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This week we're sharing the story of our first brick and mortar business, including the highlights, the low points, why we ended up closing it and if we would ever open a local business again.

Okay, so this question came from our recent survey and I just want to say

thank you to a thousand people answered our survey, which I thought was a lot. I was surprised

and I thought that was like really cool. Yeah, I didn't really have any expectations. And then like

the first day I was like, Elsie, there's over a thousand already. And I got hundreds of notes about just like little ideas.

And this episode is completely inspired by one of you.

Didn't write down the name so I don't know.

Look, we're kind of organized.

We're also not that organized.

Anyway, do you have anything before we jump in?

Well, I guess we should say just in case.

We actually hear from you a lot that most of you probably know our backstory or have been following from that time.

But just in case you're new, maybe your sister told you to listen to this.

I don't know.

Elsie and I, many, many years ago, like 15 years ago, maybe even more.

Yeah, like 20 years ago.

Oh, my God, world.

We owned a local vintage store in our hometown of Springfield, Missouri. It was on a street called Commercial Street, and it was so

cute. Older lady owned the store before us, and she sold it to Elsie. And we sort of restiled it

and kind of leaned it towards mid-century modern. That was sort of the

era that we were most interested in. We had other stuff in the store, though, too, because we had

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