2nd Hand

[aka pixi]

Have you ever bought something from an antique/2nd hand shop then thought that this thing has either brought you bad luck or as a strange feeling about it? If you have, what did you do? Did you keep what you bought, throw it out or give it and the bad luck/strangeness to someone else ?

[Kroozer]

Yes, stupid tools that I thought might "come in handy" but they didn't and so I just stored them for a few years then chucked them out.
And an old typewriter that was hopeless and got thrown out as well.

[bednobs]

the opposite. My engagement ring is second hand (or "antique" i prefer!) Anyway, i like to think that the person who had it before me had a long and very happy marriage and that makes m feel all warm and fuzzy (although sometims i wonder if that is the case, why it was in the antique shop)

[aka pixi]

lol kroozer i bought one of those old singer sewing machines years ago, I used it once then stuffed it in the back of the wardrobe. I decided the other day to take it back to the shop and give it them to re-sell, right waste of a tenner :(

so i take it your tools and typewriter didnt bring you bad luck and werent haunted then? lol

[aka pixi]

aww thats a lovely story bednobs :D maybe it ended up in the shop by accident?

I bought a silver ankh on a chain years ago from a 2nd hand shop. I seemed to have really bad luck from the day i bought it, but only if i was wearing it. In the end I threw it (just the ankh and not the chain) across the living room and couldnt find it when I looked for it later. When I moved house years later I found it behind the freezer in the kitchen (gawd knows how it got there) I put it on the side to chuck it in the bin and 10 minutes later went to get it and it had gone, i have never seen it since lol

[opra winfrey]

I did buy a secondhand wedding band .
I often wonder if this brought me bad luck in my second marraige .
But as i bought a new one for my third marraige i dont know if i can call the wedding band unlucky .

[DavidUK]

My wife suddenly started getting very bad headaches but only while she was at work. After a few weeks she accidently discovered the cause.

I had bought her an amethyst necklace while on holiday in France. She subsequently started wearing it every day for work and that's when, we realised afterwards, she had started getting the headaches. One day, though, she forgot to put it on and that day she didn't get a headache, which is when we made the connection!

So she stopped wearing it altogether and the headaches stopped. Weird, don't you think?

[Champagne]

I've bought loads of bits 'n bobs from 2nd hand or antiques shops and I've never had a problem. Someone once told me that you should never buy jewellery from antiques stores because it might be cursed... or sommat! But I've bought loads and they're fine.

Purses can bring me bad luck and I've always bought them from new. Have you ever had a bad luck purse? If it doesn't stay with you at all times or it randomly loses money/cards, then bin it!

[opra winfrey]

My purse has a bad effect on my credit card as it always seems to jump out whenevere i am near a shoe shop .
And it makes me buy a pair every time .

[jump79]

No, I don't think I have ever bought anything from an antique shop that was worth remembering...

I think jewellery, especially precious stones, can have a bad effect on some people because they may be sensitive to 'birthstones' .... my mom once wore a sapphire necklace (it was a gift) and had a strange rash break out around her neck , she later gave it away coz she thought it was bad luck. Sapphire's my birthstone (whatever that means) and had no effect on me, but then not much jewellery does...I guess some people are more sensitive to it than others.

[bednobs]

i would have thought a rash was probably more an allergic reaction to nickel or something in the jewellery, rather than a "sensitivity to a birthstone"

[Joe_the_Lion]

Not an antique as such but I once bought a tin or corned beef in Waitrose. When I was putting the carrier bags in the boot of my car the tine slipped out and fell on my toes. As I was wearing sandals it really hurt.

A day or so later when opening the very same tin, it sliced my finger right open. And that really hurt as well!!!

Bloody corned beef.

[Champagne]

ROFL @ Wardy!!!!

I've got a scar on my left index finger from Paul Newman's salad dressing. I opened it and the cut myself and needed stitches.

I can't watch a film with Paul Newman in now without thinking about that. It has scarred me physically and mentally.

[shineybomb]

My boyfriends family used to have a strange painting of a child on the wall from an old relative. Ever since, even though they have gotten rid of it, strange things keep happening at their house.

Someone/thing tried to strangle my father-in-law in bed (and it wasn't the mother-in-law)

A marble hit my boyfriend on the back of the head as he was walking up stairs one night, but there was no one else downstairs.

His TV turns itself on

And the dog would never go upstairs after dark on its own

[Octavius]

I bought a vintage guitar a while back and every time I played it my wife would shout at me. As soon as I stopped so did she. Spooky really, but it turned out that if any g-strings needed plucking it had to be her�s.

[Mammar]

A friend once bought me an ornament of a strange little wormy sort of creature and my two little ones were really freaked out by it.
We ended up burying it in the garden of the house so it couldn't "get them".

[Champagne]

I'm still laughing at the marble on the back of the head! Hahahahahaha!

You have a poltergeist with a sense of humour. I like that. :o)

That's the kind of thing I would do if I was a ghost.

[Champagne]

You mean like The Ring?

[shineybomb]

Rumour has it Champers that a little boy in a wheelchair died in their house - I wonder if thats why he threw the marble at my other half going upstairs!

By the way, I haven't stayed at their house since I heard this story!

[aka pixi]

aww thanks everyone :D

^^^^^ I would have said more cos i really enjoyed reading all that but im smashed and I will ramble :D