Re: Feng shui and the toilet seat

A rental house I lived in a few years back really took the cake of in the feng shui flushing finance stakes. The front door opened on to a hallway leading straight to the toilet door. From what I've read about Feng shui, that is very inauspicious, it means that symbolically any finances come in the front door and end up straight down the toilet. I tried to make sure the door and lid were shut, not easy to do when you have small children (at least one visitor to my house was greeted by the sight of a small child on the loo). I started with what I had, setting up a small decorative table and setting on it a small silver vase that had a rounded reflective base. I also toyed with the idea of curtaining the doorway off, but couldn't afford it. I do feel that my ploy worked as not very long afterwards our financial situation turned from being in a losing situation (even though dh was in a high paying job) to being able to buy our own house outright (DH was offered and took redundancy after fighting months for it.

DH was out of work for over two years after that and I did have to get a job but we needed him to work as well. He was having trouble so I looked into some Feng Shui treatments to try. A week after I did that, he was offered a temporary situation at my job (4 weeks work) helping with stocktake. They liked his work ethics so much that they then offered him casual work - several shifts a week until he got full time work. I kept the treatments going until after he found fulltime work. I still work, but our combined wages are nowhere near what he used to earn but we are so much better off. We never have had so much financial security.

I have also set a three legged toad at the front door. I never liked them and wasn't going to have something so ugly in my house. One day in a little bargain shop I found some and picking up one realised how right it felt. I put it down and looked at the others - even identical ones but they didn't feel as right as the first one. Sometimes things are meant to be.

Just keep going and if something doesn't feel right to you - don't do it - Feng Shui in my opinion is based on feelings.