My General Store Dream

This morning I shared some graphics from old grocery store price tags & a receipt.

Here's how I'm using some of them in my home.

I've got quite a few of these metal fryer baskets, so I'm using them in my kitchen,

probably to hold fruit and candy.  The wire on each is my baskets is slightly different and I really love each of them.  It has been my dream for YEARS to own an old-fashioned general store - the kind with rows and rows of glass jars filled with candy, bolts of fabric, and old wooden floors.

I used to have a coffee table book that was all about old general stores that

are still functioning today.  I would flip through that book and dream of the sound

of a creaky, old screen door opening and closing - of course, it would have a bell attached to it,

so you'd know if you had a customer while you were in the back room.

I think my love of old stores started as a child watching Little House on the Prairie.

I loved the mercantile that Nels Olesen (and his grouchy, but still lovable wife, Harriet) ran in Walnut Grove.  I loved the long wooden counter that Nels stood behind, with the rows of staples

on the shelves behind him.  I loved watching Caroline bring her eggs in each week, so Nels could purchase them from her and sell them in his store.  I loved everything about it.

Then again, I loved nearly everything about that show.  My sister and I never

missed watching it and our personalities were quite similar to Mary and Laura - 

my sister was the smart, well-behaved one...I was a tomboy who would rather be

climbing a tree than sitting in school.

True old-fashioned general stores are rapidly disappearing from our land, so those that

still remain and are able to stay afloat financially are a real treasure.

Though my dream of owning a store like this may never come true,

it does my heart good to display items like these price tags, and

my stack of 1940's receipts in my kitchen.  I DO have the old wooden floor though!

Blessings,

Angie