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Here is a list of unconventional and affordable ingredients that can be used in spells and witchcraft along with their correspondences; good for witches “in the woods” and witches on a budget. Many of these can be easily found for inexpensive prices or at home.

• Acorns/Acorn Caps: security, abundance, longevity, good luck, youth and brings good health
  
• Animal toys/stickers: relates to correspondences of that animal
• Artist’s Charcoal: banishing negativity, protection; cursing
• Baby Powder: cleansing, beauty, youth
• Baking Soda: cleansing, purification, protection
• Birthday Candles: wishes, joy; color magic and number magic depending on their color and/or what number they display
• Black Tea Bags (used): earth magic, grounding, strength, stability, banishing negativity; ending, death 
• Bottle Caps: prosperity, luck, material gain
• Bubble Bath: self-love, relaxation, emotional healing, serenity; plus whatever scent the bubble bath is affects correspondences
• Bubbles/Bubble Liquid: wishes, joy, whimsy, imagination, fantasy
• Buckeye Nuts: luck, sexual energies, warding
• Butter: femininity, flattery, friendship, warmth, happiness; good for fae work
• Candy Bars: love, romance, happiness, lust, fertility, emotional healing, healing of the heart, forgiveness, friendship
• Candy Corn: courage, imagination, endurance, energy, motivation, happiness, celebration
• Candy Foil: sweetness, secrets, protecting one’s emotions; color magic
• Chocolate Syrup/Milk: happiness, love, lust, romance, sweetening relationships
• Cocktail Swords: strength, assertiveness, competition; cursing, revenge; ending rumors
• Cotton Balls: beauty, gentleness, warmth, sleep
• Cotton Swabs: cleansing, purification
• Dice: chance, opportunity, luck; number magic
• Dirt: grounding, earth magic, growth, prosperity, patience, home and family; cursing
• Dish Soap: cleansing
• Duct Tape: binding, storing energy, cursing
• Egg Shells: cleansing, protection, warding
• Energy Drinks: energy, motivation
• Envelopes: messages, communication, protection during travel
• Epsom Salts: purification, cleansing, protection, pain relief, serenity, comfort, stress relief
• Fake/Play Money: wealth, prosperity
• Fish Sauce: prosperity, water magic, curses
• Foil: glamour, protection, storing energy, binding
• Glue: sealing, immobility, binding, curses
• Googley Eyes: vision, divination, scrying, creativity, protection, imagination; curses, paranoia, nightmares
• Grass: growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss
• Hand Soap: cleansing, curse removal
• Hole Punches: good for cursing
• Hot Sauce: motivation, lust, confidence; cursing, anger, revenge, emotional pain
• Koolaid: youth, sweetness, happiness; color magic, corresponds with flavors as well
• Lip Balm: glamour, confidence in speaking, honesty, beauty
• Lollipops: sweetness, innocence, ending rumors and lies, lust and sexual energies, love
• Lotion: protection, beauty
• Laundry Soap: cleansing, purification
• Marshmallows: friendliness, comfort, gentleness, fidelity, sleep and dreams
• Metal Crafting Wire: binding
• Modeling Clay: poppets, earth magic, grounding, balance, stability, creation, change
• Mud: grounding, earth magic; curses
• Muslin: poppets, change, creativity
• Noodles: Longevity, good health
• Pompoms (craft): gentleness, comfort, love, sleep, dreams
• Paper Clips: balance, focus, organization; curses, binding
• Pennies: luck, wealth
• Pickle Juice: curses to sour things
• Plastic Bags: protection; binding
• Plastic Ribbon (wrapping): happiness, glamour, delight; binding; color magic
• Plastic Wrap: binding
• Popsicle sticks: poppets
• Scissors: offensive magic, curses
• Seltzer Water: purification, removing negativity; curses
• Sewing Needles: curses, pain
• Shaving Cream: cleansing, softness, patience, calmness
• Stamps: travel, communication
• Sour Cream: cursing
• Soy Sauce: protection, banishment; cursing
• Sticky Notes: communication, memory
• Strawberry Milk: love, self-love, beauty, sweetness, friendship
• Syrup: joy, sweetening one’s emotions
• Taco Sauce: Focus, Energy, motivation
• Taffy: joy, flexibility
• Thumbtacks: curses
• Tissue Paper: softness, serenity; color magic
• Toothpaste: cleansing
• Toothpicks: curse
• Walnut Shells: protection, warding
• Wasabi: Energy; curses, anger, envy
• Whipped Cream: beauty, light-heartedness
• Whistles: communication, attention grabbing, warding

Other Tips:

• Recycle bottles, jars and medicine bottles for jar/bottle magic
  
• Reuse tea bags (though not too long after use) in bath magic
• If you do wish to use herbs, it is cheaper to order them online in bulk rather than the supermarket. Trust me, supermarkets and grocery stores really over price most herbs. You can get triple the amount for 2 dollars less online
• Make up and toiletries are great for glamours
• Its fine to use kitchen knives if you can’t afford am athame
• Look at the ingredients in food you eat to see what is in it and determine that food’s correspondences, quick and easy kitchen magic
• Crayons, colored pencils, markers and pens are good for easy sigil and color magic
• Binders are cheaper than blank books and make great grimoires

Tumblr’s going to ban the kind of thing we have been doing for five years now on this blog in a little over a week. D/s et al will not be tolerated here, as I predicted years ago when Yahoo bought the platform.

Where are you BDSM, D/s lovers and pornography deviants going once that happens?

I’m into the D/s game for life. I don’t have much choice. So I’ll jump ship to wherever we will be welcomed.

Drop in alternative sites in private messages, chats, replies.

Nut Milk

I wrote this whole post then hit the escape button on accident so this may be of lower quality than before sorry :(

Cows are responsible for a disproportionate amount of methane and CO2 gasses that contribute to global warming. These being the facts, it is no wonder that more and more of the environmentally conscious are embracing veganism as well. One change you can easily make is the milk you drink! Some of the most common alternatives to traditional cow’s milk are almond, oat, cashew, and rice milks. While these don’t contain as much protein as cow’s milk, they are generally lower in calorie count and better for your overall health. This is particularly true because cows nowadays are often injected with hormones and steroids, which we ingest through the milk. By switching away from cow’s milk, you can avoid this (and keep them out of your childrens’ systems!!). You can also make your own substitution milks, so that it will contain the most basic ingredients, be almost entirely zero waste, and from what I’ve found, it can even be cheaper than what you might purchase in the store. I’ve been drinking almond milk for four months now and I love it! I’ll use my roommate’s regular milk on occasion but I’ve always had trouble drinking cow’s milk straight and now it’s even more true, because I love the taste of almond milk and the cow’s milk now to my palette has a bit of an animal-y taste to it, the same way that goat’s cheese does.