Categotry Archives: Junkin’

A near miss

Whew! I had a near disaster yesterday! No, nothing to do with the picture above. I just thought I’d throw that in because I haven’t used any pictures lately. This horror story has to do with the computer, printer and my point of sale software. I’m using a DOS program by Dale Harris. It’s free and does a great job. I worked days on end putting in the over 1500 items with their stock number, brief description and price. Lena [...]

Just chillin’

Oh, how strange it feels to just relax. Do nothing. Niiiice. Saturday was busy enough. Again, a steady trickle with quite a few sales. On the entry forms for the giveaway, there was a list to check where they heard about the shop. It seemed to be pretty equal between the newspaper, the local classifieds and word of mouth. The “targeted” mailing brought in the least. Hmmmmmm. Congratulations to the winners of the three, $25 gift certificates: Jeanette White, Debbie [...]

Opening, day 2

Day two is over and done. We’ve joked about the lackluster grand opening. Customers have been steady enough, but I’ve had time to finish putting the inventory in the point of sale system and have had enough sales to start to get the hang of using it. I’m glad not to have had lots and lots of customers all at once. Couldn’t have handled that. Tomorrow, if the weather cooperates, should be the busy day. The highlight of the day [...]

We grand opened today!

Finally! I can relax a bit. Over a hundred flyers were mailed, around 200 were placed in an antique mall, a shop and at an auction, about 80 were distributed where Ricky works, there was an ad in the newspaper and in the local classifieds paper. People trickled in all day. We were never swamped – thank goodness – and Erin got to go home and lie in the pool. I got to continue working on inventory and made some [...]

Well that was weird!

It was an interesting weekend. I did make time for an antique dealer’s estate sale on Friday and an auction Saturday. Found some pretty interesting things. But first………. Erin was here and went with Lena and me to the estate sale on Friday. We went in Lena’s Yukon. The sale, which was over an hour’s drive from here, was appropriately billed as a “man’s sale”. Lots of primitive type things, boxes full of our favorite kind of junk and all [...]

It’s almost here!

The grand opening. It’s next week!! June 12, 13 and 14. Ack! I’m still pricing things, making jewelry cards and digging out more jewelry. There’s a whole wall that looks yuck, and Ricky hasn’t brought his little boy things down, yet. He also needs to hang my sign, wire some speakers, put in a phone jack and lots of odds and ends. I don’t even have a phone, yet. That’s one reason I haven’t blogged lately. I’m down there all [...]

Thank you Lord for your bountiful harvest

Who’s gonna let a little ol’ cold keep ‘em in two days in a row? Certainly not me! Last night, I took some Advil and some Sominex (so when I woke up in the middle of the night realizing how sore my throat was and started swallowing and couldn’t stop, maybe I could actually go back to sleep quickly) and got up this morning with no fever. Woohoo! I actually felt like getting out! So, I swallowed a couple of [...]

Woe is me

Woe is me! I’ve had a bit of a sore throat all week, but last night it developed into full blown……. something. Flu, bronchitis, really bad cold……….. I had a rough night last night, running a fever rocking between 100 and 101, but still got up this morning hoping I felt good enough to hit the sales. Uh, no. I went back to bed and didn’t get up until 12:00 and have been in and out of sleep ever since. [...]

Mmmmm…….candles

I don’t plan to carry any new merchandise, but needed something for a pity purchase if people come in and find nothing to their liking. Capri Blue candles are my choice. These are some of the best candles I’ve ever sniffed. I first found them at Anthropologie, did some investigation and found that no one locally carries them, so an order was made. So far, we have Aloha Orchid, Volcano, Peeled Naval Orange and Paris. I’d actually smelled the first [...]

It’s official!

It’s official! The window has been lettered. There’s no denying this is really a shop now. That line going across is a shelf that was there when I moved in. I’ve always wanted to remove it, but that was more complicated than it looked, so it’s still there. There are a lot of reflections in the window and I’m still unhappy with that old, green paint. I just can’t figure out what color to use instead. It needs to be [...]

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