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Mostly interntional stuff, but not all. Look for the coins pre s as a lot of them were made of silver and worth some decent money — even international ones.
Of course, financial feng shui can work. Because every time you close a toilet lid, fix a leak, or remove an empty pot from the front door, you think about your finances, and oops, you remember that you have not paid the water bill which is pretty high because of that leak , funded your IRA, or set up a budget. Hey — that works for me! My family is obsessed with feng shui. When we bought our first home, my dad asked me of I checked the feng shui. I think there is a lot of wisdom in the feng shui concept, but the housing market is sometimes too sensitive for us to care about it.
People say that houses in this setting is having money flowing out to the street.
My argument is that money is actually flowing in. Direction of flow can change and I believe that I am changing the flow because talk is cheap. Action speaks louder than words and I took actions to make the money flow in. Keep your house decluttered Yes! Less to clean, fix, find, store, etc. We are hosting an upcoming yard sale to help declutter our house and make a little extra cash too! Those feng shui tips are good ideas in general. It helps to get you in the right mental state. It IS weird to enter a house and face a mirror. It IS unsettling to work with your back to a door.
I have savings, just not in that account. So I closed it. Next, I have to remove all the negative symbolism in my apartment- which basically means all the Redskins paraphernalia …. Imagine spending more money trying to feng shui your house as opposed to paying off debt or saving or investing that money.
I do like visual reminders and money does flow. Haha yup… Whatever it takes sometimes: The Dipper and The Bucket. Johnny told his wife about his debt! USAA - For insurance: USAA - For investing: Vanguard - For investing automatically: Acorns - For saving money automatically: Paribus - For cheap cell plans: Republic Wireless - For budgeting: Personal Capital - My favorite books on personal finance! Money, only claim the thoughts from my head. I am not a banker, CPA, money manager or anything else of that sort. Please seek a professional for any "real" advice. Pump up that wallet and get new blog posts emailed to you!
Blog posts go out 3x a week. May 29th, by J. You went way down the hole this time J! D I also found a coffee can of old coins my dad collected while in the Navy and immediately thought of you. I love this post J Money! Mindful Money just like people practice Mindful Eating. It worked like a charm. Even before she reopened, people were looking in the window, then coming in to say how beautiful the colors were. We had picked a light, greyish almond color for the other walls in that room, and the result was magnificent.
A most amazing use of red inside a home was in an old San Francisco Victorian building. The couple had painted the back wall of the bedroom a very sophisticated red, a very deep red. This was ultra-saturation, and there was a frieze along the top foot of the high wall. They had taken lines from an Antonio Machado poem and stenciled them in large letters so that you read it by turning fully around in the room.
Blue glass is appropriate here, as is ruby glass. Having that very boring, functional appliance in that particular area was the predicament of one of my San Francisco clients. To enhance the area, I recommended she replace the refrigerator with one that was cobalt blue. She jumped at the opportunity because she was planning to replace the fridge eventually. The next time I consulted for her, it was at her new chiropractic office, which was several times larger than her previous one. Any fridge in a Wealth Corner should be kept shiny and free of magnets and notes.
I told one client to make hers look royal, and she quickly went to work using purple carpet tiles and extravagantly beautiful pictures. She said that within a few hours she got a call from someone asking her to manage a vacation rental, which she described as the most lucrative part of her livelihood. The most powerful symbol of prosperity is an object that cost a lot of money.
It can be as small as a stamp or as large as furniture. Expensive objects are the main things I recommend for the feng shui money corner.
My husband was visibly shocked when I told him how much I paid for it—his words still echo in my head: The valuable object does not have to be visible. One client hid a ruby under the carpet of the house he had for sale. The house was empty and just sitting on the market. Actual money kept in a Wealth Corner should be hundred-dollar bills or collectable currency worth at least that much. This includes objects with dollar signs as their design, as well as fake money, such as from board games or enlarged reproductions of paper money.
They represent money leaving you. Some feng shui consultants advise not having water or images of water in a bedroom.
Some people find that keeping a fountain going all the time is like having a pet because a fountain does require attention. Her husband pooh-poohed the idea, but within a week their coffee shop reached the daily sales goal they had set for it, but had never quite made. A few days later they exceeded the goal. I think the fountain had nothing to do with our record-setting days. Fountain motors have very strong electromagnetic fields, which are bad for your health if you have prolonged exposure. A water image is my most frequent recommendation for Wealth Corners.
If growing plants are shown in the picture, so much the better—that symbolizes your wealth growing. A picture showing fresh water is better than a picture of only ocean water because fresh water can sustain you and your vegetable garden. Wood is the element for the Wealth Corner, and the best way to represent wood is with growing plants.
Plants with stiff, pokey leaves are to be avoided. This also applies in the far left corner of your backyard. Dried plants are very bad in any part of the home because they say dead. Just keep them clean and very realistically arranged. For many people that is the most feasible thing to do. The ideal living houseplants for the feng shui Money Corner have any of these four characteristics:. The round shape says that the plant is approachable. The succulent aspect symbolizes prosperity because the leaves are fat with water, and water symbolizes wealth.
Most succulents need direct sun or they become leggy, so if your Wealth Corner gets lots of sun, jade plant is a perfect choice. The flowers should be a rich red, rather than pink, because this is the area for rich colors. An extremely expensive African violet would be appropriate, especially if the flower color is a deep, rich tone. Palms are unmistakably elegant and very appropriate here, especially the expensive lady palm Rhapis excelsia. Consider a variegated lady palm if you can find and afford one, but make sure it has a distinct variegation, not a blurry variegation.
These two palms can grow without direct sun and are fairly trouble-free, which is important because sick or dying plants are sending the absolutely wrong message. Leaves can look like coins or they can look like paper money. Paper money is my favorite, but coins are better than nothing. Dieffenbachia species also called dumb cane has large dark green leaves with spots of white that are reminiscent of large paper currency. Jade plant Crassula ovata and its close relative silver dollar plant Crassula arborescens have rounded fat leaves which are like big coins, so they are good in the Wealth Corner.
Plants with purple leaves or flowers are excellent in the feng shui Wealth Corner. Any African violet that has richly colored flowers is excellent, with purple or violet being the ideal colors. Purple wandering Jew Tradescantia zebrina or T. Velvet plant Gynura aurantiaca , which was also recommended for the Relationship Corner, has beautiful soft, purple hairs and is good in the Wealth Corner as well.
Plants with rich red or blue flowers are also excellent. Put a clear, faceted crystal in the windows. The crystal symbolizes your wish that the wealth energy be dispersed back into the home before it leaves too quickly. Say out loud words to that effect. The crystal can sit on a ledge or hang. It could even be incorporated into a stained glass artwork. Use the largest crystal that will look appropriate in the window.
If the window gets direct sunlight, use an octagonal crystal, rather than a disco-ball shaped crystal, because the octagon shape makes much larger rainbows of color.
The flowers should be a rich red, rather than pink, because this is the area for rich colors. Too often, we forget we have and thus think we are doing without. You went way down the hole this time J! A mortgage broker called me to consult for her firm. If you continue to use the site, I will assume you are happy with it:
Lead crystal is softer than glass and the crystal not the window will chip if it knocks against the glass. Some consultants recommend hanging crystals with red thread; however, I use clear monofilament, such as fishing line, to hang crystals. My reason is that the crystal is the important thing, not what it hangs from.
You could also use sheer curtains over the windows, but they should be made of expensive material, such as silk or real handmade lace. My favorite window treatment in this area is a layered look—nice sheers with heavy drapes that are pulled to the side in the day and closed at night. Part of the extravagance of the drapes should be an excess of fabric, where some of it puddles on the floor.
Drapes that puddle on the floor are used in feng shui to pull energy upward, which is almost always a good direction to move energy. Mirrors represent windows—not the tiny coin-size mirrors, but regular-size mirrors in which you can easily see yourself. Holes in the wall are also opportunities for energy to leak away, so spackle over any miscellaneous holes that have been left by pins, nails or screws.
Another way that energy can leak out of a home is through wall sockets. If something is plugged into the socket, there is no leak, but if the holes are visible there is leakage. In some homes when the weather is cold, you can feel cold air seeping in through bare sockets on outside walls. The solution is simple—use opaque socket protectors or covers, the kind that prevent babies from sticking things into the sockets.
Opaque ones are better, preferably in the same color as the socket plate.