So, I will admit that I have been away from this for a bit, and I can explain. This is done solely as a hobby for me, and I tend to get bored with things that are too time consuming. I want to blame it on the man inside of me, but who knows. I sit and work on blog posts for hours, and it is disheartening to see that the main views I get are from scanners/spammers from Russia. Then again, who knows! They may just really like my antique finds. Anyway, I feel that it is time to leave the blog.
I plan to maintain the Facebook account. If you have followed us on Facebook, you probably noticed that our photos are the same from the blog. The goal is to keep our Facebook page light and breezy. We want to share the locations and finds with you, but I don't want to build in too much of a personal opinion. The only issue will be when a store does not have an online presence... but that's out of our control. We will do what we can do, and that's all we... can do?
I also plan to maintain the Yelp account. If you want to know my true feelings about a location, Yelp does it. However, I must leave this disclaimer about Yelp. If you own a shop or know someone who owns a shop, don't read my reviews and get your feelings hurt. It isn't worth it. If I say something bad about your favorite shop, do your own review. Don't try to cause a fight with me because you won't get it. I will laugh, show your ignorance to friends, and move on. If you get to me too deeply, you will get a strongly worded e-mail. As I said before, I do this as a hobby. I am not making money from this in any fashion or form. I find antique stores by going out and looking for them, so I am not endorsed by anyone. (However, I might think about it if you want to help fuel my antique obsession...) I understand that opinions differ on places. There are places that I absolutely hate, but my parents and the wife love them. I try to include the wife's opinions in some of the reviews, but they are all coming from me as a person. We do not own a shop or sell antiques, so we are not competition to any of these places. So... If I talk trash on your place, have your loyal customers talk it up (not talk trash on me)!!
School is starting up again next month, so most of my time will be shot with studying. In fact, most of my summer has been shot with studying as well. However, we will still be looking for awesome stores to visit, and we will probably be spending money even though we told ourselves we needed to save more. I will try to convince the wife to help me get some awesome photographs of some of our new finds. Since the last post, I have been all over Iowa and Nebraska. Also, we went to another craft/antique festival. We have stuff to share, we are just lacking the time to share it. We will get there eventually.... I think.
As always, Happy Hunting, and please keep up with us.
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