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I was just told by my nail lady (and we know they know EVERYTHING) that if you bury a stature of St Joseph (now don't laugh) "upside down" in your front yard, then you will sell your home in a couple of weeks.

Before you slide off your chairs laughing....Others told me the same thing.....

Has anyone out there heard that "tale"???

A friend said she heard the same thing from a Realtor and swears that it works!

As you can tell, I'm willing to try ANYTHING!

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news darbyduff, but we were told that as well, by more than one person, and being desperate to sell and relocate here in the Villages we finally relocated and are still waiting for the house to sell. That was over a year ago.

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Actually I saw this reported on national news. Not that it works, but that there were people doing it. In fact, someone had a business selling little statuettes for burial.

Sorry, but I cannot imagine anyone believing such a thing!

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I heard about it and bought a small, inexpensive statuette off the internet and buried it according to instructions last August. Alas, St Joe is still staring at the "For Sale" sign so he hasn't worked any magic for me.

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Thanks.... at least I know (and others know) that I wasn't going nutty!!!

Maybe by just writing to the Talk of the Villages, it's going to bring me good luck. As I was reading the response's, my husband to me we have a showing on our house tomorrow!!!!!!

Wish me luck. :bigthumbsup:

And El Cid... I am very sorry your home hasn't sold. I wish we could afford to just buy down in the Villages even if our house doesn't sell, but ...................

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I tried burying the statue in NC before we moved here and our home sold in 2 weeks!!!

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WOW!

How long was it on the market before it sold? Ours has been on the market since the first of April! We live in Colorado and are trying to move to the Villages!! 8)

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I think there is a little more involved in the "magic" than just burying the statue. The kit that I bought included a prayer that you were suppose to say every day. The house we were selling last summer sold in about 6 weeks. (Of course, perhaps it would have sold in 6 weeks without the statue, who knows?) But, I like to think it helped.

Mary Lou

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Thanks Mary Lou.... Why not??? ;D

I guess no matter when your house sells you can say it was because of the statue. I didn't know about the prayer though but I'm praying every day that the house sells, might as well through in another one while I'm at it! :bigthumbsup:

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The first time I heard this was Christy Lee from the Bob & Tom radio show mentioning it a few years ago. Sorry folks but I'm not digging up my yard. I've done it twice in the past 2 years. My neighbor aerated his yard and while making the turn on my property he diced the underground electric fence wire. It's probably a good thing he's an animal lover. I talked to the man upstairs not once but twice about this. He said to read the commandment Stating "Thou shalt not kill" :verymad: AMEN !

Steve

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Our house in Michigan was on the market for almost a year and then our realtor buried a St. Joesph and sold in two weeks. Of course that was also a different realtor from previous. Hey, it can't hurt to try!
Do a google (or any other engine) search on this and you will come up with tons of info, stories, etc.

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Not being Catholic, I had heard this "trick" years ago. I did bury some kind of a statute in front of our house that is for sale, but not upside down. It has been a month and no bites on the house. A few lookers but no takers. We are praying hard to sell so we can move to the Villages.

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O.K. everyone..... I just returned from the Catholic book store! For $6.00 I thought "Why Not!!" The lady said that it works better if you have it "blessed" but not being Catholic I didn't know how to go about doing that.

There are so many of you who have your house on the market waiting for it to sell and trying to move to TV that I thought I 'd be the Guinea pig and if it works than you can all jump on board!!! If not then I will feel somewhat foolish ........... here goes.

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We put our house on the market the first of April! Good luck to you too. If this dosn't work then I'll bury the dog upside down!!!! ;D

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Hi,
I've always thought burying a statue of a saint too superstitious, but I did make a novena (nine days of special prayers) asking for St. Joseph's intercession in selling our home. After ten months on the market, with two different realtors, it sold quickly after I finished the novena. I just shared it with a member of our parish whose home had been listed for months, and --- his home sold the week after finishing it.

It's available at:

http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/joseph.htm#1

Rose

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Just read the instructions... I have to have it blessed first! I'm not Catholic so I have to find a church, get over my embarrassment, get a couple of dollars together (I hear it cost to have something blessed) and then bury it. Continuing saga...I'll let you know when it's in the ground!!

It would be easier to bury the dog!!!!! ;D

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Rose,

Can I still say the Novena if I'm not Catholic? Wouldn't that be sacreligious?

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Faith is an amazing quality, and it can move mountains where pragmatism locks one's heels into the ground.

My spouse and I "buried St. Joseph" three years ago when our house in Seminole County went three months without selling - and 48 hours later it was under agreement.

...SteveZ

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What your going to read next is the truth....you can't make something like this up!!! :o

I went to a funeral for a distant acquittance of my husband and I. I took "St Joseph" and asked my husband to stop at a Catholic church on the way home so I could have it blessed. We were talking to a couple we knew prior to the start of the funeral and I was tellling them about stopping off to have "St Joe" blessed. She said she was told by a member of her church that any member of the church could bless the stature with some holy water and with that, she reached into her purse and pulled out a small vial of ................yup, you guessed it........ holy water!!!! I asked her why she kept holy water in her purse and she said "Haven't you heard the stories of our house being haunted????" "When ever anything out of the ordinary happens, I take out the holy water"! With that, she took the stature, made the sign of the cross with the holy water and blessed my St Joseph right there at the funeral! (I told you, you can't make that up!)

Ok, here's my question to all you Catholic's out there......Will that work or should I still take it to the church to have it blessed by a real Priest? I'm serious!

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Hi, I'm LindaZ -(wife of SteveZ from above).

I have total faith in St. Joseph giving you what is best.

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when you buy the box that the small st. Joseph statue comes in ther are instructions how to burry him and if it should be the front or back of the house plus the daily prayer and when the house is sold or you are ready to move you dig him up and put him in a place of hornor in the home ( it really says that ) -- in Phoenix I had a hard time selling my home so I could come to the Villages so i brought St. Joseph did every thing accoprding to the instuctions an in a month my house was sold .. could have been the timing but when I went to dig him uip I could not find him and this is in a 6x6feet square of dirt ...... from friends in Phoenix that house has been sold now 3 more times ..... he still working ............ I did it again in the villages
when i upgraded but this time I found St Joseph and he is in the house ............

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What I really need to know now is...Is the blessing from a member of the Catholic church (with holy water) ok or do I have to have it blessed by a Priest. I called the Catholic church in our area and they said I could set up an appointment with the Priest but is that necessary......????? :dontknow:

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i did not have my 2 status blessed by a priest --- and i do not remember the instructions that came in the kit saying it had to be--
also the kit was i believe from a relious order i could be wrong as i no longer have the box............also i believe most people who buy the small statue of St. joseph's do not have it blessed.........
hope you recieve more comments in regards to this .....

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We buried St. Joe upside down in the back yard facing the house per the instructions. Our dog who is prone to digging, dug it up. Since we are moving to a place that doesn't allow dogs, we sold the dog AND HIS HOUSE in less than two weeks. So I guess it kind of worked but our house is still for sale.

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well you had 2 houses for sale and you did sell one -- so it worked
hehhe :bigthumbsup:

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Jim, That is a HOOT! :joke:

OK guys, I have heard enough..I'm biting the bullet tomorrow.

At 9:00 A.M. Mountain States Time I will be burying St Joe. Thanks to all who have helped me on this rather silly journey. The only problem is... I was very serious!!! ::)

Those of you who are trying to do what my husband and I are trying to do.... move to the Villages... I will let you know how we're doing..... Or just keep your windows open where ever you live and you'll hear us YELL if the house sells!!!!!!! :clap2: :clap2:

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I don't believe he needs to be blessed, put in him in the ground and let him do his thang!!

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Sorry you guys, but I say this in Christian Love. Remember the first commandment. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, says the Lord. All through the Old Testament, God's people were sinning by worshipping idols make of stone, wood, that could not speak, or hear. God delt harshly with them until they repented. I think doing something like that make God very unhappy if not angry and rightfully so. You might not think it is worship but God does. Why did he get so mad when they made the golden calf when Moses was up on the mountain getting the 10 commendments? Do you want to make God unhappy. He loves you and will give you an abundent life if you obey him. Pray to him about selling your house and he will in his Perfect Timeing. He did for us. Beltlady

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Oh Oshunlva, I am sooooooooo jealous! Great going! ;D ;D ;D

Ok... here goes the novenas :bigthumbsup:

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True Story_We listed our house in CT in August, 2005. Now, we had a beautiful home but it sat on a steep slope and to get to the third bedroom upstairs you had to walk through the second bedroom so it was going to take "the right person" to buy the house. Nothing much happened until my sister-in-law told us about St Joseph. So, figuring I had nothing to lose, I acquired a St Joseph statue in January, 2006. I felt totally stupid scraping away snow and ice and the burying him after chopping through several inches of dirt. Three weeks later, "bing bada boom"..the house sold at full price in what was getting to be a shaky market. We moved to the Villages but I left St Joseph in the ground. Long story short, a year later, the new owner listed the house in a tough "on it's way to terrible" market and "bing bada boom" the house sold almost immediately at a premium. Now, whether it was the beautiful kitchen with fireplace that we had or whether it was St Joseph is open to conjecture. Me (a lifelong Protestant) thinks it was more St Joseph than the kitchen...or, at least, a very nice blend of both. So, we are thankful and remain a bit in awe. We remember St Joseph in our prayers.

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Well, I'm a firm believer in all things that I don't understand! I too am a Christian and I was thinking that as much as God has to worry about these days all over the world, the last thing I want to do is burden him with the sale of our house.

Anyway, it's been 1.5 weeks since St Joseph went "under" and so far, not a showing. And we have the type of house that our Realtor told us when he listed it the first of April.."This house will go in less than a month"

But I still believe!!

I'm so glad for all of you that have sold your home and are living my husband and my dream of living in TV.

(Did you notice a bit of sarcasm there???? ha ha) No really, I am happy for all of you!!! Like my husband says.."It will happen when it happens" or wait, maybe that was Yogi B.!????

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One thing that we did before we put our house on the market was to tear out the kitchen and put in a beautiful, state of the art, and very charming kitchen. You had to see this to believe it. We had a Mass. Bay Colony Reproduction Cape circa 1640....but the kitchen had a fireplace that you could almost walk into. When we tore out the cabinets, I discovered a wooden ceiling that someone had covered with wallboard. Once we tore all that out and had the new cabinets installed, I redid the ceiling and painted it. We then tiled the floor after I ripped out all of the crappy white tile. We put in splashguard tiles; a new chandelier to match the colonial setting; and, painted the walls. The point of all this is we invested about $35K saving a bunch in sweat equity and got back roughly double that in the sale price of the house (per our realtor and appraiser) . I have absolutely NO doubt that St Joseph helped out but that's a long, long story. I hope things go well for you...my wife literally dragged me here and I am a converted Villager!!!!

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Your excuse and kitchen sound awesome! We too have put everything new into our house- Kitchen, spa, theater room with large screen tv, bathrooms, windows, outside waterfall ...... ah jeeze, I can go on and on. Point is, I know it will sell when it sells. I just wish it was soon! Joseph has been "under" 2.5 weeks now....... Hey, I'm just saying.....

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Irkenhoe,

I never thanked you for the website you gave me. I have put it in "My Favorites". Thanks again! ;D

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Curry,

That sounds well and good but we have a larger mortgage than most because we have only lived here for 9 years. That, plus our realtor's commission and we have only $5,000 to $6,000 wiggle room if we want a house in TV. We were going to use that amount if we were going to negotiate price with the prospective buyer.

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Don't laugh! Our house was on the market for seven months. I suggested burying St. Joseph to my husband. We are both very good Catholics. My husband got mad at me, but we did it. Two weeks later five families looked at our house and we had two offers.
We are in the process of moving now. Don't forget to dig up St. Joseph and put him in a special place in your new home.

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Carol,

Like they say "out East"... From your lips to God's ears!!! It's been about 3 weeks now. No showings :(

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Darbyduff,
Have you said the Novena to St. Joseph? It is the faith you have in him that helps him sell the house. I have read your posts on the "Animals is Public Places" discussion and we need you in TV. Please St. Joseph help sell Darbyduff's house.

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:agree:
Ok, I know this is weird...I am not christian, but I was told about St. Joseph. After searching, we finally purchased one at a Catholic church. My husband burried it in the front yard with the help of our kitty. (I actually have a picture of it.) Anyway, we said the prayers, (novenas) (that we got online), when we burried him. We sold our house in a little over a month. There was a house down the street that was on the market for over 6 months! We told our friends who lived on the other coast of FL and they did the same thing. The sold their house in 2 weeks through Craig's List! This was all over a year ago, just as the market was slowing down. I have no clue whether or not St. Joseph helped, but we have a spot for him. here in our beautiful home in The Villages!

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Ohhhh Linda, (eyes welling)... Thank you for your sentiments. Yes, I have St Joseph's Novena on my favorites list. I have said the first one every day (they have one for every day of the week but I really love the first one. (for the last 3 days) We did have our first showing in a month and a half, yesterday but there must not have been any interest since we have not heard from our realtor. I just finished saying the Novena before coming to this site. With you and everyone else's prayers, it will happen! When it happens I will let everyone know so I can meet all of you truly wonderful people (ok, there are a few exceptions lol) in TV!!!