Page 10 | I bought a pre owned wardrobe now the place has bad energy..

ItbarelysnowsinLondon · 2021-02-07T09:07:39+00:00

I want to start this post by saying I'm not generally a 'woo' person. I'm not talking about ghosts or implying that the furniture is haunted but I ^am^ wondering about bad energy. I've NC because I expect to be torn a new one [grin] Just over 2 weeks ago I bought a pre owned wardrobe on the Facebook market place. It's quite old. Probably irrelevant but the people who delivered it were quite strange folk, the sort you get an uneasy feeling from. It was a very awkward handover. Well ever since I got this wardrobe in the bedroom I've been plagued with disturbing nightmares every.single.night without fail. My toddler DD who also sleeps in my room has been saying she is "scared" in the night now, she has never done that before. She doesn't know about my nightmares and has no reason to be so unsettled all of a sudden. My mood has been quite low for the same amount of time with no particular cause identifiable, I'm finding myself feeling uncharacteristically short tempered and down. AIBU to think all of the above may be linked to the wardrobe/bad energy. Bonkers or possible?!

ToffeePennie · 08/02/2021 12:35

Seriously I’m so not woo at all. It’s all bullshit.
However the vibes off the couple could be causing your feelings and disturbed sleep, which is in turn impacting your DD. I would have to salt around the wardrobe and burn some sage with Lavendar (it has calming properties) and get some cherry wood to pop inside to “cleanse” your clothes. Cherry wood is a symbol of new starts and hope - so that should help you feel better with your clothes.
Also try talking to the wardrobe - like in beauty and the beast. Give it a warm, friendly personality, giggle and chat to it. You will find your brain starts to associate good stuff with the wardrobe which will calm your brain down, reassure it and you and your daughter will get more sleep.
Oooh - also monster spray the crap out of it - I make some from cherry and lavender water and just put it in a spray bottle and spray around the bedrooms when my kids are saying there’s a monster. It might help your daughter. X

pistachioglace · 08/02/2021 12:35

@GarlicZoflora

You don’t expect the OP to come back do you? Not after another night with that unsmudged wardrobe.

She's probably hiding under the duvet because she is being watched.

NoseinBook3 · 08/02/2021 13:24

How did you sleep last night OP

MaelyssQ · 08/02/2021 13:51

She's had it for sure. They will always wonder where she went and eventually clear the house. The wardrobe will be passed on. The new owner will start to feel uneasy but not know why. If they looked closely at the patterns in the wood they would notice that one of the swirls and knots resembles a woman screaming

I've seen that film!!!

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ItbarelysnowsinLondon · 08/02/2021 14:07

Afternoon all

Well I'm glad to report for the first night since getting the wardrobes I didn't have any nightmares (at least not that I can recall)

I'm still going to sage and upcycle though.

OP posts:

Original poster

ItbarelysnowsinLondon · 08/02/2021 14:07

Wardrobe, not wardrobes.

I couldn't be doing with two of the things!

OP posts:

lazylinguist · 08/02/2021 14:08

Bonkers . There's no such thing as 'bad energy'.

My (leading) feng shui consultant advised me not to get secondhand furniture because it absorbed energy from previous owners. Get rid.

Wow, not just a feng shui consultant, but a leading one!

paperchased · 08/02/2021 14:30

@Moneyfornothingkerbsforfree

I’ll tell you what, when I moved into my house my stupid neighbours came round straight away and told me the previous owner had died here. They may aswell have brought chalk and outlined his body! Idiots. Anyhow, it unsettled me and I was creeped out for weeks. Told my Mum who is realty woo, hippy type. So she goes, I’ll come round and cleanse it when your out. I laughed, but honestly, it’s never felt weird since that day! Think she used that burning sage stuff 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I had similar, new house always had a sad feeling about it, confirmed when neighbour told me that one of the previous owner's sons had died at war, then the mum died and then the dad started drinking and fell down the stairs and died, all in the space of a few months. Next two owners got divorced. I wish they hadn't told me! Asked another neighbour and they said it was ok, at least it wasn't one of the houses at the other end of the street, as there were 3 murders back in the 80s!

House definitely had a sad feeling, so I used sage to space clear it. It helped.

DejaVoodoo · 08/02/2021 14:38

That's good news, OP.

Do you think maybe 'talking' about it on here may have helped to reset your feelings about the wardrobe? Getting something out in the open is good for diffusing unpleasant feelings.

Anyway don't forget the upcycle photo when it's done!

HollowTalk · 08/02/2021 14:45

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

Light a fuck ton of sage on a big metal plate put it inside and shut the doors for several hours, then clean and polish it inside and out. Hanf a necklace of blackthorn and dried rowan berries on the rail inside. That should do it.

This is just like Cold Comfort Farm.

StormBaby · 08/02/2021 14:57

We bought a huge antique mirror at a Bootfair a few years ago and had stuff moving on it’s own in the house for weeks afterwards, then it all settled down.

DejaVoodoo · 08/02/2021 15:08

@StormBaby

We bought a huge antique mirror at a Bootfair a few years ago and had stuff moving on it’s own in the house for weeks afterwards, then it all settled down.

I'm never sure when people are joking or not on MN 🙄

CandidaAlbicans2 · 08/02/2021 15:16

You don’t expect the OP to come back do you? Not after another night with that unsmudged wardrobe

😂 “Unsmudged wardrobe”. She was taking a huge risk being in the same house as UW so was very surprised to see her back. Unless, of course it's [gulp]...Not. Really. OP. Posting! 😳😱

She's had it for sure. They will always wonder where she went and eventually clear the house. The wardrobe will be passed on. The new owner will start to feel uneasy but not know why. If they looked closely at the patterns in the wood they would notice that one of the swirls and knots resembles a woman screaming.

Hammer House of Horror writers eat your hearts out...or have them eaten out by the spirits of the unsmudged, haunted 1980s furniture obviously 🤪

CandidaAlbicans2 · 08/02/2021 15:20

I'm never sure when people are joking or not on MN

Nor me. Some of what I read I think, "they must be taking the piss, that's a parody", but then it seems they're serious! 😳 Oh well, millions of people believe in god so believing in wooey furniture isn't really a lot different I suppose. Both are belief systems with no actual scientific evidence to prove.

Frauhubert · 08/02/2021 15:28

Many years ago, my dad brought a stuffed pheasant home. Apparently, so my mum says, strange things started happening and she just felt bad karma (🤷🏽‍♀️). They got into financial trouble, started getting ill etc. Then some family member told her it’s the stuffed animal and to get rid of it. She threw it out of the window, and things got back to normal.

DejaVoodoo · 08/02/2021 15:32

Who'da thought a stuffed pheasant could cause financial trouble? You live and learn.

DynamoKev · 08/02/2021 15:35

@Frauhubert

Many years ago, my dad brought a stuffed pheasant home. Apparently, so my mum says, strange things started happening and she just felt bad karma (🤷🏽‍♀️). They got into financial trouble, started getting ill etc. Then some family member told her it’s the stuffed animal and to get rid of it. She threw it out of the window, and things got back to normal.

Yeah - that was obviously 100% totally the cause of the things going wrong

DynamoKev · 08/02/2021 15:37

Since these bad things are so easy to fucking solve - can all the woo people and the (Leading) Feng Bollocks consultants tell me what fucking furniture I need to make me rich and contented? I mean it can't all work in one direction, surely?

CleverCatty · 08/02/2021 15:56

My mum years ago was given a carved wooden object (I forget exactly what it was) - I think it was covered in fairies, imps that sort of thing.

Anyway, she had it a couple of weeks and she just felt it was evil and not bringing good energy - my mum has always been slightly woo but never seen a ghost etc.

She sent this object off to the V&A as she didn't want to throw it away but neither did she want to gift it to anyone and curse them too!

CleverCatty · 08/02/2021 15:59

@DynamoKev

Since these bad things are so easy to fucking solve - can all the woo people and the (Leading) Feng Bollocks consultants tell me what fucking furniture I need to make me rich and contented? I mean it can't all work in one direction, surely?

I think a red front door is supposed to be lucky.

It's all about the direction things face in too, like in your bedroom you shouldn't have certain things near where you sleep etc - as it interferes with the flow of energy.

Sometimes if I can be bothered I adopt some of the feng shui stuff but most is common sense, I don't want to sleep directly facing a mirror or be able to see it, especially a big one, probably irrational fear of seeing the devil in the mirror or something. I'm certainly not rearranging my small home to suit feng shui so I get rich. I do look after my money tree though...

DynamoKev · 08/02/2021 15:59

@CleverCatty

My mum years ago was given a carved wooden object (I forget exactly what it was) - I think it was covered in fairies, imps that sort of thing.

Anyway, she had it a couple of weeks and she just felt it was evil and not bringing good energy - my mum has always been slightly woo but never seen a ghost etc.

She sent this object off to the V&A as she didn't want to throw it away but neither did she want to gift it to anyone and curse them too!

So she sent it to bugger up the V&A?

CleverCatty · 08/02/2021 16:44

DynamoKev - basically yes!

I think she didn't want to burn it/dump it as it had some sort of artistic value and wanted it to be appreciated somehow. I think she also thought that the V&A would've had more knowledge about it, so they could have then chosen to have kept it/ditched it etc.

I wouldn't have bothered sending it there!

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 08/02/2021 17:05

@Frauhubert

Many years ago, my dad brought a stuffed pheasant home. Apparently, so my mum says, strange things started happening and she just felt bad karma (🤷🏽‍♀️). They got into financial trouble, started getting ill etc. Then some family member told her it’s the stuffed animal and to get rid of it. She threw it out of the window, and things got back to normal.

FIL and his sister think like that. They believe that their father's illness was due to a wooden elephant in the house, as he started getting better after two years once it was disposed of.

DP has an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease with symptoms identical to his grandfather's undiagnosed and attributed to magic illness. Because he inherited it from him.

We aren't that far past burning old women because the crops failed, really.

QuestionableMouse · 08/02/2021 17:38

My fridge was bleeding last night. Went out into the kitchen and there was a pool of blood under the door.

From the meat I'd put in to defrost that had fallen over and leaked all over the place. Did give me a fright though 😁😂😂

Porcupineintherough · 08/02/2021 17:42

Years ago dh bought a stuffed pheasant. We ate it for Christmas and 6 years later my aunt died. Spooky stuff.