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?!

Would it be possible to sacrifice a family member?

The gods would appreciate that I reckon

It could be woo. Or it could be that your subconscious has picked up on something about them or the wardrobe and linked it with something you've seen in the past that was traumatic or disturbing.
It's like that gut feeling we get, it's our subconscious mind seeing/smelling/hearing something that we dont consciously identify, and linking it with a memory, sometimes good, sometimes bad. It causes a hormonal response, which you then feel as a gut reaction or bad feeling.

Have you cleaned it? I'd guess smell is the trigger so I'd give it a good scrub with something that smells nice and maybe spray some perfume in there.

Use a ouija board to communicate with it

@Alann01

Would it be possible to sacrifice a family member?

The gods would appreciate that I reckon

🥰

Of course it can! Absolutely everything is energy. Everything vibrates at a frequency. If the wardrobe has been in a house where something negative has occurred (or even people talk negatively) then it will absorb that energy.

It's the reason so many feel rubbish at the moment because they are vibrating at a low frequency with all the covid crap going on.

Try the sage suggestions and give it a really good scrub. I'd do it a few times.

Let us know how you get on.

Looks like 1980s mass produced - probably got the ghost of Thatcher in it.

ok gather round for the story of the bad bed
when I was a kid I heard my parents having a hushed conversation about a bed, they were quite...embarassed. I asked and they told me:

when they wre younger they stayed one night in a really uncomfortable old brass bed in a temporary flat, or a friends aunts house or whatever. they both had nightmares that night, nothing unusual if you're uncomfy
but
you guessed it
when they compared notes
..
they had had exactly the same nightmare.
it was about an old lady sitting at the end of the bed, giving off evil vibes.
what made it so weird is that they were so embarrassed about it which made it seem genuine/not alcohol induced or anything.

and there be the tale of the bad bed
as you were.

Also, the energy concept isn't woo, it's a proven scientific fact.

Re the neighbour who mentioned someone had died in the house. This reminds me of when our new cleaner started at our workplace. My colleague cheerfully told her all about our workplace ghost and then things that had happened... then we both left for the evening while she had stay and clean the building alone! She wasn't someone who particularly believed in ghosts but said she was jumpy for a week after each evening she had to work.

It's a perfectly good piece of furniture. But it does appear to be blocking a lot of light in that photo.

My suggestion would be start getting things ready today, so there's nothing to get in your way tomorrow, sleep in the other room tonight, and then move things around.

For example, in my bedroom, I would want to put that in the far right corner from my door where it wouldn't obscure the light coming in from one of the windows. I'd then have the cot beside it to make it a cosy but quieter area to sleep in and the dressing table where natural daylight would fall directly on my face, so on the left hand side facing me as I look in the doorway. My bed would be against the near wall where I get the benefit of daylight from both windows.

I'd also give it a damn good clean, vacuum all the corners, give it a quick wipe over with beeswax polish (more for the scent than anything else), do the same for the dressing table, bed if it's a wooden framed one and any chest of drawers/bedside cabinet. And obviously, vacuum the floor, mattress and wipe over the windowsill(s) and the inside of the windows, leaving them as far open as possible considering the weather (snowy air is delicious!).

I'd then remake the bed and cot with lovely fresh (and light) linen, puff my pillows up, bung some Tulips in a vase on the windowsill/dressing table and get my clothes all hung up before thinking how lovely it all looked.

Do you think the wardrobe has seen things no-one especially a wardrobe should see?

Is it too big for the room and it makes you feel closed in? Unless it's doors start opening and closing at the stroke of midnight and some giggling invisible being runs in and out of it I think maybe your imagination is going into overdrive.

it maybe subtle smell? chemicals used in cleaning it or the wood itself or polish or finish used?

@Alann01 looks sideways at dh having spent months in lockdown "can I offer ..."

but perhaps the previous owners were ill / had recently died hence it going to the clearance blokes.

Hopefully not in the wardrobe as that would explain the bad vibes.

Also, the item can have bad vibes if someone didn't want to part with it.

Sapient pearwood. Definitely haunted by a small ghost child.

@crowsfeet57

If you're worried get a smudge stick and smudge the room. That gets rid of bad energy.

It does sound bonkers, but I can totally imagine being in your position. Once your mind decides something, in this case that the wardrobe has bad energy, it’s really hard to shake it and can be self fulfilling. Not sure all the sage stuff would convince me. I’d probably consider whether I could say goodbye to the money I spent on it and just get rid of it.

For future purchases, you will probably have a local 'antique' shop or clearance place, and you can ring requesting specific items which they will then keep an eye out for you.
it's how I get my furniture, and it's much better quality and cheaper than buying new.

The sage bundle is estimated to arrive on the 13th so a week to go.

In the mean time I'm going to ask DP to shift it to the other side of the room for me as currently it is blocking some of the light coming in. I don't have any essential oils but I'll give it a good scrub and wipe down with zoflora on the off chance that there are any minging chemicals on the wood.

I think a dangly plant will look nice on top of it and make it look less boring too.

I inherited some jewellery from a relative who had been very unhappy in later years. I could barely hold the envelope it was given to me in and ended up selling it and getting a lovely bit of original art work with the process. Its a much nicer memorial!

I understand the feeling you describe i do think objects absorb energy and yes I am bonkers.

@truthisalie

OP, seriously. Get rid off it. Who knows what happened in that wardrobe.

All sorts of polyester monstrosities could have hung in there at one stage

Energy in this sense is in no way "scientifically proven" so forget that for a start. Get rid of you want but don't pretend it's rational, cos it ain't. You didn't like the sellers, your imagination went into overdrive, your child picked it up. Simple. Oh, and sitting here in a house pretty much entirely furnished second hand. Cheap, cheerful and individual.

I don't believe in woo really either but I do understand this. I bought an antique mirror once and the energy changed in the whole flat. I remember getting this awful feeling of apprehension putting my key in the lock and always felt like something was watching me. The way I looked at it, yes it was expensive, but whether it was woo or not, something about it unsettled me and that was enough for me to get rid of it in the end. Flat instantly felt back to normal after.

Maybe try whatever helps you feel more settled and worst case, sell it on and buy something else.

Years ago I bought a carved wooden box. Can’t describe it any more than it was sort of ornate iyswim.

I took it home and I spoke to two friends during the holiday and wrote down both their addresses and put them in that box. That was all that was in there.

Those two people died within a week of each other.

I know on a rational level that of course the box didn’t have anything to do with their deaths. But I just never felt the same about it after that and I got rid.