Hallmark store

I remember my mom always going to Hallmark, you could do all your shopping for a gift at this store. They have very cute items and most everything I like there. But times have changed I think. It is sad to me that Hallmark's are going out of business. It reminds me of simpler and kinder times. Maybe not realistically, but to me. I was innocent and sheltered, and my parents weren't rich, but I was fortunate to live in a wonderful house in a rich neighborhood. However, I thought everyone lived that way, and when I got out on my own in my early 20s, I quickly found out it isn't that way.

And I remember doing my own Christmas shopping at Hallmark in the 80s/90s, and also looking for the wooden plaques with a picture on the front with poem/words. I have kept alot of these things, but I have a hard time getting rid of things. So these days I would rather just take a picture of things like this that I like.

 

 

I don't go to the mall that often. I took my son and his friend there over the weekend and while they went their way I went mine. I like a lot of the things in the windows, but it doesn't mean I have to have them. I like the cute animals from Build-A-Bear, which reminds me of when I took my kids there when they were little. I have bittersweet memories of that. Other windows I just liked, I don't know why. But it made me think a lot about the 80s and 90s, my mom always would shop at Sears or JC Penney's or Joslins. I went into Macy's and it reminded me alot of those stores from that era. I miss those times.

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