Hardware is symbolic of all the structural and mechanical elements of life, and a store is your ready access to the things that can make your life run more efficiently. Also, since many of the tools and materials purchased at such a location relate to the act of building, a trip to the hardware store in a dream could point to the need to construct something new or reconstruct something that is no longer functioning effectively. What needs fixing?
[1]1. A need or desire to fix things up, set them straight—often to repair or adjust attitudes and modes of behavior, usually to improve emotional quality of life.
2. Possible feelings of sexual inadequacy, need for improvements.
3. Difficulties in relationships, a need for repairs (as in to “patch things up”).
[2]Being at a hardware store announces the arrival of means to achieve your goals. Therefore, the better equipped it is the sooner you shall reach your goals.
If in the dream you see an ironmonger it means that you seek advice from someone more experienced and mature.
[3]To dream of a hardware store says only one thing - that you need to take a deep look within you and consider a change of mindset and attitudes.
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