Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Sign o' The Times
Out of my local newspaper:
Home sellers desperate to make a deal during the slowest housing market in a decade have embraced St. Joseph as a sacred real estate agent of sorts.

Sales of St. Joseph statuettes have soared across the United States as the housing market slows. In Santa Rosa, sales of the figurines have doubled this year at Interfaith Books & Gifts, Santa Rosa's largest Christian book and gift store. The store even ran out of them for several weeks this summer. Most popular are eight-inch painted plaster figurines selling for $25 to $40. There is a taller, more elaborate wood-carved figurine selling for $120, although to bury it would require a far deeper hole in the ground.

"We ask them, 'Do you want to sell your house?' We tell them you're not performing magic here. You're only asking St. Joseph to sort of put in a good word for you," said Rodney Reyes, an Interfaith employee. "What's important is the prayer. You can't just dig up a hole and drop it in."

Many who buy statuettes also purchase the book, "St. Joseph, My Real Estate Agent." That heartens store owner Peter Kiep because the book describes Joseph's life and biblical role and includes prayers for burying the statuette and blessing a home.
I guess it's a "if you bury it, they will come" thing.
Written at 8:48 AM by Greyhair.
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