St. Joseph the Patron Saint of Real Estate??!!

My long time client and friend is Catholic and ever since she heard we were selling our house she has been offering to send me a statue of St. Joseph to bury upside down in my garden. I am not Catholic... in fact I don't identify with any religion BUT I can be superstitious. After a year of only a handful of people looking at our house I told her bring on the good mojo St. Jo! Three days before our second open house he arrived from Amazon. A little 4" resin statue, instructions on how to treat him and a prayer card to read to him. I was skeptical but thought it couldn't hurt to bury him while my husband was pretty sure I was crazy. SO I buried him right in the front flower bed. Sure enough 3 days later we had an offer! This of course has completely triggered my superstitious side. My husband laughs at me but I can take it! Although, I do admit that I feel super awkward reading the prayer card (printed in China) to a plastic (made in China) figurine that I buried head first into my flowers. I am not quite sure where the awkward comes from. The unfamiliar reading of a prayer? The made in China plastic figure? Or the fact that I was required to bury him upside down in my garden?

Unfortunately St. Jo couldn't hold on to this sale and it fell through. I left him alone all summer. Only a few people came to see the house. Finally another good friend suggested that maybe St. Jo needed some air and a little scolding to remind him not to get too comfortable in his very flowery home. So I actually did dig him up and we had words. I then shoved him right back in his hole a little more roughly than the first time I buried him.

The little plastic St. Joseph helped again! He ended his vacation and went back to work.
The result is a sold house and we are renting just a few miles from the build site.
So... If you ask your little plastic St. Joseph to help you, keep in mind you need to dig him up and have little talks or he goes on a garden vacation!