Giving Thanks that it wasn’t Black Friday

We’d planned not opening the shop on Thanksgiving weekend, but come Saturday the family had departed, I was exhausted, and so I thought I might as well nap in the shop as at home. So I did – open the shop, I mean, not nap. No chance of a nap – the weekend actually turned out to be our busiest in the fall.
We sold a 1730 map of America to a young man who had just graduated and was decorating his first apartment – now, isn’t that a hopeful sign for the future of the antiques business, let’s hope there are many more like him. We met a number of our customers who stopped for a chat and see what was new. One of them bought a piece of delft, and another was all over a hefty piece that we’d be delighted to move to a good home. There were the usual number of walk-bys who had no idea what they were looking at, and a small number we’d never met before who were at least interested.
A pleasant and productive three hours on Sat and Sun afternoons – who knew that Black Friday wasn’t the only sort of shopping on TG weekend!