Mum makes £13-an-hour decorating Christmas trees for families who can’t be bothered – and it funds her own festivities
A PAIR of sisters are funding their festivities this December by decorating other people’s Christmas trees.
Veronika Gentile, 31, and Giovanna Avati, 41, charge £13 an hour to trim the trees of families who are “too busy” to do it themselves.
And what started out as a hobby has now become a lucrative side-hustle for the Melbourne-based siblings who last year earned £216 after decorating eight trees before December even began.
The women, who say they were inspired by their mum’s extravagant colour-coordinated trees, say that the business started when friends started admiring their own firs.
Speaking to the Veronika explained: “I started getting a lot of attention from friends, they loved my ornaments, and one of them even asked if I would set up their tree for them.”
After initially omitting the charge, the two mums slowly introduced a fee of $26AUS (£13).
Stay-at-home mum Veronika, who mainly relies on the clients’ own decorations rather than outsourcing, says that she uses the same approach to decorating customers’ trees as her own – but is keen to avoid tinsel.
“It's all about positioning” she said “For my own tree I place my ornament, stand back and figure out if it works in that space. I do the same thing for other people.”
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