If this were real landscaping, I'd seriously question the overall design and arbitrary placement of these plants. It looks like it's in the dirt driveway. Where are you going to park your car now?
But, it's not real. I'm thinking the realtor recently purchased Photoshop and decided to show off his/her newfound graphic "skills." What a hot mess. Just because you know how to copy/paste a fern doesn't mean you SHOULD copy and paste a fern. FIVE TIMES. The mulch is huge - not in proportion with the copy/pasted plants. The lilies have been stretched and flattened. Oh, hey, let's stick in a bird bath. And are we supposed to believe the crudely drawn black line is garden edging? You couldn't copy/paste in some paving stones or something? Someone needs to revoke this realtor's Photoshop privileges.
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I've looked at hundreds of houses online and I've seen some beautifully staged homes. But every once in a while I come across photos where the least bit of effort could have improved a room before a photo was taken. For example, in this photo of a cozy living room in a small home, below. I have two suggestions for the realtor. 1. Remove the two blankets draped over the chairs. 2. Put the cat in another room while taking the picture! There are other things I'd recommend - like removing one of the chairs, the tv tray and the table/printer to open the room up and make it look more spacious. But the cat! This just looks like a family picture of Mr. Whiskers instead of a real estate photo. We love you, Mr. Whiskers, but get out of the shot! I work full time. It's my day job and when I'm not working, like everyone else, I must tend to everyday matters - laundry, grocery shopping, paying bills, making meals and so on.
My second job is writing. I squeeze that in whenever I can and that time is certainly at a premium. My third job is making sure other people do their jobs. No, I don't go up to people working their positions and supervise. But I do have to make sure that people aren't doing their jobs incorrectly in a way that will affect me or my family. This past Sunday we went to the grocery store and I monitored the items being scanned by the cashier. I caught her ringing up two bags of softener salt as an incorrect brand, which would have cost us $1.35 more per bag. She rang up a white onion as jicama, which costs .09 cents more. And after we unloaded our groceries into the car, we realized she rang up one pineapple as 11. ELEVEN. At $2.98 a pineapple. I had to go back into the store, spend 15 minutes waiting at guest services and then I had to show the rep behind the desk how to scan the barcode on the receipt on my phone to process my credit. The only payment I receive for this third job is saving us all the money we'd have lost on that single grocery trip. If I hadn't done this third job, we would have lost $32.50. I shudder to think how much money we've lost over the years we didn't take time to monitor our purchases as they were being scanned. Or when we didn't do a quick count of our change to make sure it was correct. People make mistakes, it's true. I know, I've made plenty of my own. But it's disheartening to know that these mistakes sometimes cost others money and time. |
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