Easter and Costco!

Happy Easter and Passover!

I love this time of year, I actually think that of all the holidays I celebrate Easter is my favorite. My grandmother always made us new clothes...she was a great seamstress. We had massive amounts of food and of course all kinds of candy and lots of colored eggs. I always loved flowers and in the spring the flowers are at their prettiest.

When I lived in Ohio, Easter was a signal that spring had come, it just seemed like every year exciting things were just waiting to happen. Living here in Naples it seems strange to me because spring has a different meaning to me....it signals a time that my snowbird friends are or will soon be heading back up north for the summer. Easter in Naples signals that the real estate season will be winding down, just when I am ready to kick it up a notch!

The real estate market has been brisk in the Naples area. A report was recently in the Naples Daily News that sales were up 50% over the same time last year. Yeah!! It has been so rewarding to see and hear more people be more positive about everything in their life.

I keep saying I am not going to participate in "the depressed economy"; I am going to remain upbeat and create my own economy! That may seem foolish to some but I just don't care to be focusing on all the doom and gloom. I read recently that "if you want to change your life and how you feel then change your thoughts....so I just choose to be positive!!

So did having Costco in my title throw you? Well about 2 weeks ago I went to lunch with a bunch of ladies from Pelican Marsh (the community I live in) and at my table they were all talking about going to Costco. I was the only one at the table that didn't have a Costco card! Actually, I just didn't have the desire to go to Costco...I don't like to shop and I certainly don't like to go to the grocery store. My husband has been doing 99% of the grocery shopping for years! But I was intrigued by my friends excitement and I had to check out what the fuss was all about.

Well ladies if you are reading this I am now a proud Costco card-carrying member. I was in the store for 3 hours today!! I couldn't believe all the employees hawking all kinds of food and I was just in awe of how excited they were...it was like being at the fair and being enticed to get the cotton candy. I laugh now, but when I first got there and heard people shouting out I thought there was a fight somewhere.

So what does Easter, Costco and real estate have in common?? Well not much EXCEPT this might just be the time of the year for you to step out of the box and try something new. Go somewhere new, read something new, eat something new, live somewhere new, open your mind to new thoughts and just revel in this wonderful awesome time of the year that God has given us!