Do you ever feel like Jane of the Jungle?
I'm sure most of you have found yourself in a predicament like this one. You know - the times when you think you have everything for a staging job and then you realize you forgot something. My sister took this picture of me driving from the passenger side of my SUV. I could not see her!
My business partner is also my sister (the stories we could tell) we're always laughing about situations we have gotten ourselves into. On this particular day while staging a vacant, we realized we needed more trees. Trees - we need more trees - big trees! Well.....we did what any good stager would do. We ran over to our tree vendor located in Gilbert, AZ (about 20 miles away) but...we had to have those trees!
I have a large SUV but these trees were huge! In order to make them all fit, they were shoved as far forward as possible and also hanging out the back window. When you're on a deadline - safety seems to take a backseat - in this case it also took the front seat! I really had no vision out of my vehicle. My sister had to guide me back to the staging property. We made it back safely and finished on time :)
We've literally had times when our vehicle was so crammed packed, that I had to hold my sister in the car, as I opened the door to let her out. She's had sticks up her nose, area rugs on her head and has sat in the back seat covered in boxes while statues or florals were seat-belted in the front seat. Sometimes it pays to be the driver.
We have our laughs, that's for sure. Sometimes, I think we need to add Depends to our inventory. I love this profession! How many of you can relate and share your own stories.
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