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

[ItbarelysnowsinLondon]

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

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?!

@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.

But correlation does not imply causation. In other words you can’t legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them. Just like a wardrobe being present at the same time as getting nightmares is a coincidence rather than causation (in any other way than psychological).

Another correlation-causation is, one day a friend invited me to rummage, without looking, in a bag of mixed gemstones. She said whichever one I picked meant something about my life, the future, or whatever. So I rummaged around and picked one out. “Oh, that means…” she said, truly believing that some woooo power had influenced my choice. But it was BS and wouldn’t have stood up to scientific scrutiny as an experiment because all the gemstones were different sizes and shapes, and I chose the one that felt the nicest shape in my hand (an oval one rather than a spiky edged square one), not because of its energy/properties. But she was convinced that this particular stone had spoken to me 😳

@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.

Happened to us, too, and you could see stuff in that mirror that wasn't there. I threw it in a skip.

@WhiteBricks your dad was a priest? Or vicar?

@DynamoKev just download a feng shui bagua from the internet, stand at your front door and work out where your Wealth corner is. You may have a toilet there, in which case it's tough luck!

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

Well the V&A - indeed, all museums - are full of old objects and artefacts that belonged to deceased persons; some of whom will have been bad in some way. So if inanimate objects are, or can be, possessed/full of bad energy/evil vibes as frequently as this thread would suggest, then surely they already have way of dealing with this? Otherwise museums would be grim, gloomy, foreboding, possibly dangerous places to visit.

Perhaps they have devices that detect emanating bad energy (woo Geiger counters, if you will) sage spray always at the ready, local priests and leading feng shuiists on speed dial... being a curator must be a very perilous profession.

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

Apart from the stuffed pheasant in the middle of the lawn.

This is the thread that keeps on giving. Stuffed pheasant was my last meal before lockdown, funnily enough.

Must re-read Cold Comfort Farm.

the bleeding fridge

Love this thread too. Place marking for the upcycled wardrobe

Is it a really old wardrobe? I'd get shot

To be honest just the thought of your wardrobe is giving me the willies now. I’d have to get rid. Imagine it standing in the corner of your room in the dark, staring at you.... (sorry I’ve probably not helped)

I probably shouldn't have come back here tonight whilst I'm laid in the dark facing it

Its not old old nah, 1980s pine (thanks to those who pointed this out)

What I meant by old was that it has clearly been about a bit, it has a fair amount of wear and tear.

It'll be as good as new, to me, after I've upcycled it I'm sure.

I'd take it in the garden and burn it. It's obviously infested with demons.

The Japanese are very reluctant to buy furniture that belonged to dead people. They seem to think it's not right or something.

There again I may be wrong.

This thread has made the best bedtime reading. I am lay here side eying my own wardrobe now though...

looking forwards to seeing the upcycled pic op!

Can’t believe you paid £100 for that, £25 max! And I’m so cringing for the old man saying “cuz”

My Nan was obsessed with the history of red indians, she bought a totem pole and 2 weeks later our house flooded, 2 feet of water. She burned it at the end of the garden.

Try cleaning and smudging it and if that doesn’t work sell it. It is not worth keeping something that does not make you happy.

@RabbityMcRabbit are they not the same?

@CodenameVillanelle

Your brain is causing the bad dreams which might be related to weird vibes your brain picked up from the sellers. The wardrobe itself contains no energy or capacity to influence your dreams outside of the meaning your subconscious attaches to the wardrobe. So I guess the answer is both yes and no!

This is clearly it OP but everyone who says similar you are ignoring their posts in favour or smudging or feng shui obviously not a totally non woo person.

@wishes1111

My Nan was obsessed with the history of red indians, she bought a totem pole and 2 weeks later our house flooded, 2 feet of water. She burned it at the end of the garden.

I don’t understand... did the totem pole fall over and burst a pipe? If not, why was it blamed for flooding the house?

@cheezy no they're not. A priest is Roman Catholic and doesn't marry or have children whereas a vicar is Church of England and is free to marry and have children, so quite a big difference.

I know what you mean OP, ever since I bought a second-hand coffee table from a Charity Shop I have been dogged by bad luck.

Eight years ago, just after I bought it, I sprained my wrist when I slipped getting off a bus, then five years ago I lost my scarf in a wine bar and then to cap it all two months ago my hat blew off and disappeared over a hedge.

As a consequence I threw the coffee-table into the garden, well I don't have a garden so I put it a neighbours garden along with some other things I no longer wanted and blow me if I haven't had a visit from a policeman!

The Church of England has Priests