Reminder!

Starting this coming Monday, September 30, YesterNook will be closing on Mondays.  We hope that won't cause too much of an inconvenience to our friends and customers.

Store hours will remain the same on other days.

Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

If you were planning a trip on Monday, why don't you move it up a couple of days and stop by this weekend?  We'd love to see you!

Have you noticed?

Something strange seems to be happening in the dictionary.  Take a look and see if you can tell what we are talking about.

Vintage

·         Of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality

·         Dating from the past

·         Of the best and most characteristic

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Retro

·         Relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past

·         Fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Antique

·         Existing since or belonging to earlier times

·         Being in the style or fashion of former times

·         Made in or representative of the work of an earlier period

·         Being an antique

·         Characteristic of some items found at YesterNook

Classic

·         Serving as a standard of excellence

·         Of recognized value

·         Traditional, enduring  

·         Characterized by simple tailored lines in fashion year after year

·         Historically memorable <a classic battle>

·         Noted because of special literary or historical associations

·         Authentic, authoritative

·         Typical example

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Unique

·         Being the only one

·         Being without a like or equal

·         Distinctively characteristic

·         Unusual

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Eclectic

·         Including things taken from many different sources

·         Selecting what appears to be best in various styles

·         Composed of elements drawn from various sources

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Collectible

·         Good for a collection

·         Considered valuable by collectors

·         Suitable for being collected

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Primitive

·         Of, belonging to, or seeming to come from an earlier time

·         Very simple and basic

·         Made or done in a way that is not modern

·         Not derived

·         Original or primary

·         Closely approximating an early type

·         Characteristic of many items found at YesterNook

Fun

·         Something that is amusing or enjoyable

·         An enjoyable experience or person

·         An enjoyable or amusing time

·         The feeling of being amused or entertained

·         What provides amusement or enjoyment

·         A mood for finding or making amusement

·         A visit to YesterNook

 Something is going on here, for sure.  But we think we like it!

Where Have You Been?

You there!  Yes, you!  The one reading this blog on a tablet in a coffee shop.  And you scanning the web on your phone in the grocery store.  I see you.  You know who you are!  (As for the guy reading this on your PC at home in your underwear, I can see you too, but really wish I couldn’t.)

Where have you been?  It’s been weeks since we’ve seen you in YesterNook!  We’ve been getting worried about you!  Seriously.

If you haven’t been by in a while, now is the time to come in.  I was there over the weekend and hardly recognized the place.  New furniture!  New smalls!  New stuff all over the place!  New booths with great stuff in them!  The place looks fresher and more fun than ever.

Want proof?  Click this link and check out our Facebook page, where you’ll find pictures and updates and all kind of information. 

Then, when you’ve finished that latte or your grocery shopping, come on by.  There’s no time like the present.  (Dude in your underwear, please put on pants first.)

We’ve been missing you.

Vintaging

Last year was my twenty-fifth college reunion and my thirtieth high school reunion.  Twenty-five years?  Thirty years?  How did that happen?  I stare at those numbers in disbelief, partly because the time seems to have passed so quickly and partly because of the implications they have for me.  Does this mean I’m getting old?  Worse, does it mean I am old?  Perish the thought!

They say that age is a state of mind.  They also say it’s just a number.  Whatever else it may be, it’s a concept that is applied differently in different cases.  Think, for example, of a seventy-five year old piece of furniture.  (Maybe something you saw in YesterNook last week.)  We typically hear these kinds of responses to such an object:

“It’s a classic!”

“They don’t make ‘em like that any more!”

“It’s so solid that it probably has that many more years of use left in it.”

“Sure doesn’t look its age.”

How many of those same sentiments are typically applied to a seventy-five year old person?  Now, this is not an essay about society’s attitude towards the aging (even though we’re all aging every day).  This really isn’t the place for that sort of thing.  I won’t even get into the way that the term “antique” implies value and worth when it’s applied to objects.  Instead, I want to offer a paradigm shift of sorts.

From now on, I’m dealing with my encroaching old age as if I were a piece of furniture.  You can play along too, if you like.

I’m not old.  I’m vintage.

I’m not aging.  I’m becoming a classic example of my era.

Those aren’t age spots.  They’re patina.

Those aren’t wrinkles.  They’re distressed details.

I am not sagging and bagging in places.  I have classic lines.

And, of course, I don’t look my age.  Plus, I’m so solid I still have many more years of use left.

Come on down to YesterNook this weekend and see lots of furniture, accessories, and other collectibles that are just like me!