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02:54:30 am on December 8, 2006 | # |
A friend of mine recently sold his house. Or I should perhaps say that Saint Joseph sold his house for him. That’s right, it seems that burying a small plastic statue of Jesus’ foster dad in the yard will cause your house to sell – faster.
No one seems to know exactly how this superstition started (and let’s be clear, it *is* a superstition), but it doesn’t surprise me that 2 million of the little guys are sold each year, many of them in convenient Home Sale Kits. There are differing opinions as to how to go about producing this little miracle, but the overall idea is that you bury him in the yard, upside down, facing either toward or away from your house. Then, when your house is sold, you dig him up and put him in a “place of honor” in your new house.
You dig him up, that is, if you can remember where he was buried! My anonymous friend has now made two illicit trips back to his old house. Armed with a shovel and grim determination, he has been digging an ever-expanding hole in what is now someone else’s yard in a desperate attempt at trying to find the little bugger.
Perhaps we should go bury a statue St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of Lost Items. Couldn’t hurt.
