Witchcraft on a Budget

I use bottles as candle holders, I really enjoy the look of them too and didn't have to spend a dime.

I live in Finland, and we don't have Dollar Tree or anything like that. We had Tiimari, but it closed a few years ago, and ever since it's been difficult to find decent candles with a decent price tag.

Anyway...

I wrote a comment in a Facebook group, and I'm copy+pasting it here because it fits here.

If you have Google, access to even the smallest bit of nature, and a decent spice cabinet (this time I mean more than just salt, even though salt is an excellent ~witchy ingredient~ in and of itself, too), you're good to go about doing some witchery. You also have the planets, the stars, the moon, the sun, the wind, the rain...

If you've any money to spare, go visit your local thrift stores with an open mind. I found a copper cauldron for 4 euros, a gold-colored plate for my crystals for 1 euro, a photo frame for 1,5 euros (and I painted the glass black, thus I now have a black mirror), and I found a wooden bell thingy for cleansing with I think 1 euro. Someone I know donates me the shedded skins of her snake.

Google is your best pal, also check out Witchipedia (although if you were to search Google with, say, "bay leaf witch correspondences", you'd probably end up on Witchipedia) and pinecone.pub, and also the witchy side of Tumblr (witchblr) and search for "budget witchcraft" or "witchcraft on budget" on there.

Go to the library. Find books on everything that strikes your fancy.

Take everything – even this comment! – with a grain of salt, cross-reference everything, keep an open mind, and most importantly: record everything that resonates with you <3

If you have moved a lot or just have boxes of stuff and can't remember what's in them, unpack them! We recently did this and found things we didn't even remember we had! I found and heavy brass hand bell, a vintage style candle holder (the kind you can actually carry around), a box with a ring and interchangeable stone marbles (most are synthetic tiger's eyes, but there were some quartz and hemetite), a box of hand dipped candles, and sever al small apothecary style bottles.

Also, second hand shops. A friend gifted me a teapot from a local shop, I've gotten some tea cups, seen some lovely vintage jewelry boxes (want to go back and get some) that would make lovely herbal kits and secret altars, old skeleton keys, and various stones.