Witchcraft PSA
If you are a witch, and think you cannot afford herbs, crystals, or essential oils Ā PLEASE visit these sites!!Ā
Spirit Apothecary
It is BY FAR the best out of any place Iāve seen! Donāt go on Amazon, donāt go on Etsy. Ā Those sites are grossly over priced. Ā I see a lot of people trying to sell stuff for WAY MORE than itās worth and it really makes me mad. Ā
I mean, $2.50 for an ounce of Lavender flowers from France!Ā
OR go to Mountain Rose Herbs. You can save $1.00 by buying lavender there. Ā (They sell it for $9.00 for 4oz.) Ā Theyāre prices for herbs are great, too!Ā
Spirit Apothecary has better prices for essential oils though- for example: Bergamot Essential Oil is $8.00 @ S.A. for 1/3 oz. Ā it costs $16.50 @ M.R.H. for Ā½ oz. Ā Thatās over twice the price, but you donāt get twice as much, so I get all essential Oils at S.A.
MRH doesnāt sell, crystals, but SA does. Ā They are good quality and by far the most inexpensive. Ā Also they both have a facebook page.
If you really want to buy herbs, oils, and crystals, but think you canāt afford them, PLEASE, PLEASE check these sites out!!
Reblogging to add the Monterey Bay Spice Co.
Also if you want crystals, go to gem shows, make friends with the folks running the booth, geek out about stuff withĀ āem. Their stuffās almost always cheaper and frequently better-quality than metaphysical shops (sometimes by a huge margin), youāre likely to find less-common kinds, and on top of that IME if they like you theyāll cut you a discount off the sticker price about half the time without even having to ask. Sometimes gem-show people will even give you crystals just because you geeked out with them about their hobby.Ā I mean, I wouldnāt recommend just trying to bullshit a bunch purely to get cheap or free stuff, most people can smell a fake looking to manipulate them for deals (and donāt discount the possibility that some of the folks running show booths are witches themselves even if thereās no obvious metaphysical lean to their boothā¦ itās one of those hobbies that draws a certain type, and that type has a higher-than-average overlap with the type thatās drawn to witchcraft). But donāt assume youāll never be able to get a collection started just because youāre sorta broke. Go to gem shows. Bring whatever money you can afford to spend on stones, browse before you buy because the first booth you look at might be selling nearly identical quartz points for twice the price that the next one down the row has, do your research ahead of time so that you can avoid getting scammed by some jerk with dyed knockoff stuff (who may not even realize itās knockoff themselves, knowledge levels vary in any hobby, or who may have it just because itās a cheaper thing that kids who are just there to ooh and aah over shiny shit might blow their allowance money on), and enjoy learning more about rocks from people who fuckinā love em. Once in a while youāll find a booth staffed by someone who doesnāt know jack shit but will still try to spout off like theyāre an expert, Iāve had people try to feed me all kinds of bullshit. Just kind of smile and nod along with those people and let them ramble at you, but donāt pay more than anything is *actually* worth no matter what they *say* itās worth. This is usually gonna be the booths with more of a metaphysical-shop vibe, donāt let āem get ya down, just move along and find the guy with five tables full of buckets of raw slabs for cabbing and ask him questions about his rocks bc he probably collected and cut at least half of them himself (these folks are great, they might even teach you how to spot really cool shit in the wild that most people would never give a second glance to since it just looks kinda brown and blobby on the outside). And consider buying some of those cabbing-slabs too ā theyāre usually one of the cheaper forms of whatever stone they are that you can get, and theyāre great for incorporating in spells as altar plates; set a candle spell up right on top of a slab oā rock. Fire safety AND spell enhancement in one convenient package! Donāt be afraid to ooh and aaah over stuff thatās out of your price range, and definitely donāt be afraid to geek out a whole bunch about how cool crystals are ā everyone else there is a huge-ass rock nerd too, and excited geeking out is how you make friends with huge-ass nerds.Ā ā¦but while I know this is a post about how to obtain materials on a tight budgetā¦ if you can swing it, I recommend budgeting a little generously for the gem show. Youāre gonna see SO much cool shit that you can do SO much cool witchcraft with. Further bonus points: if youāre in the broom closet, you can absolutely pass this off as a mundane interest if you learn to speak rock-science a little bit.
