As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

kidcat

7ww - I know what you mean, I found clearing my grandads place full of mixed emotions, there were the family memories of some of his crazy antics and family occassions but there was also the finality of giving away his things that he treasured. Sending hugs for tomorrow.

tessie_bear

hi....i can so relate to the vibes off old furniture....both good and bad...im not keen we buy all new due to me not wanting images fashing into my head when i open a cupboard or draw...jeeps i sound nutty

on the subject of houses we looked at loads and found nowt...didnt feel right...then we viewed a house that the couple had had 2 sons and the hubbie had got a big promotion so they were moving up...we purchased said house then over 9 years we had 2 sons and moved to our bigger dearer house off dh promotion...a young couple purchased it off us so it will be interesting to see if they have sone and move on up as it were....the house had a very positive energy...but always felt we were only visiting if that makes sense

thankyou to (i think) madatha who mentioned toms at costco...6kg for£3.99...i have made lots of sauce

tessa

silvasava

Havn't posted on here for so long I still had the old thread on my subscription! I'va almost caught up (I think)
7WW - Best wishes for tomorrow, I think it lovely that you have decided on somwhere that has happy memories.
Kitty, Redlady & Mardatha - dont think you are unusual at all, you just have highly developed sensitivities. TBH I think that comes thru in your posts too.
I must admit though I've got lots of second hand furniture - I've never had any 'vibes' from it but maybe because someone else loved it before me and I'm still looking after it? I found out after we bought our house that the original owners died in it (not together!) but we've been here over 30 years & been very happy bringing up a family. I must admit I do like things that have a history but I think perhaps I'm not very 'sensitive' (DH would second that lol)

bluebag

7 week wonder,

I lost my lovely dad just 18 months ago. I still miss him everyday. Kind wishes for you for tomorrow.

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Kimitatsu wrote: »

Kittie - if you have issues with electro smog you can use peace lillies to soak up the excess, spider plants are also excellent. They aborb the radiation and process it in the plant giving out oxygen instead. I also use chunks of rose quartz next to my tv, computer etc to do the same thing. You can cleanse them under a running tap every month or so and that will also help.
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Thanks for that kimitatsu. The house we live in feels as though it has been here for ever and is at one with the earth. There is no electric smog here and I do have a rose quartz tree and I also have an amethyst tree which is for spirituality etc and which I bought when I was a healer. More about stones on this site

http://www.gemstonegifts.com/stones/amethyst.htm

I obviously cannot put my house on here but it cost the earth nothing and is built to be incredibly energy efficient, probably the highest energy efficiency in the whole country. it is very calm and peaceful and loving and was like this from day 1. The internal walls are heat sinks and very dense so it stays cool in summer and warm in winter. The ground floor is stone on thermal mass for the same reason, The sun heats our house and the verandah shades it when the sun is high in summer. Our carpet upstairs is sisal and the walls are all lime plastered. Oh I have to stop but you can probably see that we love our house and its good energy. Before you ask, it didn`t cost an arm and a leg, we were just very lucky to find it or rather it found us and quite by accident

redlady, so exciting about the cottage, you can tell right away if it is meant to be

re angels: well I cannot count the number of times that my guardian angel has saved me

ceridwen

Good wishes from me as well for tomorrow 7 week wonder ((( )))

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Personally - I don't really get vibes about houses. I think the ones in my area - both at the price level I am in and the next price level up tend to be just pretty characterless houses by and large. I think this may be something specific to some areas - whereas others have lots of nice "would love to live there" type houses. In this area the "love to live ins" are SO expensive that they are out of reach of the vast majority of us (bearing in mind this is an area with a noticeable number of £1 million or more houses these days:eek:).

So I think pretty much all of us hereabouts just concentrate purely and simply on getting "the best value for money" we can when buying/moving-up/etc.

Probably as well in the circumstances - as many of us have such restricted choices as to what we can afford anyway here ...

Anyrate - my parents duly walked around my house whilst I was very pragmatically assessing whether it was the best I could get for my money and readily saleable to move on up later:cool: and my mother DOES "do vibes" on houses and she was smiling and giving me the thumbs-up - so I thought "Oh well - nothing awful has happened there anyway or she wouldnt be smiling like that" and I bought it. I would feel a bit "unnerved" if someone had actually died here - but, in the event, even though its a pretty old house no-one has. I HAVE noticed that much the same sort of people buy the house to one side of me every time it goes up for sale and also the one behind me. Perhaps it would have been as well to know my house's history before I bought it - because its owners tend to stay put for RATHER a long time in it and the independent single woman who owned it 3 "changes of ownership" back lived in it for literally decades until she died (in hospital as it was). If I had known how long the owners live in this house - then I think I would have thought again in case I ended up living in it for many years too (ie I would have known that my plans to sell it on and move up a level after a few years might have had/have had a few obstacles in the way....).

Hmmm...I think I've just convinced myself that I need to check out a house's "history" if I'm able to move on ever...:rotfl::rotfl:

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ceridwen, space clearing does work in a house and sometimes the stale energies need to be moved away. At the very simplest level, ringing a bell will do it as will burning sage. Google space clearing and you`ll see what to do. Also feng shui works and it can simply be a matter of moving a few things and/or colours to make the difference. I have lived in houses that have felt `not me` but it was needs must and you can do a lot through feng shui principles. It is a very interesting topic to study esp things like the poison arrows that can affect your home and how shrubs etc can be protective. I was just thinking about our dd who moved into her new house on an estate, 6 months ago and they are loving it. That house has a bank behind it, covered in shrubs and the house is tucked away behind a protective wall. There are no crossroads or poison arrows and the potential is there for it to be a very happy home

I have a friend who bought a house on a crossroads and now the house is tatty from the outside because her dh had an accident and hasn`t been able to work for many years. They have a daily struggle. Cars keep going towards them to go straight or turn right or left, they have a front garden and just one thin tree on the corner, it`s bad feng shui. I have to stop rambling but feng shui is so interesting

gemini12

Excuse me from butting in but our old house was bought in a rush for various reasons and my OH never liked it in fact we split up for 2 years whilst living there. I then decided to move and we got back together. We have since moved twice and now live in a 1970's house rather similar to the one OH hated. This one he loves and all who come here say it is a very calm and peaceful house. Our furniture is a mix of old, new and heirlooms. Nothing mathches but it suits us.

the_cake

Interesting chat, and I think I can contribute something which chimes in rather spookily with this thread's title!
I live in a very old, rural house, and was contacted last year by someone doing some research on a former inhabitant. He was born here in the late 18th century, and served with Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. Having survived that, he returned home, went back to his former life as a farm labourer, got married, and six months later was condemned to death for house breaking (burglary)! His sentence was commuted to transportation for life to New South Wales - without his wife. He applied some years later for her to be able to join him, but she had since died. He did remarry, and lived to the ripe old age of 94.
The report of his trial gives a description of him, and I do sometimes think of him, his wife, and the desperation which must have driven him to take such a risk. Did his newly married wife end up in the workhouse? When I have more time, I will do some research on this sad story of rural poverty.
ETA - despite the above, this is a very happy house - shabby, 'lived in' but definitely happy!!

mamaninie

THIRZAH wrote: »

I make bread by hand and use the Dove's Farm yeast too.I empty the packet into a jam jar and keep it in the fridge.

We are going on a bread making course tomorrow so will let you know if we pick up any useful hints.

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