Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, Teeny Tips, tagged display on February 12, 2013| 8 Comments »
I found a little something in a vintage shop (remind me to go back with my camera… they do incredible vignettes) and a great shirt from a favorite designer in a womenswear shop across the road.
Then came my moment of shame. In the next consignment shop, just past (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged christmas, resale shopkeeping on December 24, 2012|
It’s a tradition amongst consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers to…
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life on November 16, 2012| 5 Comments »
Came across some things that younger people may never know about. Thought it might be fun to think about
Things that won’t get recycled (at least in their present (past?) condition):Typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias
Phone tables. With phones on them and the White Pages and the Yellow Pages on that little shelf underneath.
A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
Flash cubes. (Actually, I even remember when flash cubes were an exciting innovation over flash bulbs.)
Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
Using a road atlas to get from A to B. Having to manually unlock a car door.
Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart.
Taking turns picking a radio station for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
What a casette player is and having to rewind the tape over and over just to hear your favorite song. The connection between a pencil and a cassette tape.
Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations.
The scream of a modem connecting.
The sound of a hand crank rolling up the car window.
“I got it… you can hang up now”
Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
Drive In movie theaters
The excitement of finding a dime in the pay phone coin return.
Remembering someone’s phone number. (Actually, I miss remembering my own. Plural.)
When you had to know how to spell.
The smoking section in the back of the plane.
Trying to peel the perforated edges off tractor-feed printer paper.
8-character filenames.
Long distance (you know, as in you don’t call someone because it’s long distance.)
Lots of these ideas came from here. And some from here. And some from other places. The phone table photo’s from here.Posted in My Favorite Things, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life on October 7, 2012| 1 Comment »
Just a Sunday evening video (more…)
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life on August 14, 2012|
Years ago, in the middle of our very busiest fall in-take season, when I was practically tagging and pricing in my sleep, (more…)
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