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?!

Honestly it's bonkers
But I'd have the creeps to and would be listing it on gum tree or freecycling and getting it out of the house ASAP

It's you she's picking it up from. She will be able to tell something is upsetting you, no matter how much you think you're hiding it.

Just get rid of it if you don't want it. But it's only your mind causing this, nothing else.

Maybe it just doesn’t work in that space, a feng shui type thing? It’s an inanimate object, it’s not evil or haunted, that’s in your head.

What sort of weird were the sellers? (Not helpful but am curious).

I think probably you’re focusing other things on the wardrobe - but quite frankly if it’s causing you problems - get rid. Life’s too short to be fuckinf about with sage etc - and if you do tjst it’s going to focus your mind even more on it.

It doesn't look old. I remember everyone replacing the mahogany with them in the 90s.

Get rid

Not bonkers. It needs a really good clean with the window open. Get some incense and get it wafted all around inside and out of the wardrobe.

The people you bought it from didn't happen to say they were from Narnia, by any chance, If so that might explain it somewhat.

The wardrobe isn't going to be haunted or anything, because that's ridiculous, but you've probably got some sort of bad vibe from the sellers. Or maybe it's triggering a bad memory? Or it's probably just a coincidence.

That said, I'd probably want rid of it too, but I'm the kind of person that once I get this kind of idea in my head it becomes 'The Haunted Wardrobe' forever and I can't shift it.

Bad feng shui.. possible!

I'm not keen on the placement itself and have been thinking it would be better placed on the other side of the room.

With regards to the sellers who delivered it..

It's hard to describe them without sounding offensive. They were unusual. They own some sort of clearance business and a second hand furniture shop. One of the two looked like an ever so slightly younger, step toe - if any of you remember who that is? He was quite scruffy, early 60's but spoke strangely (which my DP commented on when they left) he was talking like teenager, IE "yea cuz, lets get this done then cuz, to you cuz" cuz being slang for cousin, a term the youth in London use alot but never old men

The other bloke with him was equally as strange but alot younger, very tall and gave me an uneasy feeling because he just stared.

I looked up their Facebook accounts via their business page afterwards out of curiosity and man #2 had some strange religious recent posts and subliminal digs about revenge on people who did him wrong.

Hard to explain without sounding like a judgemental arse but they were just really strange.

It's unlikely to really be the wardrobe but as the idea is fixed in your head now I'd get rid of it!

It doesn't look that old. Probably contains some chemical (formaldehyde?) which is affecting your sleep.

What a shame, it looks lovely! If it were me though, I'd get rid pronto. There's more to this universe than we can ever understand.

I think it’s the strange posts that have made you uneasy.
I mean - if you are in any way woo - the wardrobe probably has come from a house clearance - so could have any “story”.

Get rid - it’s troubling you for whatever reason,

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 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

The wardrobe is evil and is clearly an entrance to the underworld. Baba Yaga is preparing her demon monkeys and will arrive tonight to pillage your kitchen.

Immediately take a sledgehammer to it, and burn it's splintered remnants in your front garden.

I've ordered a stick of sage to smudge the place, I assume it's as simple as lighting the bundle and walking around the flat especially the bedroom/wardrobe?

I feel like a bit of a nutter truth be told but it's really quite peculiar! I've never been uneasy about a piece of furniture before

It would be a shame to get rid of it, it cost me £100 and i really need a wardrobe. I'll see how I get on after smudging it and if I'm still not keen I'll try to sell on and buy new.

@ItbarelysnowsinLondon

I've ordered a stick of sage to smudge the place, I assume it's as simple as lighting the bundle and walking around the flat especially the bedroom/wardrobe?

I feel like a bit of a nutter truth be told but it's really quite peculiar! I've never been uneasy about a piece of furniture before

It would be a shame to get rid of it, it cost me £100 and i really need a wardrobe. I'll see how I get on after smudging it and if I'm still not keen I'll try to sell on and buy new.

For Christ sake don't burn the place down!!

Lighting the bundle and then blowing out the flame, I should say

Gosh it’s not that old. Looks like a bog standard eighties pine wardrobe.

I was thinking it was going to be some sort of 19th century ornate thing.

@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 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

Oh god I would have been livid with your neighbours

That would freak out most people, woo or otherwise.

I'm glad you feel more comfortable there now.

@Bluntness100

Gosh it’s not that old. Looks like a bog standard eighties pine wardrobe.

I was thinking it was going to be some sort of 19th century ornate thing.

Oh no, not old as in ancient.

I should have specified.

What I meant by old was well used, been around a bit. It has an amount of wear and tear.

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.

Yeah I thought it was going to be a creepy looking antique, it’s just a standard modern secondhand wardrobe! If it’s creeping you out maybe paint it a nice jolly colour?

My first thought was sage it, so I’m glad to see you’ve had that advice and taken it!

Seriously, sage the fuck out of it, with the windows open. Make sure it gets surrounded in loads of smoke. Maybe do some clapping and get your dd to stomp around with a tambourine or something. Then you have to fill it and the room up with good energy again, so light some incense and have a sing song.

It will be fun.

It does sort of...loom a bit! Is the room quite small? Could just be making you claustrophobic.

If you can afford to risk buggering it up so you can't re-sell it, I'd try painting it to match or blend with the wall so it's a bit less 'in yer face'.

I think that sort of light oak/pine is quite ugly anyway, so I'm biased. If you like its looks & don't want to paint it, but it still creeps you out, I'd just sell it on & have done.