This goes against the tradition. What you are supposed to do is bury the saint in question (yes, this method works for other saints as well) upside down in the ground and, if your request is granted, you dig him up and put him on your shrine or altar. However, if your request is not granted, you keep him there until it is. It’s a form of “divine ransom”, so to speak.
A bio-degradable statue goes against the tradition and is utterly useless. I suggest you spend your money on a plaster statue and holy card with a novena rather than this kit.
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I personally just found that so fascinating.
Photo by twenty_questionsDo people really feel that they should “divine ransom” a saint? To Me, divine ransom means: “Hey you saint. I need to get my house sold, and if you don’t do it, you get to stay in the ground with worms and rotting plants. But hey, if you did sell my house to my liking, then you get to sit on a pretty shrine I made especially for you at home.” Really? Is it really how we should worship a divine being who foster fathered Jesus while he was on earth?
Our goal with this product is really to raise awareness about plastic usage and in the long run, decrease the amount of plastic statues being buried in the ground. Do you think St Joseph, a carpenter on earth, someone who worked with natural materials all day long and taught Jesus carpentry, would want to do harm to earth and our eco-systems? I would like to think not.
Photo by Lawrence OPIn additions, how would burying an eco-friendly statue becomes utterly useless? When they created tokens of worships centuries back, were there plastic readily available for mass production? No, people made statues out of natural materials and metal. So how, a St Joseph statue made out of clay, become utterly useless?
I feel that statues are just tokens of appreciation and a vehicle for you to express your faith to the divine beings that you are praying to. So why would an eco-friendly St Joseph statue become such an issue? If it only works because we pray to a certain kind of statues made from a certain kind of material, I suppose we should pray to statues made from gold and diamonds to show our appreciation?
Just my two cents here. I would love to hear your thoughts!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU again for all the 70+ comments on our EcoJoe T Shirt designs! We really appreciate you. It’s fans like you that help small boot-strap companies like EcoJoe grow~ We have also seen increases in sales on Amazon. So THANK YOU for telling all your friends about us. We really cannot do it without you.
So without further ado, here are the 5 lucky winners: (in additions to prizes listed, they also get to pick an EcoJoe T shirt once it’s printed)
Julie Tucker Legrand — Trader Joe’s $25 Gift Certificate
Robin Fenchel — 3 eco-friendly grocery bags in various styles
Brian Swichkow — 2 EcoJoe, 1 English version, 1 Canada (with French) version
Sarah Cooper — Coffee thermal cup, notebook and iphone cover from Be Good to People
Swag from Be Good To People www.BeGoodToPeople.com
Christina Galletti Howard — a premium EcoJoe gift basket
EcoJoe Premium Gift Basket. Coming Soon 2010! This particular basket is a great gift to home sellers.*
*This kit includes a shovel to bury your EcoJoe in, an EcoJoe for good karma, a hand sanitizer to clean yourself after burying EcoJoe, a pack of letterpress “We are moving” notecards for your seller to announce their new address, a pack of letterpress “Thank you” cards, and a gift certificate for an-hour Design Consultation with Staged4more. That can be used toward home selling or home decorating consults. We can do either virtual staging or virtual consulting.
Again, thanks to everyone who has participated!
PS. We want to give a special shout out to Be Good to People. Kris at Be Good to People (and Say No More Promotions) were instrumental in launching EcoJoe. We want to thank Kris and team for their continuous support and donating some great goodies for the EcoJoe contest! We have used Say No More quite a few time ourselves for our promotional stuff. They all turned out fabulous and the team is super easy to work with. We highly recommend them!
OH PPS… How can we forget to announce which T shirts to print? We will be printing #1, 2, 7, 8. As to which colors?? You will have to wait and see!
Panicked over what last minute gift to get your client? From something you can make yourself to big ticket gifts and everything in between, you’ll find it here… Den ganzen Beitrag lesen »
12.14.2009 Green Baby Guide: The Four Wackiest Green Gifts.
Although we hardly qualify for practical baby gifts (but hey, babies do love us), we are super honored and thrilled to be listed as Green Baby Guide’s 4 Wackiest Green Gifts. Not to mention EcoJoe always loves to give any already stress out new parents some much needed relieves!
Searching for a somewhat bizarre gift for your eccentric uncle or this year’s white elephant gift exchange? The following four are somewhat functional but mostly just weird presents for your holiday list.
If someone you know is struggling to sell a house this holiday season, they may need Ecojoe—the Original Eco-Friendly St. Joseph Statue Home Selling Kit. Who the heck is St. Joseph? He’s the patron saint of real estate. For years he’s been buried in the yards of those hoping to find an interested buyer. Does anyone really need an eco-friendly, biodegradable statue of a saint? Probably not, but it is a fun gag gift that may bring stressed out homeowners a laugh.
The I Am Not a Paper Cup mug is wonderfully deceptive. Crafted from a ceramic mug and a silicone lid, it looks identical to a paper cup but is far eco-friendlier.
We’re sure you’ve been asking yourself, “How can I spoil my feline friend with eco-friendly products?” The Green Organic Eco Friendly Cat Bundle of Products is a helpful kitty gift basket that includes citrus magic litter box odor eliminator and bath wipes—among other essential cat grooming items!
Our favorite eco-friendly gift is the Elephant Poo Poo Paper Notebox. Yes, this thick, high quality note paper is made from elephant dung. Recycling the feces of large mammals has never been such fun!
Have you come across any fun eco-friendly products lately? We’d love to hear about your finds!
Voice your opinions! We would love to hear from you on how you like these nifty T shirt designs our designers have come up with.
Vote Yay or Nay on individual designs on Flickr or Facebook. If you like a particular shirt, let us what colors you like!
AND… GUESS WHAT? We are giving Goodies away too! You think we are just gonna take your sage advice and run? No Way! We appreciate your comments and we want to reward you handsomely for ‘em!
For EACH comment that you post, you are automatically enter into our raffle pool. Prizes include:
*Eco-friendly reusable shopping bags
*EcoJoe
*EcoJoe button packs
*EcoJoe T shirts!
*$25 Gift certificate from Trader Joes
*A premium EcoJoe Gift Basket that includes an one-hour home design service (value at $250)
*And more!
So what are you waiting for, start commenting!
The official contest ends at midnight, December 15, 2009.
We are just so thankful for your lovely support for the past 3.5 months since we launched. YOU ARE AMAZING! To give our thanks, we are doing buy one EcoJoe and get one free! One for yourself and one for your good friend. EcoJoe is just the gift that gives on giving!
The special will run from MIDNIGHT, 11/27/2009 through 11:59pm, Monday11/30/2009. Do it NOW before you forget! It takes just FIVE minutes for you to order EcoJoe!
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We just LOVE our fans on social networks, and without you guys, we really couldn’t get the word out on EcoJoe! One of our purposes is to connect people to the green causes and spark conversations, whether it is for climate change, reduce plastic usage like us, or save the polar bears, whatever it may be. That’s what exactly our Twitter channel @ecojoe is for. We are working to bring you green and real estate news via our Twitter channel.
So if you are interested, please definitely follow us. We would love to converse and connect with you. Oh yeah, that 10% discount code is awesome too
The centuries-old practice of burying a statue of St. Joseph in the yard of a house for sale is supposed to enlist the Saint’s aid in finding a buyer. Before Joseph became the patron saint of real estate, he was Jesus’ foster father on earth and taught Jesus the trade of carpentry. He made sure that Jesus was protected and well-housed.
Today, thousands of home sellers and real estate agents continue the tradition of calling upon St. Joseph to help sell their property with successful results. This tradition is about trust, belief and sincerity, not a desire to make more money in a real estate transaction.
Our goal at EcoJoe ™ is to provide a greener alternative to existing plastic St. Joseph products on the real estate market. EcoJoe™ is made with 100% eco-friendly materials. Unlike the plastic St. Joseph products on the market, EcoJoe™ will not poison the earth if left buried. A real Saint would never do that!
Our Halloween Promotion! It’s sooo good it’s scary!.
To thank our awesome fans on Facebook and their amazing support during our first 3-month launch (can you believe it’s almost 3 months???), we are running an ONE DAY ONLY special promotion on Halloween for our Facebook Fans!
On Halloween morning 12am EST (or 9pm PST on 10/30/2009), we will send out a Facebook page update to all our fans with the special Halloween only promotional code for you to use at check-out. This code allows you to buy an 10-pack of EcoJoes for $31. That’s $3.1 per EcoJoe!
If you are already a fan, pass on this great deal to your friends!
If you typed in “St. Joseph Statues” on Google, there are tons of different St. Joseph statues available for purchase, as well as different price ranges. Well, which one to buy???
The answer is: whichever one you want. Of course we at EcoJoe are a little biased and we want you to buy an eco-friendly St Joseph Statue, since plastic products are toxic to produce and toxic to be left buried, not to mention they increase the demands on crude oil.
Please keep in mind that the tradition of burying a St. Joseph statue has to come from somewhere. During our research before we put out EcoJoe, we found there are SOOOO many different ways to bury him, not to mention there are different versions of prayers available on the internet. We’ve even read in Wall Street Journal that some mixed up on the tradition of burying St. Joseph with St. Anthony, who was known as a matchmaker, would often be held ransom, upside-down, until he found a husband for someone’s daughter.
The point is, it’s about your intention. The Chinese tradition has an idiom when it comes to praying and asking Gods to grant your wishes: “Xing cheng tze ling, ” which means “If your heart is honest, then the wish will come true.” The St. Joseph tradition is not about making loads of money off your home sale, but your sincere wish to finding the right buyer for a home you once cherished.
Photo by teresiaWith that said, if you end up buying a plastic one, please please please dig it up after your home is sold! As the plastic statues break down, they release toxins into the earth, which often end up back into our food chain through plants and animals. So please dig your plastic Joes up after you are done!
(Photo: St Joseph’s Altarpiece by Lawrence OP on Flickr)
To celebrate one of our fabulous staffer YH’s birthday, we decided to throw a 1-day sale in her honor! By entering the promo code RrcYh926 (not case sensitive), you will be able to get your EcoJoe(s) at 24% off retail price!
Hurry up, the 1-day only sale only lasts till Sunday, 9/27/2009, midnight PST.
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