me when astrology doesnt match my personality: this is liberal hippie trash and honestly, I am the one who decides what kind of person I am, not some con artist trying to make a quick buck
me when astrology matches my personality: this is honestly so scary, i can literally feel the planets aligning and I am one with the earth, moon and the stars *grabs handful of dirt for no reason*
Save 10% of each check and put it into your savings. Living paycheck to paycheck will never keep you ahead of the game.
If you’re undecided about a career, pickup a trade or work your way up the ladder at your job. Do not continue to work in the same position for more than 2-3 years.
Seek therapy for your issues instead of self medicating with casual sex or drugs, venting to your friends constantly, becoming antisocial or co-dependant on someone. It’s not healthy.
If you’re not receiving the same energy you put into a friendship or relationship, leave. You are not a doormat.
I went through all of my witchy supplies and shelves and have found a collection of neat things that no longer call to me the way they used to that I hope I can pass along to someone who will appreciate them more.
I am going to be doing this giveaway a little differently than I have seen others do. I do not need more followers than what I have now, so this is ONLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED ME BEFORE TODAY (7/17/2018). You all have stuck by me for an awfully long time and seen me grow personally as well as my practice and I love you forever for that.
Now for the rules!
1. You MUST have been following me before today (7/17/2018). Anyone who follows me after today will not be counted even if you do reblog this. The giveaway will END ON 8/18/2018 (ideally – see bottom). I will have announced the winner within THREE DAYS of the end date on 8/21/2018.
2. You MUST reblog this post but DO NOT tag as a giveaway. You all know the run down and I don’t want to get in trouble or want it blowing up in my face for doing a nice thing. If you do tag as a giveaway I will be forced to remove you and I don’t want to do that.
3. I reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone with problematic blog content. I do a great job usually of kicking people out as time goes on but I’m sure out of 1600+ I may have missed a couple. If there’s anything racist, anti-LGBTQ, pro-Trump or problematic in general that I see (or is reported to me with proof) I will not hesitate to disqualify and block you.
4. If you live outside the continental US (think Hawaii/UK/Brazil etc.) and win you must pay your own shipping and handling because I am not a rich woman and it tends to get very very pricey when sending items anywhere outside the country.
5. I am not responsible for the potential mishandling of this package by the USPS. I plan to pack everything as best I can to prevent leaking/breaking/etc. but I cannot plan on shitty carriers doing shitty things and I will NOT be able to replace anything that I send and for that I’m sorry!
6. I am NOT responsible for any kind of potential allergic reaction you may have to anything I have included, whether it’s the herbs, the perfume oils or essential oils. Please use your noggin and do your research and use wisely!
And finally, I am not counting this as a rule, but PLEASE cut this pregnant lady some slack. I live in a very HOT very MISERABLE very WILDFIRE PRONE part of California and if I am forced to evacuate with my 4 year old and husband and the other 3 members of our immediate family like I was last year, or have been hit with a very LOW SPOON week, I may have to extend the giveaway or cut it short by the time I have stated. I will do my best to get the package shipped within 2 weeks of the end date and if anything comes up will let you know as soon as I can.
Now for the fun part! THE GOODS.
From left to right we have 1 muslin bag filled with lemonbalm and 1 filled with holy basil, 1 driftwood candle holder, 1 brand new copy of The Witching Herbs by Harold Roth, 1 gently used copy of On the Edge of Dream: The Women of Celtic Myth and Legend by Jennifer Heath, 1 brand new hardback copy of Basic Witches by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman, 1 plastic egg I found hiking that contains a lucky penny, 1 dram bottles each of ginger and angelica root essential oils, 1 small bottle each of my very own homemade dandelion oil and rosemary tincture, 1 brass fairy pin/brooch, 1 nearly full roller bottle of Enchantress (lilac and gooseberries like Yen from the Witcher), 1 nearly full roller bottle of Traveling Vardo’s Sif perfume (sweet cream and almond), 1 dram of PMS ease oil from the Inked Goddess, a miscellany of perfume samples from Traveling Vardo, Sage Goddess and Wild Witchery, a miscellany of tumbled stones, 1 velvet lined box I think is silver but might be pewter designed with roses, 1 8in Italian silver 9.25 chain, 1 carnelian beaded stretch bracelet, 1 silver plated stretch bracelet with red swarovski crystals, 1 rose quartz pendant, 1 set of butterfly wing earrings, 1 ear cuff, 3 tealights (one plain and 2 winter berry) and a cool ass collectible/decorative offering plate.
I used this for all of my blue stones for a bit.
Looks to be violet agate, obsidian arrowhead, agate, carnelian, citrine, calcite and a couple others I can’t recall.
Dragons’ Keep is sort of a sweet cinnamon musk, Nomad is an herby earthy blend, Hexe is a very strong bitter herb blend, Witches Brew is a bright herb blend and Elder Council is some seriously dark herby business.
I hope the egg brings you luck too!
The butterfly wings were humanely collected here locally.
I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?
a pallet of ramen noodles
I hate ramen noodles tho
hmmmmm
bees?
Are you suggesting that I eat bees for a week
This is roughly what I make sure I have in my kitchen all the time along with rough estimates of local prices (MN). I buy a lot of things when they’re on sale and stockpile them.
instant oatmeal packets with fruit in them – $3 probably and this can be breakfast all week and maybe even a lunch or dinner too since you usually get 10 packets
bag of rice – $2-3 depending on size. 1 cup dry rice makes enough for about two meals depending on what you add in. if you get cheap rice, rinse it before cooking
canned beans – usually under $1 per can – mix the can with your rice and you have a meal. chili-spiced beans will make bean tacos. Rinse non-spiced beans before adding to anything.
Tortilla – usually around $3 but you get like 8-10 of them. Tacos, wraps, and quesadillas are all fair game here
lettuce – $2 max around here, either a head of something or bagged precut depending on preference, use as a salad or on tacos
protein other than beans of some sort – probably $5-7 for meat, $2-3 for eggs. sometimes I can get bags of frozen chicken breasts in this price range and each is usually 2 meals if I add in a bunch of veggies. fry/scramble eggs and add to any of the options.
your favorite stir fry sauce – $3ish
vegetables – $5ish. literally anything that you can 1. fry in a pan and 2. you’ll eat. fresh carrots are usually pretty cheap. get frozen if it’s cheaper and you’re strapped for cash/prep time on this part.
alternative to stir fry: pasta (~$2), fresh tomatoes (~$2), cheese (~$3).
cheese and fruit if you have extra – look if your store has loyalty cards for free that you can load coupons on for cheese there’s always one it seems like.
ahh thank you!!!
Reblogging because there’s never knowing who’ll need it.
Adding also: the single most nutritious food on earth is potatoes in their peel. Potatoes + some milk and butter = everything you need. They don’t last all that long, but they’re fairly cheap and the quickest cheat to “How do I not fuck my body up.”
(Cooked potatoes’ll last a while in the fridge. Potatoes nearing the end of their useful lives? Cook them to half-done first, figure out what to do with them later.)
Easiest baked potatoes: slice thinly but not paper-like, spread like cards, brush with oil (a silicone baking brush is totes worth the little it costs), spread salt and pepper (a little less than you think you’d like), cover with foil, stick in oven or toaster-oven at 150C for 40min. (If you have the patience, at that point click up to 180C, remove the cover and add 10-20min.) Reheats well, lasts in the fridge longer than it’ll take you to nom.
Dead-Animal-Free Whole Protein: some legumes + some grain. AKA rice and lentils, or rice and beans. (Maybe some fried onion for flavor; onion’s cheap and stays good a descent while. Fried onion makes everything taste better and keeps forever in the freezer, so frying up a bunch and keeping portions is not a half-bad idea.) (If going for the beans option – lentils are cheaper around here but fuck if I know what it’s like in your area – dump some tomato sauce and oil in; canola or soy are best health-wise, and far cheaper than olive; avoid corn.) Oh, what does instant couscous go for in your area? It keeps for fucking ever, it’s usually cheap, and it takes well to any and all added taste.
If you get to choose, black lentils taste the best and need the least soak-time (0-20min), green lentils are best for cooked stuff and red lentils are best in soups. (Red lentils + potatoes + root vegetables of choice + spices; cut into small pieces, cook, run through the blender if you wanna [stick blender’s awesome], freeze in portions.)
When possible, get instant soup mix. Get the good instant soup mix. (The kind that’s not made primarily of sugar, yeast or both. The rest is optional.) Dump 1/2tsp (or more, but start on the low end) into couscous, or chicken, or sprinkle over potatoes being stuck in the oven. Whatever. It’ll make most cooked-food-type things taste better. And again, lasts forever on the shelf.
If you can have eggs (goodness knows they’re sometimes expensive), dump some tomato sauce in a pan (tomato sauce lasts forever on the shelf), add some oil, onion/beans to cook in it, hot peppers if you wanna, then when it’s nearly ready crack an egg or two in. Hard-boiled eggs last a remarkably while in the fridge, so when eggs reach near the end of their usable lives, just hard-boil and stick in the fridge.
(Have eggs as often as you can, particularly as you have brain-shit going on. You need all the eggs, salt, and 60%-or-more chocolate you can get. Brains are made of cholesterol and salt, so folks with neuro or other brain shit need more of both. Potassium is also aces. You know what has the most potassium? Tomato paste.)
Grated cheese keeps in the freezer for ever. Grated cheese will make a lot of things taste nicer. Preserved lemon juice keeps forever in the fridge. Grated cheese + oil + lemon = instant and awesome pasta sauce that’ll liven up the weeks-old dry pasta in the fridge.
Slices bread also keeps well in the freezer. Try to have half a loaf or a loaf. Dry bread gets cut in cubes, mixed with oil and the aforementioned instant soup, stuck in oven at lowest until properly dry, then kept in an airtight jar to add to soups.
(Over-ripe tomatoes come cheaper. They get turned into soup or sauce, then frozen in portions.)
this is a very good post but why are we glossing over the fact that the alternative to ramen is bees
i have it on pretty good authority that bees are not an affordable eating alternative to ramen.
Seriously, bees are expensive
Trufax.
And speaking as someone who is also living off oatmeal, beans, and brown rice, if you need recipes, I have them!
Today I made 16 bean soup with chicken sausage and it was crazy good and I got 8 servings out of the one batch (froze half). I usually get the cheapest beans I can find, and GOYA bags of beans are usually $1-2. I soaked them overnight,rinsed them, and threw them in a gallon lidded saucepan with 2 boxes of chicken stock (also on sale for $2), two bay leaves, sauteed green pepper, onion, and celery, some garlic from a jar, about two tablespoons of dried herbs de provence,and the “fancy” bit was adding $6 bourbon and apple chicken sausages. You can actually sub veg stock for chicken and skip the sausage and make it vegan and it would still taste great.
Oh and I’ve been doing steel-cut oats. I don’t buy the name brand ones, I just pick whatever store brand/generic I can get for less than $4. They take about ½ an hour to make, but they’re super tasty and I make 2 cups
of dried oats at a time
with dried cranberries and that’s breakfast for 4 days at least.
I’ve also been making black bean soup, red beans and rice, and curried potatoes and chick peas. I got 100 quart and pint take-away containers from Amazon for $20 and they all stack neatly and are perf for one serving of whatever.
Additionally, depending on where you live, whole rotisserie chickens are something like $4-$7 and are easily 4 – 6 servings of protein and on TOP of that, if you stick the carcass in a ziplock bag and then the freezer you have excellent soup makings. Using bones in soup literally squeezes all viable vitamins and minerals out of the suckers. Soup made from lots of bones is great to keep around if you get sick, it’ll feed and sooth you relatively easily and as you get better you can add noodles. ON TOP OF THAT, a quarter to a half cup of soup broth added to a lot of dishes also adds those nutrients PLUS flavor.
push yourself to get up before the rest of the world – start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.
push yourself to fall asleep earlier – start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.
get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.
stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.
buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.
buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.
strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.
organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.
have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.
push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.
message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.
think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.
become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.
lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.
Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.
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