Shop Small Business Saturday

"Shop Small Business Saturday" is 

THIS Saturday November 30.  

https://shopsmallneighborhoods.americanexpress.com/

Don't forget to support your local small businesses.  We may not be Wal#### or Tar### (you know, those big guys!) but we have a lot of heart.   Small businesses are independent and work hard to keep their doors open.  Thank you for being here and supporting us!

It's A Wonderful Life In Selma

We are kicking off a month long of Christmas events this coming Saturday.  Several shops in town will be participating in an 

OPEN HOUSE 

Saturday November 23rd.  

Special discounts, 

Giveaways and 

LOTS of Food

Get your list of participating shops while visiting with us.
Watch this site for more information on other upcoming Christmas events.

Thanksgiving is around the corner (or is that Christmas....sigh).  

In another week or two it will be ...

Time to bake the pies and stuff the turkey, 
Time to give thanks for all those who have touched our hearts,
Time to remember those who have gone before us,
Time to love those dear to us,
Time to heal,
Time to remember to love harder
Time to forgive faster.

Lay-A-Way for Christmas???  

You BET!!

Bring $100 worth or more of items to the front counter and for 25% down we can put it away for layaway.  

All layaway must be paid in full by December 23rd and it's yours!

Well the kids are full of their candy, costumes put away....so what's next??

I have resisted the pull of early Christmas on the grounds that I feel we should enjoy one event before being plunged into the next.  Christmas has been spotted in shops and malls for over a month already.  Customers have been asking where is our Christmas displays of goodies.

While going through a grouping of books for the shop, Cheryl found the following poem in Margaret Fishback's 1937 book ONE TO A CUSTOMER.  Even back them merchants felt the need of an early Christmas.  Hope you enjoy it!

LINES ON THOSE WHO GET THEIR CLAUS IN EARLY

List to the beating of their hearts,

The snapping of their arteries,

As in the eager retail marts

The merchants milk their Christmas trees.

Each year the season's earlier,

And I, a nature-loving dolt,

Am troubled lest the pine and fir

Shall lose their grip and start to molt

Before the Twenty-fifth is here.

For how can they survive December

When they were launched on their career

So prematurely, in November?

Eventually, I believe,

Our merchants, each an up-and-comer,

Will be promoting Christmas Eve,

In the preceding spring and summer.

Now come on folks, doesn't that say it all?  They felt the push of an early Christmas even in the 1930's!  Our Christmas push will be here in time for Thanksgiving.  That's when the town of Selma has asked their merchants to be ready by.