Valentine’s Day @ The Store
Posted on January 21, 2012 - Filed Under Business, Life, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
Valentine’s day falls on a Tuesday this year – have you already planned what to do with your wife or your girlfriends? Every year I get customers asking me about valentines day gifts for wife , how is it that no one asked about Valentine’s day gifts for husband? You know if you get them [...]
Read More..>>The Sun Is Out
Posted on December 29, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Life, This Town, Weather | Leave a Comment
From inside the store – it sure doesn’t look like winter – the sun is finally out and it’s really bright here. The store had been busy - and I’m tempted to bring out my garden gnomes that I had gotten from my outlaws for Christmas and replaced the reindeer that are sitting in my [...]
Read More..>>Wedding In January
Posted on December 11, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Insurance, kids, Life, Travel, Weather | Leave a Comment
Canadians knows that January could be the worst time to travel but the spouse’s friend who lives in Toronto is having her wedding in January. They have been friends since they were in college and it’s only right that we attend her wedding since she won’t have relatives in Canada – you see she comes [...]
Read More..>>Y-12 Lottery
Posted on November 9, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Life, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
So the YMCA started their annual Y-12 Lottery again last week – and the spouse and I contemplated whether we should buy a few tickets this year. We usually buy 3 tickets a year – one for each of us – in support of the Y and been doing it for 12 years now – [...]
Read More..>>Goodbye To A Long Time Customer
Posted on November 2, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Life, management, This Town | Leave a Comment
A long time customer came in today – to bid us farewell – as he has taken a job in another province – there are not many Optician Jobs in this town – he told us. And he had to do what he had to do – as he had a young family of 4, [...]
Read More..>>Gifts For Your Wife
Posted on October 19, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Life, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
A customer came into our store today and asked for recommendations for a gift for his wife. For a moment – I was stunned and after the initial shock I thought I should tell him where to get a real gift for the wife – not that I think his wife wouldn’t like games or [...]
Read More..>>Supporting Your Local Business
Posted on September 30, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Life, This Town | Leave a Comment
The spouse only shops locally – well as much as possible – what about you? In this economy, we have to buy what is most important and when we do buy something we try to get it locally – well except for the RayBan she bought online – she had no choice because no one [...]
Read More..>>Pawn Stars
Posted on August 16, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, gadgets, Life, shopping, TV | Leave a Comment
We are not a pawn shop but after watching pawn stars – we can relate to them – and their customers. While Rick, his old man and son – Big Huss (Corey) is trying to make a living – some customers calls them a rip off – just because they can only offer them a [...]
Read More..>>12 Years In Business
Posted on August 12, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, kids, Life, shopping, This Town | 1 Comment
Our store’s anniversary is just round the corner – we headed up to L&N signs to check out on the t-shirts that I wanted to print for myself, the spouse and the kid – and maybe a few more for our regular customers. L & N signs has worked with us for many years – [...]
Read More..>>Daydream Believers
Posted on July 15, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Life, management, This Country, This Town | Leave a Comment
Small business owners and entrepreneurs are pretty much daydreamers – and wanna-be-heroes – so the spouse said. This week – we received in the post a magazine from CFIB and on its cover are three men – in sunglasses looking like heroes and that got me thinking – it’s true isn’t it – that we [...]
Read More..>>Summer Road Trips
Posted on July 11, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Life, shopping, Travel | Leave a Comment
Our extended family was down from Ontario for a visit with their RV – and they were down in Hectanooga at their lodge last weekend. This is a new RV that they had bought last year when rv financing was at its best rate – I too was tempted to get one – but because [...]
Read More..>>A Gift From A Customer
Posted on July 9, 2011 - Filed Under Business, kids, Life, shopping | Leave a Comment
My daughter – Chloe is a very lucky kid ! she gets all sorts of gift from out customers – but having said that we have lots of good customers albeit the fact that we do get a few bad ones. Today a long time customer of ours brought in some silver dollars for Chloe [...]
Read More..>>At The Back Of Our Store
Posted on June 29, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, Electronics, Health, Honesty, Life, Ranting, This Town | Leave a Comment
Many smokers from around our store loved to stand around the back of our store – because we have a sort of cover up – from rain and sun – especially the wind from the sea. So they stand at the back of our store – and smoke their lungs out. Normally, we don’t mind [...]
Read More..>>Supporting Businesses
Posted on June 25, 2011 - Filed Under Business, kids, Life, shopping | Leave a Comment
While the spouse loved to support the downtown businesses and sell other downtown businesses to our customers, friends and family – there are some stuff she needs to buy online like shoes womens must have – so she said. She said she can’t find these shoes anywhere in town – so she buys them online [...]
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