Gypsy Party Fortune Teller Fish Party Favors: The Destiny of Things, Story 541

Gypsy Party Fortune Teller Fish Party Favors:  The Destiny of Things, Story 541

What fun!  A gypsy party!

Add "gypsy" party to how to use of fortune teller fish for another themed party favor!  Available here from 10 to 100 count.  Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

Here are the two notes I received:

One with the order in note to buyer:

Thanks! These will be GREAT for my upcoming Gypsy Party! Happy Easter! Katherine

And one later in review:

This was a most WONDERFUL purchase from JunkDrawerandMore! The handwritten note that accompanied my order was truly unique and quite entertaining to read. Included were many little stickers and happy graphic arts items. The price was very affordable and the shipping speed was spot on! Thanks so much for this terrific buying experience! Highly recommend this shop!

I had never thought to use these for a gypsy party, but they would fit right in!  Off the top of my head, here are some other themed parties these have been used as party favors for:  fisherman, sushi, carnival, magic, circus, beach, pool, mermaid, pirate, nautical, bass fishing, retirement, weddings and birthdays!  These are very versatile fish!
 

Saying Goodbye:  I first used these as a teaching prop for my students when I was teaching because everyone loves a dancing fish!  It was how I introduced magic themed teaching to my class, which was really chemistry, math and other sciences.  I had a hoard of these leftover after I retired and soon found out they are our one of our best sellers!

Everything is easy and fun about these!  They have the instructions on how to use them, printed right on the fish and your love fortune is determined on how the fish moves in the palm of your hand and that's on the back of the handy dandy envelope it comes inside with such cool old fashioned graphics on the front of it.  Available here from 10 to 100 count.  Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

What I Learned:

1.  To be thankful for my hoard because I have learned that letting go of it has become so much fun!  And believe me, I didn't think that in the beginning, as a matter of fact, each hoarded item that left was painful and some even left me crying!  which was very cathartic!  I've not only purged many hoarded items one by one, but let go of painful memories and emotions that I had forgotten all about and later I could recover and heal from them, since they were brought forward to my attention.

2.  I've let go of thousands of hoarded items and now I can safely say that I've become less fearful to the emotions and memories that come with letting go and sometimes look forward to them because I never what I'm going to learn from each item, until it goes to it's new life and forever home!

3.  These fish aren't hoard anymore, they are what I call re-hoard because I don't feel the need to hoard these anymore and now we just list them as a labor of love.  A reminder to myself that so much of my hoard has been a success to selling on my online shops! 

4.  There are several best sellers items that are re-hoard that we won't be restocking anymore, like cocktail animal and mermaid toppers and Twilight Zone fortune teller cards.  It's time to move on or at least I'd like to move on, but my life partner, he still wants to continue listing my hoard!  Can you believe that?

Available here from 10 to 100 count.  Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

Thank you Katherine, Etsy shop owner of SMELLABRATION for sharing your fun gypsy story and adding to the list of how to use these through themes! Read her fun and funny profile here, it's interesting to see how her her business started and it's organic!  Visit her beautiful shop of one of a kind handmade organic scent-ual scents, eco friendly packaging that looks adorably wonderful and more, here. 

Visit some of my favorites, like this organic trio of oils, here! It looks like a little sample pack and she and her husband, William, explain how each ingredient will enhance your health.  If I were to splurge, I'd order this kit of 16 different dried flowers in vials, here.  And if I were on a budget I'd order the 10 organic set of dried cooking herbs, here.

Did I mention that everything is from her organic garden?  What a dream come true because I'd like to follow in their footsteps.  Well, not the organic online store part, but the organic growing flowers, veggies and herbs!  Last chance to check out their shop here and smellabrate all the beauty and talent!  They also will make you a custom scent or inhaler for stress relief or any other occasion!

Speaking of herbs and such, my latest favorite tea is a couple teaspoons of ground coriander seeds, ground cardamon, ginger and pepper seeds to taste with a heaping tablespoon of honey!  It sounds a little weird, but tastes great.  It's a spin off of Indian coffee, called Sukku.

These are the Twilight Zone fortune card slips we will no longer be stocking, we only have one complete set and some random mix ones left in stock here. 
Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

I had reached my goal of listing 180 items on each shop and made my new goal o list 200 items on each shop!  But sales picked up last week and a lot of hoard items sold, so I'm back to listing to 180 again, which I did this morning. 

Visit our spring cleaning sale of 20% off at all our shops at the moment.  There is only 36 hours until the sale ends at VintageToGoEasy.  They are kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen again, but I'm pretty sure all the sales are until sometime mid May or sooner.

Free shipping doesn't seem to be working for our shops.  I tried several experiments at each shop using mainly free shipping to see what happens and it seems our repeat sales do much better without free shipping.  I was going to change everything back to regular shipping, but this weekend, Etsy is promoting a free shipping deal, so we will try it and see if it helps sales.  NOT!!!!

The Etsy promo sale is for buyers and is random and are catering to shops that aren't using free shipping, which is weird since Etsy is so into "free" shipping.  From my understanding of what I read, if a buyer spends $25 at a shop that doesn't have free shipping and you are a randomly chosen buyer that spend $25 in shipping, Etsy will pay for your shipping, if you are randomly chosen.  Did anyone out there read it differently?

How to include the new Etsy shop fees, plus their commission for shipping now and USPS fees increased in Jan of 2019 too by zones, so 4 oz now costs $4.00 to ship to the east coast including tracking and insurance. Yowza!  And on top of all that sales have been down and cross marketing (faving/liking) has changed also, so I'm not sure if cross marketing is even helpful anymore.

For instance do shop hearts and number of followers, even matter anymore?  I never fully understood how all that worked anyway, but now I'm wondering if hearts on listings and shop hearts and followers even help a shop anymore.  Anyone out there can help in either departments?  I'm still confused about that!  Thank you in advance! 

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 180 items, The Destiny of Things- 181 items, VintageToGoEasy - 181 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 177 items.   

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

 Many Etsy buyers have used these for gypsy fortune teller themed parties and weddings,.  We have either a full set of 52, which is one of each kind or random sets in 6 or more.  These are originally from Madame X or Swami napkin disperners that were in road side cafes in the 50s and shown in Twilight Zone's episode Nick of Time with William Shatner, available here.

Photo via The Destiny of Things.

Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things!  Happy Friday!