You may have seen a strange shop assignment enter your email inbox recently. Likely you did a double-take as you read the shop details. Yes, this “shop” requires you to actually visit a specific gravesite and perform maintenance. While this may sound like a strange way to make a few extra bucks, you can rest assured that you have accomplished a good deed for the day. In addition to padding your wallet with some extra cash, you are also helping a family ensure that the final resting place of their loved one is well cared for and clean, even when the family is too far way to do it themselves.
What Are The Details? As with other kinds of shops, the details of a gravesite shop may vary from shop to shop. However, generally speaking, you will be given the name of the deceased as well as the cemetery in which to locate the gravesite. It will be your job to first locate the gravesite within that cemetery, using the resources available at the cemetery. Then, the shop requirements may ask that you ensure the gravesite is well cared for by performing small maintenance items such as pulling weeds and such.
Your job may also be to deliver flowers to the gravesite on behalf of the distant family members. You may be required to purchases these flowers yourself with the funds reimbursed to you with your shop pay, or the flowers may be shipped directly to your house on the day you are to perform the shop.
To ensure the shop has been completed, you will be asked to take several photos of the gravesite. The photos should show that you have located the correct gravesite, any flowers have been placed in front of the gravesite, and proper maintenance of the gravesite has taken place. So you will typically need a digital camera to complete a gravesite shop.
What’s In It For You? This type of shop may pay slightly better than your typical shop. And, in many cases, a cemetery may be located off the beaten path and you may be able to request travel pay if it is not already provided. So while the type of shop itself may seem like a depressing way to spend your day, it may be financially rewarding.
In addition to financial compensation, though, you may find a graveyard shop has more personal satisfaction in it than your normal shop. In most cases, the person ordering the shop is a distant family member of the deceased, someone who cared about the deceased immensely but is too far away from the gravesite to ensure regular maintenance is being performed. By performing this shop, you are giving that person the knowledge that their beloved family member is being cared for even in death.
Your first impulse on receiving this type of shop in your inbox may be to instantly pass on it. It is, after all, an unusual request. However, give the shop a second thought and you may just find that it will be both financially and personally rewarding to you.
Where is the website shopper company for gravesite visits…..michaelbu@aol.com
I have not heard about shopping grav sites but would be interested in doing that. Can you put me on the right track to finding these/ Thank you
I never heard about shopping grave site but I would like to try it
I have completed a Gravescape shop ans it was finacially and personally rewarding. I am hoping to have many more.
I would love to do this for someone. I have family in another state and I would think it expremely wonderful to have this done for me. If possible, I would like to know how to go about getting one of these shops.
decades ago I was a paid mystery shopper for Giant Food out of Landover MD. I did this while preparing to get ordained. I am now ordained as a Christian Minister, and am familiar with gravesites and cemetarys. Because of my belief in Man having an eternal Soul, I do not get “Spooked” over final resting places. I am now recently retired and only work as a “visiting pastor or speaker” so I have a lot of freedom of time to do graveside visits as would be required. Cell 703-447-7261 address: 8665
Sudley Road #340 Manassas Va. 20110
My daughter was murdered in 1995. Since then I have moved to Tennessee and her grave site is in Florida, so I can relate to the importance of this service.
I would be interested in helping out this way if anyone knows how I could in Ft Myers Florida. Thanks. friend4v@aol.com
I am interested in participating in graveyard shops. Thank you, Amber Timmons
Me too. 🙂
Thank you.
Kim
I am very interested in doing this kind of shopping. I want to make sure that things are as they should be cared for and not left to chance.Thank you for your consideration. Janice Seese
I am very interested. Would love to get involved in this.
Does anyone know if there is this need in Little Rock, Arkansas ? Would love to hear from anyone.
I would love to do this kind of shop! My mother is buried a 100 miles away and I surely can emphathize with the problem of caring for cemetary plots at a distance especially with the price of gas. Have pasted the InteliShop link given above and it sure is taking a long time to connect. Hope I can get into this special kind of shop!
How do I get started? What is the website to contact? Thanks mk
how do i get started with graveside visits
Hi, please be advised that I am very interested in the graveside visits. I have 10 years experience in the Funeral Industry including cemetery.
Thank you for considering me for these assignments.
Mary Hyman
Thank you, nice to be back.
PS: Beautiful Web Page. Love the Colors
Please tell me more.
I am very interested in doing this. Please, let me know how to get started.