One thing that kinda ticks me off time after time is the exclusion of short-on-cash witches in the witchcraft community. I see a lot of posts of people’s fancy new $40 Etsy crystals, or handcrafted leather-bound Book of Shadows. Quite a few of my witch friends, including myself, have found ourselves without proper money and the access to the materials we need for our craft.
Here’s a few tips I’ve picked up since:
Here’s a few tips I’ve picked up since:
- Remember that your description of being a witch shouldn’t be defined by how many things you have. If you have a pack of 70
¢birthday candles, you’re no less of a witch as someone with a collection of $20 Yankee jar candles. - The dollar store (and garage sales!) is your new best friend. Honestly, you can find just about anything there. Candles, glass containers, bottles, dried herbs, scarves, charms, lighters, matches, essential oils - anything.
- Steal things from the fridge and cupboards. Go shopping with your mum and gently mention that her cooking is in a dying need of fresh sage or sandalwood oil. Some fresh flowers would look nice on the kitchen table.
- Make music a special part of your craft. Tie your favourite songs into your handiwork to help with inspiration.
- Any space can be made in to an altar or workspace. Whether the corner of your dresser or a drawer of your bed-side table - it doesn’t need to be big or flashy or anything like the displays you’d see on Tumblr.
- A lot of perfumes use real flowers/plant essential oils in their contents.
- Fancy journals can be found at the dollar store for dirt cheap. Use that and a pack of glittery pens for your Book of Shadows. If you’re not one for writing things down, just about all your witchy research can be done online - no one said that your BoS can’t be on your laptop.
- Not all spells require crystals, candles, herbs and/or chants. Make things as simple as you need.
- Look into Kitchen Witchcraft if you’re worried about your practice being found out/shunned upon by your parents or other people in your house. No one’s ever suspicious about cooking.
- Packets of flower seeds are 60¢ at most Walmarts.
