Financial Feng Shui Worked for this Dummy

I needed some financial feng shui for dummies this weekend, as I had  sequestered myself in my house to do my taxes. So of course, I immediately dove into a bunch of other ridiculous projects, like deep cleaning my house and watching all of House of Cards Season 2, in order to procrastinate. However, before I really sat down and looked for receipts in a haystack, I thought it might behoove me to give my financial corner a little feng shui zshush.

Following simple chart sloppily cut out from magazine and firmly placed in my sketchbook, I set off to work. You know, my kitchen cabinets are a source of pride for me and are usually really neat and organized. However, I realized the corner cabinets, both top and bottom, were the hodge-podge cabinets. The bottom one was where I toss coolers and pots and pans I never use, the top was full of old beer koozies, mis-matched china from my grandmother and plastic cups from ballgames. No wonder my finances are so disorganized.

I cleaned them both out thoroughly, and even came up with a dining table full of giveaway stuff. I also discovered I am a wine cork hoarder. I wrote and article awhile ago about recycling them and I’ve been hoarding them with that intent ever since. If anyone wants to do a craft project and needs wine corks, I’m your girl, you can have them! Anyway, this is still where I store my totally “uncool” stuff (the Eva Zeisel and Russel Wright stuff is proudly displayed elsewhere), but it’s clean and organized now.

The article also said “Place fresh flowers or a jade plant here. This is also a good spot in which to keep cash or a valuable treasure.” They are going to have to settle for some grocery store mums and a $3 Chinatown lucky turtle:

Then I shined up a fancy silver plate of my grandmother’s I’d unearthed in the cabinet cleanout and dumped my spare change into it, placing it in the center of middle shelf.

I know my photos are horrible but ignore that; here’s what happened. By Sunday evening I could procrastinate no longer. Knowing the moolah corner had some good mojo, I finally sat down to gather all of the papers I’d need to do my taxes. I found every single receipt and document I needed within 30 minutes. If you’ve ever laid eyes on my office and my “filing system,”  of clipping things to various lampshades and crumpling them up into bins, you know this is a miracle.

Now, I know there is much more to feng shui than what I did and I respect it very much. Perhaps one day I’ll hire a pro, but for now my next goal is to get some “awards, accolades or good luck symbols” into my reputation area. Right now the only object in there is a toilet plunger.

Do you use feng shui principals? Any stories to share about it? Please share!

via:http://blog.designpublic.com/2014/02/19/financial-feng-shui-worked-for-this-dummy/