Usually something from this list:
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dispose of it in the element related to the spirit/working (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)
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burn written spells, I keep them in a box and do a batch at once unless the nature of it makes me think it needs doing right away (special metal tongs and I do it outdoors)
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rip up and bury some sigils, to return them to Earth
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if I want to burn a sigil but not right away, I “disconnect” it (link below) and rip it into 4 pieces, like the equal-armed cross
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candle drippings, unless I think they need to be burned, I wrap in clean kitchen paper or a clean sheet of printer paper and put them in the household trash, we have a compost heap and dog but I would avoid putting them near meat or fish scraps if anything with those is in the bin
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other items, I bury either in our garden or if they;re not suitable for that, in the waste ground at the back of our house, or I bag them and drop them in a street bin, where their next destination will be a landfill (aka burial off my property)
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I save things that could be borderline problematic in a sealed metal tin
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finally, some things I hurl in the Thames, outside the central part mostly because there’s CCTV every damned where and it proobably breaks like a million byelaws, plus people might think they;re something really fucked up like weapons or whatever, I don’t even do this once a year, but occasionally things have had to go into the deep, like something associated with an old relationship or whatever. This is more about making a ritual for me, I guess, and I pay olf Father Thames with some flowers or wine.
I always “disconnect” anything that’s been linked to a spirit (like a sigil or whatever) using the method described here: