
photo via The Destiny of Things
It took a lot of time to change the holiday categories for each listing on all the shops and the jewelry categories back to general jewelry, so I hope to get back on my regular Etsy schedule. My goal is back to 170 items per shop! It looks like I have a lot of listing to catch up on!
Sales are up and down, but mostly up and then done right now it's down, but that's okay, it'll give me time to list new things so I can make my goal of 170 items per shop! Guess which shop, I'll be starting on!
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 162 items, The Destiny of Things- 161 items, VintageToGoEasy - 171 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 169 items.
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
Mexico themed colors of red, white and green for taco and other fiesta parties, available here. Photo via VintageToGoEasy
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"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."
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!
