Hey, check it out--I think I stumbled onto some karma.

[Orrex]

My job requires me to drive extensively during the day, and during the past two weeks I've been in one part of rural eastern Ohio.

Last week I drove past a 17" CRT monitor and a keyboard that were marked "works," so I turned around and went back to pick them up. I put them both in my trunk, and on my way home at the end of the day I dropped them off at a local thrift store. Unlike Goodwill, this store is staffed by volunteers, and all of the proceeds from sales (after utilities and rent) go directly into a small, six-bed "drying out" facility. In the past we've donated a lot of baby stuff to this store, as well as some basic articles of furniture. But computer stuff seems to go pretty well for them, so I was happy to be able to give it to them.

So yesterday I happened to be driving on the same stretch of Ohio road, and I saw that someone else had thrown out a 21" monitor. Once again I stopped to pick it up, even though there was no "works" sign. It was missing the power cord and the SVGA cable, but I had those.

As it turns out, the monitor works perfectly despite its age (nine years), and it's quite a bit bigger than the 17" one I'd been using. I suppose that I could donate this one as well, but my spirit isn't quite that generous. Regardless, the thrift store will be getting my old and fully functional monitor, so everybody wins. Of course, now I need a sturdier desk...


Okay, anyone here who knows me probably knows that I'm not actually a believer in karma, but I still have a healthy appreciation for nifty coincidence when it pops up, as it appears to have done in this case.

[MorningGlow]

1. Well, my friend, in ASAH parlance,

you have indeed received blessings from the universe for your thoughtfulness and compassion. ;)

Good on you for thinking of others. :yourock:

[Orrex]

6. My bad experience with "Goodwill" stores has inspired me to help generic thrift stores all the more!

Honestly, I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised if the 21" monitor didn't work when I brought it home because, after all, it was in the garbage! Surprisingly sharp picture quality, though. I only wish that I had a better video card.

Guess I need to keep my eye on the trash!

[SheilaT]

2. I don't know if this actually fits

the definition of karma, but it certainly feels like the Universe taking care of you.

Here's a true story. Several years back, on a very windy day, I stopped to get gas in my car. I put the $20 bill I was going to use to pay for it (I always pay cash for my fuel) on top of my car, and weighed it down with my keys. But it was VERY windy, and the next thing I knew, the $20 bill had been blown a very long way away. I was angry and distressed, but fortunately had more money with me so I was still able to get gas.

About a week later I went to check my mail. The mail hadn't arrived yet, but there was a $20 bill inside my mailbox.

[Orrex]

5. LOL! I'm sure that it's not "karma" in the traditional sense

Yours was a cool story, though! Must have been very windy indeed to blow it all the way into your mailbox!

[Celebration]

15. Great story, here is mine

I told a friend at work I would treat her for lunch for her birthday. We walked to the Chinese place, and outside the door, on the sidewalk, was almost the exact amount of money that I needed to pay for both of our meals.

I don't know that it was karma or not-- I was in a sort of money finding mode, as well as finding other things. I retrieved someone's driver's license outside the liquor store; I found money leftover from a deposit someone made outside a bank (had enough info in it to turn back into the bank manager), and found a crisp one hundred dollar bill on the floor of the CD store. Nobody claimed it for a month so I got to keep it.

All this happened within a short period of time.

:shrug:

[I Have A Dream]

3. Very nice!

:thumbsup:

:D

[get the red out]

4. Good stuff!!!!

No matter what one believes, I am quite certain that people on the lookout to help others come across opportunities to do so, and other opportunities as well.

[Celebration]

7. you have learned the art of manifesting

CRT monitors.

Strange the things that we conjure.

Come back when you find a brand new flat screen LCD! If you believe that would require giving this monitor to the thrift store, then I say go for it.

Otherwise, you have a nice, new, old monitor.

I have to say that I had an old CRT monitor that worked part of the time, but not all the time. Before you give away your old one you might want to make sure that this one is entirely reliable.

[Orrex]

8. LOL!

Actually, I've amassed quite a few old CRTs over the years. I can afford to give up another one without risking anything!

[Why Syzygy]

9. I betcha

tomorrow while you're driving around for work, you can amass sightings of red cars.

[Why Syzygy]

10. Here's mine.

Last week I had almost a whole pack of cigarettes in my sweater pocket when I put it in the washing machine. Yesterday when I did wash, I found $5 one dollar bills in the washer. It paid me back!

[Orrex]

11. But now you have your washing machine hooked on nicotine

You're a bad, bad person!

;)

[I Have A Dream]

12. ...

:rofl:

[Why Syzygy]

13. You

enjoyed typing that. Didn't you? :evilgrin:

[Orrex]

14. Who? Me? Never!

O8)

[Orrex]

16. Karma, part two!

I went back to that same shop, this time with an "artist's studio chair" that was given to us as a well-meant but hopelessly ill-considered gift. It fit no aspect of our home whatsoever, not in form or function or anything else, in part because it was too high to coordinate with anything under our roof. Ultimately we decided to pass it on.

As it turns out, the shop was looking to buy a chair much like this one, because it's the perfect height for use behind their counter. It also offers a footrest and lumbar support, which can't be bad, right?

While I was there, I poked around in the inventory for anything worth grabbing, and I found a low-end telescope such as you might find at CVS or Ollie's for $24.99, but the price was a handsome $2.00! Sold!

I bought it mostly on a whim, but also because I thought my five-year-old would like to see the moon's craters. The weather finally cooperated tonight, and although it's cold, it's clear enough to do a little gazing, and he was utterly delighted! He's seen pics of the moon online, on tv, and in books, but he was thrilled to see them for himself.

As it turns out, the telescope is also sufficiently powerful to make out Jupiter's four moons, which just about blew his mind!


So, in the end, this $2.00 tube actually resulted in quite a nice gift to myself, since his overjoyed excitement was more that I could have hoped for!



Maybe it still doesn't quite qualify as karma, but I'll take it!

[Celebration]

17. That is great--

I would love to see Jupiter's moons through a telescope. How cool!!

If you drop by thrift shops you can find all sorts of interesting things, occasionally. We have threads here about "manifesting" certain objects in garage sales, etc. It really is something separate from karma, IMHO. But it helps to have good vibes to be able to manifest things.

[Orrex]

18. I was really surprised that such a cheap telescope could reveal them!

And by "cheap" I mean both "inexpensive" and "low quality," because it truly is about the most basic, entry-level model you could hope to find.

But it'll keep us happy until we can get our mitts on a better one!

[SheilaT]

22. Some years back we were given a telescope.

I no longer remember much about it, but I do recall that when we aimed it at Jupiter the first thing we saw were the four moons.

I felt like Galileo. In our case, we already knew about the moons. For him it must have been so astonishing, so amazing.

[winyanstaz]

19. yup..you are manifesting...and it gets very amazing some times :)

Once when I was first learning to manipulate matter..I asked for a new vacuum cleaner hose. My sons had left my new vacuum hose against a wall heater which had melted it (plastic).
I was upset so I decided to stop worrying about it and I decided to go for a ride so we all headed to the woods. A ways into the mountains we all stopped for a pit stop..and I wondered up the trail a short hike.
There on a pile of thrown out yard waste was a brand new..still had the tag on it vacuum hose that fit my vacuum perfectly. :P
Some might like to try visulizing green lights and front row parking.....or being a "plow" of white light clearing the way and all the negative thought forms as you are going down the highway.... works great and gets that traffic moving :)

[Celebration]

20. the coolest manifestation I had

We were on vacation and my daughter was having back pain in the sacroiliac. We walked into the tiniest little drug store in a remote area, and a size S back brace, made of leather, velcro, and elastic presented itself. It was the only one they had. I have never seen one like it since then. It got us through the vacation. This was an independent pharmacy that barely had anything other than aspirin.

Remarkable!!

Stuff like this happens on a fairly regular basis--things popping up at antique malls, garage sales, etc.

Once I manifest a brown evening pantsuit. I just kept visualizing what I wanted and I went to Dillard's and there it was. And so on, and so on, and so on. I think I posted here about my manifestation of a brass dodecahedron paperweight. That was really "proof" that I wasn't imagining all this stuff.

[winyanstaz]

21. that back brace was certainly a gift of spirit :)...

I call it "going with the Flow/Spirit when you are at the level of seeing more and more of your thoughts manifest :)