February 26, 2025 • 42 mins
Welcome to Season 2! We start off the new season by discussing what we found and discovered during Market in Atlanta for Christmas, Fall, and More!
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jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (00:00):
You, can you hear me very well?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (00:01):
I can hear you fine.
Dwayne sounds like he's in abowl.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (00:06):
Don't.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (00:07):
your microwave up.
Well, your microwave.
Your microphone.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (00:14):
Well, season two, and we still don't
know how to work this Can youbelieve it's the second season
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (01:23):
what?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (01:24):
of our podcast?
We're finally,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (01:26):
Woo!
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (01:26):
Oh, I thought you meant the United
States.
God.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (01:32):
the podcast, no, I'm just, I'm so
excited that we're starting itagain today because I've had so
many people reach out and belike, when are you doing this
again?
Are you doing this again?
And much to Dwayne's disbeliefand frustration, I'll say yes.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (01:46):
No, it's the live sale I get two
shits about.
This I'm okay with because Idon't have to do anything.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (01:52):
You just get to talk and that's what
you're good at.
That's what you're good at.
Well, so today we're going totalk about market.
Um, we just, well, I'll say wejust, but we didn't, we, we got
back from market where we boughtChristmas and fall and some
everyday.
And so I know people want tohear about that.
but also today I want us tobring to the table two things,
(02:14):
one thing that we're excited forand one thing they were over and
we can do that later.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (02:19):
Oh,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (02:20):
Okay.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (02:21):
So we'll do that at the end.
But, we went to Atlanta inJanuary to buy four, fall,
Christmas, and then some everyday.
And I'm interested to hear whatyou all think about how that
went and how the market was.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (02:35):
I think it went well.
Yeah.
Well,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (02:40):
a smooth market, I think.
Unlike some past years.
Um,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093 (02:49):
because you were medicated and you
weren't all slim to every fiveminutes I was buying something.
You are!
jeremy-host249_1_02-20 (02:57):
improved you.
I think that's what I heardsomebody say.
They're like, no, we're not new.
We're still the same person.
We're improved.
I'm like, all
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (03:03):
So, so my question is to her, are
you medicated?
Are you in love or you justdon't care at this point?
Or a little of all of it, like,uh, you know, I can't do
anything.
The hero, I can't do anything tothose fools.
I'll just give up at this point,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (03:19):
Just whatever.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (03:21):
know, I do think that the the market.
Was um, they went reallysmoothly.
I do agree with that.
I was really surprised with howbusy it was because I felt like
it was incredibly busy comparedto, I mean, you all remember
when we went in, was it 2010?
It was, you know, it was whenthe housing crisis, you know,
when that was exploding and wewent and we were actually
(03:43):
wondering if we were there atthe right time because there was
nobody there.
We were walking down the, aroundthe aisles and before that it
was always hopping and there wasalways people there.
Um, and then it's, I don't thinkit ever fully recovered from
that, or at least it never feltthe same after that it's always
felt different, the, the, thepeople, the number of people
that were there.
(04:03):
And of course we know we lost alot of, um, smaller mom and pop
stops.
when that happened.
But like since then I feel likeit had been building and then
you had COVID and then that, youknow, it's a whole other, a
whole other thing.
But I feel like it, there was alot of people there in January
in Atlanta.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (04:19):
there and I think it's, you know, we
also changed when we went, wealways like, Oh, we have to go
on Thursday and stay at theweekend, which was always a hot
fucking mess.
now, you know, we go on Mondaytechnically before it opens, but
it's open, you know, and we're,we're gone by Thursday or
Friday.
And then the influx of craziesare coming in for the weekend
(04:40):
because, Some people only haveone or two days that they can
devote to it.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (04:45):
Yeah,
stuart-guest966_1_02- (04:45):
fortunate we can devote four full days to
actually doing it.
So I think that kind of skewsour perception a little bit of
how many people are there, but
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (04:57):
Mm hmm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (04:57):
I thought it was busy even on a
Monday and a
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (05:00):
no, Monday was nuts.
I couldn't believe obviouslythere were people there.
Because we've been there.
before on Mondays where we'rethe only person in the showroom.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (05:08):
hmm.
Yeah.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (05:14):
Well, and I asked a lot of our
vendors, How did market goafterwards?
And everybody was like, Oh, youknow, Dallas was good.
Dallas was good.
Atlanta was nuts.
So I don't know what it wasabout, if it was just the
accessibility or what it was toAtlanta.
But, um, it definitely was thebigger one.
Um, Well, and I'll
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (05:31):
well, and I will say
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (05:32):
say
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (05:33):
are, um, this isn't relating to
Christmas at this moment, but,um, being on the backend office
side of this, you know, usuallywhen you say, oh, you know, ship
it in March, ship it inFebruary, damn company we
ordered from for ship now stuff,it is here, it
jeremy-host249_1_02-20 (05:51):
shifted.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (05:53):
That ain't no spacing it out.
It's like, oh, we'll get it inApril.
Huh
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (05:56):
No,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (05:57):
So come and buy it
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (05:58):
Well, I think, you know, I think that
had the, feeling at market whenwe were there in January, it was
everybody was excited aboutpossibilities, but then there
was also this feeling of like,who the hell knows?
And, you know, of course it allhas to do about the tariffs.
Um, but everyone's like, Idon't, you know, we don't know
what's going to happen.
What's actually going to getapplied, where, how it's going
(06:19):
to affect.
And there was kind of like asense of an easiness, but like,
you know, this is what we do andthis is how we have to roll, um,
and to figure it out.
And I wonder if that's one ofthe reasons why people, you
know, did get stuff out asquickly as they did shipping it,
trying to get around, if theycan invoice it and get Before
the tariffs took place,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (06:37):
right because it's sitting in their
warehouse They're gonna collectthe money now because if it
comes in with the tariff, theydon't know how to think I'll
sell it.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (06:44):
you know, so, you know, and I'm But
yeah, so I mean it's and theyare we've heard from every
vendor how they're adjusting anddoing it Also, I hate to tell
you people but it's happening.
Uh, one of the things that I wasreally surprised with when we
(07:05):
went to market was, you know, Ofcourse, I love Christmas.
Um, you know, that's, it's funto decorate for, but honestly,
my favorite season to decorateis fall.
I just think it's, I love thecolors.
I love the textures, love allthat kind of stuff.
Um, and I felt like there was alot of new Christmas
introductions, but there weren'ta lot of fall.
(07:25):
There was a lot of Halloween.
A lot of people had a lot ofHalloween, but I felt fall, even
though there was beautiful falland there was some new stuff
that was there, it seems likeit's, I don't want to say it's
like getting forgotten, butbecause of the holiday of
Halloween, I feel like it'sgetting overshadowed.
Um, and a lot of people puttingeffort into that and not
necessarily quote unquote fall.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (07:45):
Yeah, there definitely wasn't any
standouts.
Uh, it was all classic andthere's nothing wrong with it,
but like, you're always lookingfor new pumpkins and you're
looking for new shapes and newcolors.
Um, it just wasn't there, right?
The classics are there, butnothing that went, Oh, that's
different or unexpected, or isreally.
Larger scale leaves, or I don'tknow what it's looking for.
(08:07):
That's why you're looking right.
That's why you're shopping is tobe inspired.
And I didn't walk away with whatwe didn't find fall.
We did, but I didn't, like yousay, we didn't walk away with,
well, that was some fun newstuff that just didn't happen.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (08:21):
Yeah, it really, it didn't matter
which showroom we were in aswe're like strolling through the
mass hysteria of Christmas andthen mentioning, okay, we need
to look at fall.
And then they would take us overto like one or two little
sections.
I'm like, okay, here you are.
And I'm like, Oh, this is it.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_0936 (08:35):
That's all you got.
Okay.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (08:36):
Like it falls, falls Big for me.
I mean, I, just, I love it and Iknow it's an important season
for our store.
Um,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (08:42):
Yeah.
We
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (08:43):
I mean, We do a lot of fall Um,
and
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (08:46):
Cause we do it.
Well,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (08:48):
well, maybe that's, the thing.
Maybe we need to help otherpeople do it well.
I don't, I mean, it was, it wasjust surprising, I guess.
And I feel like that, that's.
been a continuing, uh, thing.
And of course, you know, wedon't do a ton of Halloween
because Christmas has to startso early for us that it kind of,
you know,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (09:04):
And we don't worship the devil.
No,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (09:11):
on how
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (09:12):
you may not, agree, but you may
think that we did over here atthis house.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (09:19):
well, that's just pagan holiday.
And I was like, well, you knowwhat?
Lighten up panty Annie.
Okay.
I'm not out there worshiping thedevil and witch dancing.
I'm just trying to give mylittle baby some chocolate
candy.
So I won't have to buy it.
Right.
That's all it's about.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (09:34):
When we were young, we had a minister
at my parents church, and momhad this great idea.
We had a youth group that wasgrowing, and they were trying to
do something for, like, thekids, and it got to Halloween,
and I'll never forget, we wentto Walmart.
Of course, back then that wasthe only place where you could
shop to buy anything for uscause we didn't have anything in
our town.
Um, and she bought some,Halloween decorations cause
(09:55):
she's going to have a Halloweenparty.
Well, honey, some of the churchshut that down.
That's the devil's holiday.
I was like, Lord have mercy.
Like, I just want somechocolate.
Give me a gummy worm,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (10:07):
It's the same thing that, uh, My
nail.
Grown son who's the size of a,uh, what a big redwood right?
Linebacker.
Uh, he, he loved Halloween.
We actually even did a, um, togive our, uh, old employer
Corman's a shout out.
They used to have a rentaldepartment and we had a lot of
Halloween stuff and they let meborrow it.
(10:29):
And we had a, uh, a Halloweenparty.
We turned our garage into, um,uh, a Halloween themed party in
April.
Uh, and the kids come and itwas, I still remember that.
And this was like.
20
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (10:39):
April?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (10:41):
That's
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_0936 (10:41):
that's when he's,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (10:42):
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah.
But we had a Halloween party.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (10:46):
forgot why they did it in April, but it
is Ian's birthday.
Oh,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (10:54):
And, uh, but I remember I was sitting
in a meeting.
We're talking about, um, Um, itwas gonna be homecoming.
Homecoming.
Anybody, everybody knows whathomecoming is?
Like a, like a
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (11:04):
the church.
or At the school?
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (11:06):
At the church.
Yeah, a church.
A homecoming at a church.
And one of the dates was gonnabe fall right in the middle of
when Halloween was.
And all I said, I said, well, ifyou have homecoming during that
week, Halloween's Uh, duringthat, and it may have an impact.
Well, law have mercy.
The man got in all of their,well, I know where I'll be
(11:27):
during Halloween.
If we have a homecoming, I'll besitting right here in the pew,
right?
And I'm like, well, That's okaybecause your children are grown
and you, you know, this is notanything important to you.
And I said, okay, well, I knowwhere I'll be.
I'll be out trick or treating.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (11:44):
I wish you would've went dressed
up.
I wish you would've went tochurch.
All dressed up,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (11:48):
they ended up not doing it, but it
was the idea of, you wonder whypeople, um, get fed up with the
holier than thou's at thechurch.
It's because of that attitude,right?
It's like, we're all welcoming.
We're all struggling.
We're all sitting in the samepew and you ain't really, you
actually, I'll judge you.
You were actually worse than mewhen you got judgy of me.
Bye.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (12:10):
Thank God the mic's attached.
Tree would've thrown the micdown.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (12:15):
So, you know, I, you know, and I
probably think this is how, Idon't know, I don't know how we
get on this tangent, but here wego.
I used to see churches do a lotof trunker treating, right?
And I haven't seen, I, maybethey still do it, but I like, I
live in Paris and I noticed thatthey didn't, you know, do it
this year.
At least I didn't notice theydid.
I don't know if people got up inthe air and said, don't, don't
(12:36):
do that.
And did they do it?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (12:37):
still do.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (12:38):
Okay.
Well, I thought it was a, Ithink that was to me, um, Maybe
it did start off as a paganholiday celebrating the devil,
but that's not how I use it andhow I celebrate, right?
That's just not it.
And so, uh, you can, you cantwist anything you want to be
ugly and dark and evil, but youalso can take anything and turn
(13:00):
it into the celebration and joyfield.
And that's what Halloween isfor.
It was for us.
It is for us.
And it's like, I know forJeremy, where you live out in
that great little subdivision,that's how you connect with your
neighbors and you meet littlekids and you, you, instead of it
being something ugly, it's acelebration of your community.
And that's how it should be seenis as opposed to turning it
(13:23):
dark, truthfully.
Preach it, brother.
Preach it.
Okay
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (13:28):
season two started with, him going off
onto tangent.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (13:30):
it is.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (13:31):
a, with, I said we don't, we don't
really buy Halloween.
We don't sell, uh, we don't sellHalloween, but we sure do love
it.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (13:37):
Yeah.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (13:37):
talk about it all day
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (13:38):
We could talk about
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (13:39):
about it all row.
Okay, so I think we did a littledifferent approach when we
bought Christmas this year inthat, the themes and the
collections that we did lastChristmas were hugely
successful, that we did very,very well with them.
And, uh, I pitched the idea andI think we're all on the same
page.
(13:59):
I was like, well, if the wheelwasn't broken, why don't we just
kind of repeat that in a way?
And so a lot of the ribbons thatwe had.
In 2024, you're going to seeagain in 2025, but.
A whole lot more of it, a wholelot more depth of it.
In other words, we sold out tooquick on plaids or whatever's we
(14:20):
had.
And, um, instead of having morebreadth, we got more depth to
it.
And I think that's one of thethings that we honed in on.
It's like, I remember we werein, uh, D.
Stevens and we'll talk aboutthat in a minute, but I was with
Stuart and it was like, this isthe idea I've got as opposed to
buying, uh, uh, 24 rolls, let'sbuy 72 rolls or whatever it was.
And you, you heard me and Iexplained to the reasoning and I
(14:44):
said, I'd rather have sixchoices as opposed to 18
choices, those six choices.
I know, I believe in, and we godeep and you heard me and I
think that's how we twisted it.
Is that kind of how you rememberit?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (14:57):
Well, yeah, I mean Yes, we we got rid
of the slow sellers and
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (15:03):
Mm hmm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (15:04):
the ones were like, oh shit It's
november 1st.
We're out.
So I
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (15:09):
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (15:14):
Mm-hmm
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (15:16):
more styles to offer.
Like we still have some of ourregular staples, but then I
think we found some really goodfuller lush price point driven
greeneries as
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (15:31):
Mm-hmm Mm-hmm
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (15:32):
you know, that's a good point that
you, you said actually thegreenery part, uh, the greenery
that you're alluding to, therewere some really great prices
this year on that.
Don't you think that, I thinkthere's some good deals on that.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (15:45):
Yeah.
what's funny is I have my littlelist here of like things that I
tried to think ahead to writedown anything I wanted to bring
up and greenery was the top one.
Um, just because I do think whenwe walked away from it, we were
very excited.
with a lot of the options thatwe had at the price points that
were, uh, there.
And it's, it, It is, um, it's sofunny.
(16:07):
you go to market, you go tothese places where you know,
like you should go, you've gotyour, classic companies you go
to.
get, classic things.
And um, Sometimes it's, uh, itcan be discouraging to feel like
you have to go in like theseother little, smaller little
showrooms.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (16:21):
go
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (16:22):
like for
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (16:22):
Oh no, it's not.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (16:24):
well, no, hold on.
I'm just, here's one.
Here's, here's what I'm tryingto get to.
Here's What?
okay, here's the, here's thebetter way to say it.
When You go to market, you'vegot companies that you know,
you're going to go to and youknow that you're going to drop
some money at, right?
And so you can go into thosecompanies, drop the money, get
really good items, get a greatprice points.
And then, uh, You go through allof those and then what happens
(16:44):
is, is then you end up goinginto these other showrooms where
you walk in and you have to gothrough the whole thing and you
might spend a thousand dollarsand it's It's mentally, I think,
exhausting, um, because it feelslike you've put in a lot of
effort and that there wasn't abig payoff.
But, the reason why I'm bringingthis up is because, you know,
remember we stopped by and sawour friend Candy.
(17:05):
And, um, that paid off in anamazing way of finding some, uh,
incredible values, incredibledeals, and some good stuff that
I'm really excited about to getthat for the, uh, for holidays
because it's, you know, andshe's so sweet.
She's so kind.
Um, and we just hadn't stoppedat a showroom in a long time
(17:26):
because there's really only onething that we bought from her.
And so we just order it and notstop in the showroom.
And this time we actually juststopped by and we went, Oh,
that's it.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (17:39):
One of the snarky things that came
out many years ago from Stuartwas, yeah, You know, you can
find a used piece of chewing gumin any showroom.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (17:54):
That's the
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (17:54):
And I was like, well, I was like, I
like some used gum, so I'm goingto start digging.
So, um, I will say I've gottenolder and now this schlepping
around the showrooms.
I don't know if I want to findthe used gum or not at this
point, but it has, it isimportant and what you just
said, like that little find theused piece of gum with candy.
(18:15):
Who is the most lovely person inthe world.
But she's, she's our supplierwith our, um, our baskets that
we make.
We're the, our willow basketsthat we sell, our door baskets.
Thank you.
They're exclusive to house,literally.
She makes those for us.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (18:30):
I do want to go back and put a pin
in the, uh, Dwayne finding the,the chewing gum.
What people don't understandabout going to market is that it
is, um, 11 and a half million,at least at the last count I
saw, square feet of just stuffon every square corner, every
square inch, on every wall.
Above your head down at yourfeet.
I mean, it's just constantlyeverywhere.
(18:52):
And so you kind of have to belike, I don't know, like a robot
or like a machine, like theTerminator.
I'm not really sure to like zeroin and find the, um, the things
that are like really great pricepoints.
I mean, you just have, and soyou have to look through
thousands of tags a minute, orit really feels, that's what it
feels like.
I don't know.
I always kind of like that.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (19:12):
you have to, every item you have to
calculate.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (19:16):
Mm hmm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (19:17):
okay, it costs this much, this much
freight.
This is what we're going to getit in.
Can we sell it for that?
Okay, sure we can.
Let's get it.
How many are we going to get?
24 or 700
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (19:28):
And it's exhausted.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (19:29):
single
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (19:30):
It's, it is, that's, that's the
hardest thing about Mark isgoing in and trying to like, to
delve through the stuff, butDwayne has the uncanny, uncanny
ability, or he used to, I mean,I still think he could do it, to
walk in, to walk in, and, LikeI, we went, we stopped at a
floral vendor that we, I talkedabout possibly starting to carry
(19:52):
because they carry some reallyincredibly realistic stamps, but
the price point's really high.
Um, and I knew we would get somekind of discount.
So we're trying to figure itout.
And so walk in, he picks up thefirst ornament.
And it would have been like, Idon't know, five bucks in our
store, which would have beengreat, you know, and so he was
like, Oh, this is great.
Okay.
Let's keep looking.
And he keeps looking.
And then everything else in the,in the entire showroom was way
(20:13):
too high.
He found the first thing thefirst time it never fails.
So we
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (20:19):
how pretty it is if you can't afford
it, right?
We've always said that.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (20:22):
Yeah.
Well, and then that, that bringsup.
For me, ribbon, because youalready, you know, you already
talked about, um, like when wewent to, to Donna's and we're
going through, we got a lot of,we have a lot of our classic,
beautiful ribbons, but we alsogot a lot of additional, like,
um, the company mall, if youwill, uh, ribbons to go with it,
(20:46):
to make incredible bows.
and so I'm really excited aboutall of those.
Things like little details withbejeweled and whatever but that
was one of the things where itdoesn't seem like it matters How
much some of this ribbon costpeople allegedly are gonna buy
it.
I don't know who's paying 200 abolt of ribbon I don't know I
don't know who's doing it, butsomebody is cuz it's out there
everywhere.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (21:06):
in that's, you know, some of it, a
few bolts can reach 80 or 90.
I'm like, Oh, Lord.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (21:13):
Oh lord, right
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (21:15):
And that one person buys them all
because they're very specific totheir interior.
But it's like, I can't imagineselling 200 bolts at an 80
retail.
You know, I mean,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (21:26):
No,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (21:27):
this horrible.
I mean, I'm glad we sold thesix.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (21:29):
18 and 24 and,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (21:33):
and lower
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (21:34):
I think
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (21:34):
Yeah, yeah,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (21:36):
495 and less is our average for
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (21:39):
and there's some
stuart-guest966_1_02-2 (21:40):
consider designer ribbon.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (21:43):
Yeah, I just you know, but it's a lot
a lot of it was out there a lotof pretty stuff a lot of
bejeweled
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (21:49):
yeah.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (21:50):
My Liberace died and went to heaven
in a in a ribbon factory.
I'm telling you
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (21:55):
and you kept picking it up this year
and Stuart kept putting it back,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (21:58):
well Yeah,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (22:02):
it's Jeremy kind of beating up on
Stuart, but this year it wasStuart and me looking at each
other going, what is he doing?
Is he like, has he found hislike super glittery inner gay
this year?
I mean, I don't know what he wasdoing.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (22:15):
no, okay so last year we had
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (22:17):
him no
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (22:17):
him say, um,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (22:21):
Look, I'm gonna get my sparkle one way
or another.
No, you know, the thing was wehad some, um, Accent ribbons,
like the thinner, like inch anda half inch ribbons that we had
Early in the season last year,they had a little bit of
sparkle.
Um, they had a beautiful littledetail to them that you could
put in the center of a bow andit would change the entire bow,
(22:42):
uh, just by adding that on thereand all of that sold
immediately.
And so I thought, well, thoseare a great way to change up the
classics, right?
To add that in, to make, give ita whole different look, to add a
little bit of sparkle.
Um, And so that was really whatI, I zoned in on because I
always felt like, all right, wegot, we got the basics.
We got the, the, the stuff, theclassics to, to make what we
(23:02):
need to do, but how do we makeit different?
And just by having those littlepieces to mix in, for me, gives
it night and day.
So that's why I kept going backto it.
And Lord, I hope we got some ofit because I sure have told
people about it.
I think so, I remember it beingcut, so.
Um, but yeah, there's a lot.
Uh, who
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (23:24):
know if it's coming or not, but um,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (23:26):
knows?
But yeah.
I
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (23:35):
I, then I go like six months later,
it's like, where's that ribbon?
And Stuart's like, I don't knowwhat you're talking about.
I'm like, I know he kills stuffoff.
I, he, I know he kills stuff offI've ordered, but I can't
remember it.
And I go, oh, okay, well,nevermind.
Or he, or I think he lies to me,people.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (23:51):
I don't
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (23:52):
Let me, let me, let me, no, no, no,
no, no.
Let me tell you what I think.
Now I can't, I'm not going tocall Stuart a liar.
But I'm like, you know, I, I, Iordered certain such picture
frames and I, I really lovethose and he'll, Oh, you know,
those came in and every one ofthem were damaged and I sent
them back.
(24:12):
I'm like, or, you know, I wantedthat art and I love it.
Oh, you know, they discontinuedthat collection.
And I'm like, well, howconvenient is that?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (24:23):
Now, 80 percent of the time that's
true.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (24:29):
Oh, God.
I just keep saying, well, Iguess he's keeping us from going
broke.
I don't know what he's doing,but okay.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (24:36):
You're welcome.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (24:46):
the hell were they thinking?
Um, and I'm sure like it had,like, you know, we went and they
had, um, uh, well, okay.
So we have to preface this withwhere we're at.
It's a much more traditionalkind of undertone to it.
Right.
Right.
So, Really crazy colors aren'tgoing to be found here early on,
(25:11):
right?
Like they may be adapted later,right?
Once it kind of becomes kind ofjust people just being used to
see it But I don't rememberthere being anything crazy That
we saw aside from a bunch ofcoastal which I understand
because there's a lot of peoplelive in coastal There's a lot of
(25:32):
coastal Christmas.
I remember but there was a lotof color
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (25:36):
Well, that's what stands out in my
head.
It was just a lot of color.
Um, no, there wasn't any, youknow, like in the past we'd go
and there's.
Like gnomes on everything.
Every showroom has stupid gnomesand every showroom has mushrooms
and every showroom has whatever.
And you're like, I don't wantthat crap.
Right.
I didn't see that kind of as areal consistent this year.
(25:59):
It was pretty classic.
And which is, I think maybethat's one of the reasons it was
smooth for us is because that'swhat we do.
We don't do real funky and thecompanies that put it out there
did some really beautifulclassic stuff this
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (26:12):
hmm.
Yeah, I mean we've went beforeand they have like hot pink and
purple and just like the two ofthose together Or just all
amethyst and I'm like, I get it.
It's beautiful.
I can't sell this.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (26:24):
I don't, I don't think,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (26:25):
We did see a lot of, um, Oh, what's
that animal?
A bison?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (26:33):
Oh the Highland Cows
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (26:35):
The Highland cows.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (26:36):
Yeah, I don't I don't know
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (26:37):
go to Bucky's and get it.
We will not have it here.
And That is fine.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (26:42):
I mean, I think they're adorable.
I think they're really cute.
I don't get it.
And specifically what Stuart'stalking about is like, you know,
it's the big cows that have likethe big furry fringe and the big
horns and they're, you know,they're, they're really cute,
but you know, when it comes tomind, you think you see, like,
you've seen like probably atBucky's, um, like pictures, like
artwork, well, we saw figures.
(27:04):
wrapped in C7s.
We saw, uh, water globes.
We, I mean everything, they wereeverywhere and I don't get it.
That, that was, uh, I don't.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (27:16):
well the, the, the funny thing I walk
away with, and this sounds likea dig and it's really not, is,
um, Jeremy won't remember this,but Stuart will because he's of
age.
Uh, it felt like 1983 a littlebit.
That there was a lot of mauveycolors and a lot of kind of
wedge witty kind of colonialblues.
(27:36):
And guess what?
We, we did some of that and I, Idon't, I don't not apologize for
that.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (27:41):
sell it where we are, you know, it'll
fit in percent of the homes andChevy Chase that haven't been
remodeled yet
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (27:51):
It, but it felt updated.
Like the tones or it was, itwas, it was, it was there, but
it felt updated and current.
And I kept looking at what we'rebuying.
I was like, Lord have mercy.
I'm, I'm going back 40 years inthe, in the hole.
But it's like, I'm getting it.
Let's get it.
Let's get it.
But there really were somepretty, in particular blue
ornaments, lots of pretty bluestuff this year.
(28:12):
Pretty, pretty blue rib.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So if you're a blue person, you,you're got it, got it made this
year, at least with us.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (28:19):
Okay, I did confirm that I do have
some of the Highland Cowfigures, uh, in my photo roll
from What the Hell at Market.
So I will, um, link those downin the show notes below so
people can see what I'm talkingabout.
Like, I don't understand.
Uh
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (28:34):
buy one.
We are not getting
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (28:35):
Ur, No, it's too late.
You can't order them now.
ha ha ha ha.
Yeah, I know, and they wereeverywhere.
And I didn't notice it at first,and Stuart, you pointed that
out, and I'm like God, they'reeverywhere.
I'm like, Oh, you're right.
They were everywhere we went.
I don't know.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (28:55):
Oh, well.
Okay.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (28:57):
Okay.
Were there any, home decortrends now?
I'm trying to think, uh, ifthere was anything like new or
earth shattering that we saw andI don't remember.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (29:04):
that was, that was the hard part.
I thought Christmas is easy,trying to find home decor and
artwork and stuff like that.
It was like, yikes.
I thought that was the
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (29:14):
Yeah.
Artwork artwork is always hard,but I will say home decor.
It's, it's, um, the, the thingabout.
Home decor it feels like and I'mthinking about a showroom that
we went in that we hadn't beenin a while And at the front of
it, it was very Modern organic,uh, tan, black white cream.
(29:37):
Okay.
And then you walked around andthen you walked into the back
and then it was ceramic balloonanimals and, uh, tea courses and
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (29:48):
Yeah.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20- (29:49):
acrylic candlesticks.
And my point is it went from,they had everything.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (29:54):
it
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (29:54):
seemed like, um.
And I understand that companieswant to have, uh, a little bit
of this, a little bit of that,because they want to try to
appeal to, they want to havesomething for everybody.
But I do feel that when it cameto home accessories, people
didn't have a clue, and so theywere just throwing everything.
That's what it felt like.
It felt like they were justthrowing spaghetti at the wall.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (30:11):
that when it came to home
accessories, people didn't havea clue until they were just told
they were, they don't like it,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (30:21):
Yeah.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (30:22):
want to get involved.
Offering to figure out whatwould fit
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (30:29):
That was a kind way to say it.
Junks.
What are you saying?
So again, that's where, that'swhere you found the, uh, used
pieces of gum,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (30:36):
there were a lot of used pieces again.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (30:38):
of gum in there
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (30:38):
Yeah.
Yeah, there was.
There was.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (30:40):
was
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (30:41):
I think that they, um, and like a
lot of them, they do cater to alot of different stores, a lot
of different, uh, customers, alot of different needs.
Right.
And so like a lot of stuff thatthey had there wouldn't have
pertained to our customer in ourstore, but I guess they would
have pertained to somebody.
I don't, I don't know what thatstore would have been.
It would have been a, I can'teven say younger audience
because the younger audiencecouldn't afford it.
Is that one of those closeoutplaces?
stuart-guest966_1_02 (31:06):
Gordman's.
I don't, I don't even know ifthey're still open anymore.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (31:09):
I think that's the place I got
really excited because I lovesocks.
Um, and I don't like old socks,and although all I have right
now are old, all old socks.
And there was a point where, um,my then boyfriend Jeremy, um,
Says you've got to do somethingabout these socks.
There are so many differentkinds, you know, we're gonna do
something and I was like, allright, fine So we'll just get
rid of them.
(31:29):
So we donated all of my oldsocks And we went to Gordman's
where I could get some cheap andI bought like 48 pair or
something You know washed themonce and they disintegrated
Okay, won't do that again.
All right, you know whateverOkay, so yeah home accessories.
(31:50):
That was I do feel it was alittle bit all over the place Or
they went really super modern.
Um, I'm thinking of, um,
stuart-guest966_1_02- (31:58):
companies we didn't even buy from because
they went Completely modern.
Um,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (32:06):
love to have those elements mixed
into it, but
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (32:08):
we can't go, you know, spend
thousands of dollars on modernbecause we just won't
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (32:14):
yeah.
Yeah.
So that was the one thing withhome accessories.
I thought that it just felt likeit was really, everybody was all
over the place, not a hundredpercent committal.
Um, and then when they did, itwent really, Well, and I'm going
to say it this, uh, and I don'tmean it in a hateful way.
Um, cause God knows they sellit, but it went really home
(32:34):
goods.
There were, you'd walk in andyou'd see a lot of things that
you'd look, they had the looklike, okay, I'm gonna say this
is a home goods.
This is going to be at homegoods.
And I know that sounds great,but we, you do have to think
that when you go buy things, uh,if you, especially if you have a
store.
I don't want anything looks likeI could end up there.
So, all right, well, let's startwrapping up this week and let's
(32:55):
share something that we'reexcited about and something that
we're over.
Who would like to go first?
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:03):
I don't have anything yet, so I
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (33:04):
Okay.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:05):
this for about two seconds.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (33:06):
Well then I'll go.
Cause I thought I'll try to giveYou a little bit of heads up.
I know it wasn't much.
Um, I am.
Okay.
So of course, you know, I cannever limit myself.
Um, and so I'm over two things.
I'm over the snow.
Okay.
Because we just keep getting itin the cold weather and I have a
fence that needs to get repairedand it can get repaired until
it's warm enough to get fixed.
Um, and then the other thing isthat I'm over is that I now have
(33:27):
vertigo.
I don't even think I've told youall about this yet.
Uh, And it only happens when I'mlaying horizontally in the bed.
Um, when I wake up in the
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:38):
it do, like you're kind of just
spinning?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (33:40):
Uh, kind of, yeah.
It's like I'm watching a halfsecond loop of the room.
And I found out when I went tothe doctor yesterday.
And, you know, they were like,Oh, yeah, this is far to go.
And my mother had some issues.
And my grandfather
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:52):
why you weren't sleeping?
Is because of that?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (33:54):
Mm mm.
No.
No.
No, no.
I just
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (33:57):
when you wake up,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (33:58):
Just when I wake up and I roll over
and then like if I open my eyes,it's like a like a half a second
It's like I'm looking watching,a loop a half second loop and it
just keeps going back and goingback But what I found out was
it's because your eyes areliterally going back and forth
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (34:12):
Oh.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (34:14):
well,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (34:14):
what?
I'm learning is that the body isa weird and mysterious thing,
right?
We all know that And how itworks is just fascinating and it
has to do with your ears andcrystals in your ears and all
that I guess and so yeah, so nowI have vertigo at age 44 So
Merry Christmas.
But the thing I'm excited aboutis that we're starting this
(34:35):
again.
And our live sales are startingagain.
I feel like we're getting backin.
I've just, I know what peopleare gonna be really thrilled and
really happy.
And I'm, I'm excited to be ableto start doing these again and
connecting with people.
Cause I know that it did connectwith others.
So that makes me very happy.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (34:49):
There you go.
What you got first, Mr.
Hurt?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (34:54):
Things that I'm over I shouldn't put on
a public podcast.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_0936 (35:01):
Clear.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (35:02):
we'll just let that set.
Right there.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (35:07):
I hear that.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (35:11):
Um, things, I guess something that
I'm excited for?
Um, work related.
I think our, um, store, amazing.
I think our
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (35:28):
Yes.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (35:29):
year, even for spring, usually spring
is one of my like, you know,whatever.
I think it's really good.
And then looking ahead at whatwe have coming, I'm like, Hmm,
okay.
Cause it's going to be, it's ourstore, but it's different.
So
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (35:46):
I
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (35:47):
I'm glad you know
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (35:47):
I was walking around.
I, I was walking around theother day.
It's funny you said that.
It felt curated and collectedand different price points and
different textures.
And no, I, I, I'm right therewith you.
That I'm not, it's not a plug.
It's just the truth.
It's like, oh, I think we got,we got some good stuff right
now.
We, we got it right for, uh, forthis, this season.
(36:09):
Yeah.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (36:09):
So, yeah.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (36:10):
Um, the thing that gives me joy This
is always people oriented forme, that I've been working on
some projects and I've beenlucky to be surrounded by some
really great trim carpenters andgood people, and anybody that is
(36:33):
a contractor or works with, hasever hired a contractor or
hired, anybody in the trades.
It can be a difficult pathbecause many are not
particularly reliable and likethe painter will look at you and
they'll just not show up thenext day even though they are
coming or the plumber will blowyou off or whatever it is,
(36:54):
right?
You know, all three of us haveto corral people to get them
there to your house.
And that's, that's our job andyou're looking at us.
And so you hope people won't lieto you, but they kind of do.
And I've been lucky to find somereally great people.
And the one that stands out is ayoung gentleman who's a trim
carpenter.
(37:14):
And he did some stuff at myhouse.
And before I ever use anybody,I'm always going to be the
Guinea pig.
And he would say, I'm going tobe at your house.
Uh, and this is when I'm coming.
He would text me, 30 minutes,I've just got in the car, I'll
be there in 30 minutes.
And I was like, this doesn'thappen.
And so, The other thing is, hewould be coming, this is his
(37:37):
side gig, and he'd be coming tomy house after work.
And I remember, um, used to dohouses for Christmas all the
time.
And I may have come to yourhouse directly after work and
not have dinner, right?
And, you know, nobody wouldthink about it, you know.
You would assume somebody'seating before they come in, but
I just didn't have time.
So, I've always done this, like,if anybody's coming, I know
they're coming, I make sure wehave, And so I said to the, the,
(38:00):
the, the gentleman, he's under30 years old.
So he's not older, much olderthan one of my kids.
And I made sure he was fedright.
And because he was so kind andso conscious and did everything
he said, but also wanted to feedhim and take care of him.
Well, I then had a conversationwith him and I said, because I
know his dream is to go own hisown construction company and
(38:23):
he's learning to speak Spanish,right?
If you look at him, he's just abubba, but he's learning to
speak Spanish and that impressedme so much.
And the long story is, though,his sweet wife sent us a peanut
butter pie with a little note onit.
Because I had had a conversationtwo days before that and I said,
When you have enough money, whenyou're comfortable, you're one
(38:45):
of those people that can go outon your own and you can control
your own destiny.
You will be better working foryourself because you, you got
it.
You can figure this out.
And he was grateful for mesaying that.
So, The pie was delivered fromthe gentleman who was going to
work in our house that night.
And he said, my wife told me Icouldn't read the card until you
(39:06):
had to read it first.
And so I opened it up and readit and it said, um, I won't say,
I'm going to call him George.
Thank you for always feeding myGeorge and making him feel
comfortable at your dinnertable.
How sweet was that?
But also, but also thank you,uh, for saying what you said and
encourage him to go do it, do iton his own.
(39:28):
I've been saying it for threeyears.
Maybe he'll listen to you now.
Thanks.
Tammy, right?
Right.
And I hope, you know, a lot oftimes you shouldn't assert
yourself in people's livesbecause you never know the
damage you can do, but I hopethis one's not damaged.
I hope this is good that hehears me and he hears his wife,
brother, you can go do that.
(39:48):
And so that's a positivity,right?
So let's now turn it to thenegative.
If you, the opposite, if youhave, um, a contractor you're
working with and somethingdoesn't go correctly, you, you
don't blame your.
Employees, you don't blame theperson that hired you, a.
k.
a.
(40:08):
threw me under the bus, to myclient.
And, right, and then you alsodon't, uh, throw the other
employee under the bus.
And so I got, you know, thistext with every excuse in the
world of why this happened.
And, I never responded otherthan I said, I hear you.
I need you to be here and I needyou to be here in an hour
(40:31):
because it's supposed to be inthere anyway.
And we did.
And I said, look, you threweverybody under the bus,
including me, which was really abad mistake.
I said, I'm sorry.
You own the company, andeverything that went wrong has
related to you.
Why don't you just look at meand own it, and let's just move
on.
(40:51):
I said, until you do, this isnot going to go well for you.
So the negative is, if you getit wrong, and somebody's saying
to you, I got it wrong, own it,right?
And a lot of people don't havethat power.
You just need to say, I got itwrong, let me fix it.
And that's my beef with people.
Own it, brother.
Just own it.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (41:08):
Well, Lord.
I didn't know
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (41:10):
Mm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (41:11):
were going.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (41:15):
I was along for the ride, I don't
know if you could see myeyebrows just get going higher
and higher.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (41:19):
fixed all my contractor issues.
I just married my and he doeswhat I want.
Haha.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (41:25):
good boy.
He's a good, good boy.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (41:28):
Oh goodness.
Well let's wrap this episode up,guys, thanks so much for
listening, we'll come back.
Every week with a new episode,uh, don't forget we have a
hotline that you can call ortext if you have an opinion of
anything we said at 1 859 4121572.
You can leave a voicemail anduh, we won't play it on air, but
we may read it for peoplebecause everybody likes to
(41:48):
complain a little bit.
Also, don't forget if youhaven't downloaded our mobile
shopping app, House Floral, Makesure you go and download that.
The link is down in the shownotes below.
Our live sales are startingagain on Wednesday evenings and
we're so excited to show the newstuff.
Um, and not, yeah, I thinkthat's good to go.
How's that sound?
All right.
We'll see you all next week.
Thanks guys.
(42:08):
Bye.
You, can you hear me very well?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (00:01):
I can hear you fine.
Dwayne sounds like he's in abowl.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (00:06):
Don't.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (00:07):
your microwave up.
Well, your microwave.
Your microphone.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (00:14):
Well, season two, and we still don't
know how to work this Can youbelieve it's the second season
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (01:23):
what?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (01:24):
of our podcast?
We're finally,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (01:26):
Woo!
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (01:26):
Oh, I thought you meant the United
States.
God.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (01:32):
the podcast, no, I'm just, I'm so
excited that we're starting itagain today because I've had so
many people reach out and belike, when are you doing this
again?
Are you doing this again?
And much to Dwayne's disbeliefand frustration, I'll say yes.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (01:46):
No, it's the live sale I get two
shits about.
This I'm okay with because Idon't have to do anything.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (01:52):
You just get to talk and that's what
you're good at.
That's what you're good at.
Well, so today we're going totalk about market.
Um, we just, well, I'll say wejust, but we didn't, we, we got
back from market where we boughtChristmas and fall and some
everyday.
And so I know people want tohear about that.
but also today I want us tobring to the table two things,
(02:14):
one thing that we're excited forand one thing they were over and
we can do that later.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (02:19):
Oh,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (02:20):
Okay.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (02:21):
So we'll do that at the end.
But, we went to Atlanta inJanuary to buy four, fall,
Christmas, and then some everyday.
And I'm interested to hear whatyou all think about how that
went and how the market was.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (02:35):
I think it went well.
Yeah.
Well,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (02:40):
a smooth market, I think.
Unlike some past years.
Um,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093 (02:49):
because you were medicated and you
weren't all slim to every fiveminutes I was buying something.
You are!
jeremy-host249_1_02-20 (02:57):
improved you.
I think that's what I heardsomebody say.
They're like, no, we're not new.
We're still the same person.
We're improved.
I'm like, all
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (03:03):
So, so my question is to her, are
you medicated?
Are you in love or you justdon't care at this point?
Or a little of all of it, like,uh, you know, I can't do
anything.
The hero, I can't do anything tothose fools.
I'll just give up at this point,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (03:19):
Just whatever.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (03:21):
know, I do think that the the market.
Was um, they went reallysmoothly.
I do agree with that.
I was really surprised with howbusy it was because I felt like
it was incredibly busy comparedto, I mean, you all remember
when we went in, was it 2010?
It was, you know, it was whenthe housing crisis, you know,
when that was exploding and wewent and we were actually
(03:43):
wondering if we were there atthe right time because there was
nobody there.
We were walking down the, aroundthe aisles and before that it
was always hopping and there wasalways people there.
Um, and then it's, I don't thinkit ever fully recovered from
that, or at least it never feltthe same after that it's always
felt different, the, the, thepeople, the number of people
that were there.
(04:03):
And of course we know we lost alot of, um, smaller mom and pop
stops.
when that happened.
But like since then I feel likeit had been building and then
you had COVID and then that, youknow, it's a whole other, a
whole other thing.
But I feel like it, there was alot of people there in January
in Atlanta.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (04:19):
there and I think it's, you know, we
also changed when we went, wealways like, Oh, we have to go
on Thursday and stay at theweekend, which was always a hot
fucking mess.
now, you know, we go on Mondaytechnically before it opens, but
it's open, you know, and we're,we're gone by Thursday or
Friday.
And then the influx of craziesare coming in for the weekend
(04:40):
because, Some people only haveone or two days that they can
devote to it.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (04:45):
Yeah,
stuart-guest966_1_02- (04:45):
fortunate we can devote four full days to
actually doing it.
So I think that kind of skewsour perception a little bit of
how many people are there, but
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (04:57):
Mm hmm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (04:57):
I thought it was busy even on a
Monday and a
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (05:00):
no, Monday was nuts.
I couldn't believe obviouslythere were people there.
Because we've been there.
before on Mondays where we'rethe only person in the showroom.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (05:08):
hmm.
Yeah.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (05:14):
Well, and I asked a lot of our
vendors, How did market goafterwards?
And everybody was like, Oh, youknow, Dallas was good.
Dallas was good.
Atlanta was nuts.
So I don't know what it wasabout, if it was just the
accessibility or what it was toAtlanta.
But, um, it definitely was thebigger one.
Um, Well, and I'll
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (05:31):
well, and I will say
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (05:32):
say
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (05:33):
are, um, this isn't relating to
Christmas at this moment, but,um, being on the backend office
side of this, you know, usuallywhen you say, oh, you know, ship
it in March, ship it inFebruary, damn company we
ordered from for ship now stuff,it is here, it
jeremy-host249_1_02-20 (05:51):
shifted.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (05:53):
That ain't no spacing it out.
It's like, oh, we'll get it inApril.
Huh
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (05:56):
No,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (05:57):
So come and buy it
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (05:58):
Well, I think, you know, I think that
had the, feeling at market whenwe were there in January, it was
everybody was excited aboutpossibilities, but then there
was also this feeling of like,who the hell knows?
And, you know, of course it allhas to do about the tariffs.
Um, but everyone's like, Idon't, you know, we don't know
what's going to happen.
What's actually going to getapplied, where, how it's going
(06:19):
to affect.
And there was kind of like asense of an easiness, but like,
you know, this is what we do andthis is how we have to roll, um,
and to figure it out.
And I wonder if that's one ofthe reasons why people, you
know, did get stuff out asquickly as they did shipping it,
trying to get around, if theycan invoice it and get Before
the tariffs took place,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (06:37):
right because it's sitting in their
warehouse They're gonna collectthe money now because if it
comes in with the tariff, theydon't know how to think I'll
sell it.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (06:44):
you know, so, you know, and I'm But
yeah, so I mean it's and theyare we've heard from every
vendor how they're adjusting anddoing it Also, I hate to tell
you people but it's happening.
Uh, one of the things that I wasreally surprised with when we
(07:05):
went to market was, you know, Ofcourse, I love Christmas.
Um, you know, that's, it's funto decorate for, but honestly,
my favorite season to decorateis fall.
I just think it's, I love thecolors.
I love the textures, love allthat kind of stuff.
Um, and I felt like there was alot of new Christmas
introductions, but there weren'ta lot of fall.
(07:25):
There was a lot of Halloween.
A lot of people had a lot ofHalloween, but I felt fall, even
though there was beautiful falland there was some new stuff
that was there, it seems likeit's, I don't want to say it's
like getting forgotten, butbecause of the holiday of
Halloween, I feel like it'sgetting overshadowed.
Um, and a lot of people puttingeffort into that and not
necessarily quote unquote fall.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (07:45):
Yeah, there definitely wasn't any
standouts.
Uh, it was all classic andthere's nothing wrong with it,
but like, you're always lookingfor new pumpkins and you're
looking for new shapes and newcolors.
Um, it just wasn't there, right?
The classics are there, butnothing that went, Oh, that's
different or unexpected, or isreally.
Larger scale leaves, or I don'tknow what it's looking for.
(08:07):
That's why you're looking right.
That's why you're shopping is tobe inspired.
And I didn't walk away with whatwe didn't find fall.
We did, but I didn't, like yousay, we didn't walk away with,
well, that was some fun newstuff that just didn't happen.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (08:21):
Yeah, it really, it didn't matter
which showroom we were in aswe're like strolling through the
mass hysteria of Christmas andthen mentioning, okay, we need
to look at fall.
And then they would take us overto like one or two little
sections.
I'm like, okay, here you are.
And I'm like, Oh, this is it.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_0936 (08:35):
That's all you got.
Okay.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (08:36):
Like it falls, falls Big for me.
I mean, I, just, I love it and Iknow it's an important season
for our store.
Um,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (08:42):
Yeah.
We
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (08:43):
I mean, We do a lot of fall Um,
and
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (08:46):
Cause we do it.
Well,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (08:48):
well, maybe that's, the thing.
Maybe we need to help otherpeople do it well.
I don't, I mean, it was, it wasjust surprising, I guess.
And I feel like that, that's.
been a continuing, uh, thing.
And of course, you know, wedon't do a ton of Halloween
because Christmas has to startso early for us that it kind of,
you know,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (09:04):
And we don't worship the devil.
No,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (09:11):
on how
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (09:12):
you may not, agree, but you may
think that we did over here atthis house.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (09:19):
well, that's just pagan holiday.
And I was like, well, you knowwhat?
Lighten up panty Annie.
Okay.
I'm not out there worshiping thedevil and witch dancing.
I'm just trying to give mylittle baby some chocolate
candy.
So I won't have to buy it.
Right.
That's all it's about.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (09:34):
When we were young, we had a minister
at my parents church, and momhad this great idea.
We had a youth group that wasgrowing, and they were trying to
do something for, like, thekids, and it got to Halloween,
and I'll never forget, we wentto Walmart.
Of course, back then that wasthe only place where you could
shop to buy anything for uscause we didn't have anything in
our town.
Um, and she bought some,Halloween decorations cause
(09:55):
she's going to have a Halloweenparty.
Well, honey, some of the churchshut that down.
That's the devil's holiday.
I was like, Lord have mercy.
Like, I just want somechocolate.
Give me a gummy worm,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (10:07):
It's the same thing that, uh, My
nail.
Grown son who's the size of a,uh, what a big redwood right?
Linebacker.
Uh, he, he loved Halloween.
We actually even did a, um, togive our, uh, old employer
Corman's a shout out.
They used to have a rentaldepartment and we had a lot of
Halloween stuff and they let meborrow it.
(10:29):
And we had a, uh, a Halloweenparty.
We turned our garage into, um,uh, a Halloween themed party in
April.
Uh, and the kids come and itwas, I still remember that.
And this was like.
20
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (10:39):
April?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (10:41):
That's
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_0936 (10:41):
that's when he's,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (10:42):
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah.
But we had a Halloween party.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (10:46):
forgot why they did it in April, but it
is Ian's birthday.
Oh,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (10:54):
And, uh, but I remember I was sitting
in a meeting.
We're talking about, um, Um, itwas gonna be homecoming.
Homecoming.
Anybody, everybody knows whathomecoming is?
Like a, like a
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (11:04):
the church.
or At the school?
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (11:06):
At the church.
Yeah, a church.
A homecoming at a church.
And one of the dates was gonnabe fall right in the middle of
when Halloween was.
And all I said, I said, well, ifyou have homecoming during that
week, Halloween's Uh, duringthat, and it may have an impact.
Well, law have mercy.
The man got in all of their,well, I know where I'll be
(11:27):
during Halloween.
If we have a homecoming, I'll besitting right here in the pew,
right?
And I'm like, well, That's okaybecause your children are grown
and you, you know, this is notanything important to you.
And I said, okay, well, I knowwhere I'll be.
I'll be out trick or treating.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (11:44):
I wish you would've went dressed
up.
I wish you would've went tochurch.
All dressed up,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (11:48):
they ended up not doing it, but it
was the idea of, you wonder whypeople, um, get fed up with the
holier than thou's at thechurch.
It's because of that attitude,right?
It's like, we're all welcoming.
We're all struggling.
We're all sitting in the samepew and you ain't really, you
actually, I'll judge you.
You were actually worse than mewhen you got judgy of me.
Bye.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (12:10):
Thank God the mic's attached.
Tree would've thrown the micdown.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (12:15):
So, you know, I, you know, and I
probably think this is how, Idon't know, I don't know how we
get on this tangent, but here wego.
I used to see churches do a lotof trunker treating, right?
And I haven't seen, I, maybethey still do it, but I like, I
live in Paris and I noticed thatthey didn't, you know, do it
this year.
At least I didn't notice theydid.
I don't know if people got up inthe air and said, don't, don't
(12:36):
do that.
And did they do it?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (12:37):
still do.
Yeah.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (12:38):
Okay.
Well, I thought it was a, Ithink that was to me, um, Maybe
it did start off as a paganholiday celebrating the devil,
but that's not how I use it andhow I celebrate, right?
That's just not it.
And so, uh, you can, you cantwist anything you want to be
ugly and dark and evil, but youalso can take anything and turn
(13:00):
it into the celebration and joyfield.
And that's what Halloween isfor.
It was for us.
It is for us.
And it's like, I know forJeremy, where you live out in
that great little subdivision,that's how you connect with your
neighbors and you meet littlekids and you, you, instead of it
being something ugly, it's acelebration of your community.
And that's how it should be seenis as opposed to turning it
(13:23):
dark, truthfully.
Preach it, brother.
Preach it.
Okay
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (13:28):
season two started with, him going off
onto tangent.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (13:30):
it is.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (13:31):
a, with, I said we don't, we don't
really buy Halloween.
We don't sell, uh, we don't sellHalloween, but we sure do love
it.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (13:37):
Yeah.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (13:37):
talk about it all day
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (13:38):
We could talk about
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (13:39):
about it all row.
Okay, so I think we did a littledifferent approach when we
bought Christmas this year inthat, the themes and the
collections that we did lastChristmas were hugely
successful, that we did very,very well with them.
And, uh, I pitched the idea andI think we're all on the same
page.
(13:59):
I was like, well, if the wheelwasn't broken, why don't we just
kind of repeat that in a way?
And so a lot of the ribbons thatwe had.
In 2024, you're going to seeagain in 2025, but.
A whole lot more of it, a wholelot more depth of it.
In other words, we sold out tooquick on plaids or whatever's we
(14:20):
had.
And, um, instead of having morebreadth, we got more depth to
it.
And I think that's one of thethings that we honed in on.
It's like, I remember we werein, uh, D.
Stevens and we'll talk aboutthat in a minute, but I was with
Stuart and it was like, this isthe idea I've got as opposed to
buying, uh, uh, 24 rolls, let'sbuy 72 rolls or whatever it was.
And you, you heard me and Iexplained to the reasoning and I
(14:44):
said, I'd rather have sixchoices as opposed to 18
choices, those six choices.
I know, I believe in, and we godeep and you heard me and I
think that's how we twisted it.
Is that kind of how you rememberit?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (14:57):
Well, yeah, I mean Yes, we we got rid
of the slow sellers and
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (15:03):
Mm hmm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (15:04):
the ones were like, oh shit It's
november 1st.
We're out.
So I
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (15:09):
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (15:14):
Mm-hmm
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (15:16):
more styles to offer.
Like we still have some of ourregular staples, but then I
think we found some really goodfuller lush price point driven
greeneries as
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (15:31):
Mm-hmm Mm-hmm
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (15:32):
you know, that's a good point that
you, you said actually thegreenery part, uh, the greenery
that you're alluding to, therewere some really great prices
this year on that.
Don't you think that, I thinkthere's some good deals on that.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (15:45):
Yeah.
what's funny is I have my littlelist here of like things that I
tried to think ahead to writedown anything I wanted to bring
up and greenery was the top one.
Um, just because I do think whenwe walked away from it, we were
very excited.
with a lot of the options thatwe had at the price points that
were, uh, there.
And it's, it, It is, um, it's sofunny.
(16:07):
you go to market, you go tothese places where you know,
like you should go, you've gotyour, classic companies you go
to.
get, classic things.
And um, Sometimes it's, uh, itcan be discouraging to feel like
you have to go in like theseother little, smaller little
showrooms.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (16:21):
go
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (16:22):
like for
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (16:22):
Oh no, it's not.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (16:24):
well, no, hold on.
I'm just, here's one.
Here's, here's what I'm tryingto get to.
Here's What?
okay, here's the, here's thebetter way to say it.
When You go to market, you'vegot companies that you know,
you're going to go to and youknow that you're going to drop
some money at, right?
And so you can go into thosecompanies, drop the money, get
really good items, get a greatprice points.
And then, uh, You go through allof those and then what happens
(16:44):
is, is then you end up goinginto these other showrooms where
you walk in and you have to gothrough the whole thing and you
might spend a thousand dollarsand it's It's mentally, I think,
exhausting, um, because it feelslike you've put in a lot of
effort and that there wasn't abig payoff.
But, the reason why I'm bringingthis up is because, you know,
remember we stopped by and sawour friend Candy.
(17:05):
And, um, that paid off in anamazing way of finding some, uh,
incredible values, incredibledeals, and some good stuff that
I'm really excited about to getthat for the, uh, for holidays
because it's, you know, andshe's so sweet.
She's so kind.
Um, and we just hadn't stoppedat a showroom in a long time
(17:26):
because there's really only onething that we bought from her.
And so we just order it and notstop in the showroom.
And this time we actually juststopped by and we went, Oh,
that's it.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (17:39):
One of the snarky things that came
out many years ago from Stuartwas, yeah, You know, you can
find a used piece of chewing gumin any showroom.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (17:54):
That's the
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (17:54):
And I was like, well, I was like, I
like some used gum, so I'm goingto start digging.
So, um, I will say I've gottenolder and now this schlepping
around the showrooms.
I don't know if I want to findthe used gum or not at this
point, but it has, it isimportant and what you just
said, like that little find theused piece of gum with candy.
(18:15):
Who is the most lovely person inthe world.
But she's, she's our supplierwith our, um, our baskets that
we make.
We're the, our willow basketsthat we sell, our door baskets.
Thank you.
They're exclusive to house,literally.
She makes those for us.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (18:30):
I do want to go back and put a pin
in the, uh, Dwayne finding the,the chewing gum.
What people don't understandabout going to market is that it
is, um, 11 and a half million,at least at the last count I
saw, square feet of just stuffon every square corner, every
square inch, on every wall.
Above your head down at yourfeet.
I mean, it's just constantlyeverywhere.
(18:52):
And so you kind of have to belike, I don't know, like a robot
or like a machine, like theTerminator.
I'm not really sure to like zeroin and find the, um, the things
that are like really great pricepoints.
I mean, you just have, and soyou have to look through
thousands of tags a minute, orit really feels, that's what it
feels like.
I don't know.
I always kind of like that.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (19:12):
you have to, every item you have to
calculate.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (19:16):
Mm hmm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (19:17):
okay, it costs this much, this much
freight.
This is what we're going to getit in.
Can we sell it for that?
Okay, sure we can.
Let's get it.
How many are we going to get?
24 or 700
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (19:28):
And it's exhausted.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (19:29):
single
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (19:30):
It's, it is, that's, that's the
hardest thing about Mark isgoing in and trying to like, to
delve through the stuff, butDwayne has the uncanny, uncanny
ability, or he used to, I mean,I still think he could do it, to
walk in, to walk in, and, LikeI, we went, we stopped at a
floral vendor that we, I talkedabout possibly starting to carry
(19:52):
because they carry some reallyincredibly realistic stamps, but
the price point's really high.
Um, and I knew we would get somekind of discount.
So we're trying to figure itout.
And so walk in, he picks up thefirst ornament.
And it would have been like, Idon't know, five bucks in our
store, which would have beengreat, you know, and so he was
like, Oh, this is great.
Okay.
Let's keep looking.
And he keeps looking.
And then everything else in the,in the entire showroom was way
(20:13):
too high.
He found the first thing thefirst time it never fails.
So we
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (20:19):
how pretty it is if you can't afford
it, right?
We've always said that.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (20:22):
Yeah.
Well, and then that, that bringsup.
For me, ribbon, because youalready, you know, you already
talked about, um, like when wewent to, to Donna's and we're
going through, we got a lot of,we have a lot of our classic,
beautiful ribbons, but we alsogot a lot of additional, like,
um, the company mall, if youwill, uh, ribbons to go with it,
(20:46):
to make incredible bows.
and so I'm really excited aboutall of those.
Things like little details withbejeweled and whatever but that
was one of the things where itdoesn't seem like it matters How
much some of this ribbon costpeople allegedly are gonna buy
it.
I don't know who's paying 200 abolt of ribbon I don't know I
don't know who's doing it, butsomebody is cuz it's out there
everywhere.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (21:06):
in that's, you know, some of it, a
few bolts can reach 80 or 90.
I'm like, Oh, Lord.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (21:13):
Oh lord, right
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (21:15):
And that one person buys them all
because they're very specific totheir interior.
But it's like, I can't imagineselling 200 bolts at an 80
retail.
You know, I mean,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (21:26):
No,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (21:27):
this horrible.
I mean, I'm glad we sold thesix.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (21:29):
18 and 24 and,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (21:33):
and lower
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (21:34):
I think
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (21:34):
Yeah, yeah,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (21:36):
495 and less is our average for
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (21:39):
and there's some
stuart-guest966_1_02-2 (21:40):
consider designer ribbon.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (21:43):
Yeah, I just you know, but it's a lot
a lot of it was out there a lotof pretty stuff a lot of
bejeweled
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (21:49):
yeah.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (21:50):
My Liberace died and went to heaven
in a in a ribbon factory.
I'm telling you
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (21:55):
and you kept picking it up this year
and Stuart kept putting it back,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (21:58):
well Yeah,
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (22:02):
it's Jeremy kind of beating up on
Stuart, but this year it wasStuart and me looking at each
other going, what is he doing?
Is he like, has he found hislike super glittery inner gay
this year?
I mean, I don't know what he wasdoing.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (22:15):
no, okay so last year we had
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (22:17):
him no
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (22:17):
him say, um,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (22:21):
Look, I'm gonna get my sparkle one way
or another.
No, you know, the thing was wehad some, um, Accent ribbons,
like the thinner, like inch anda half inch ribbons that we had
Early in the season last year,they had a little bit of
sparkle.
Um, they had a beautiful littledetail to them that you could
put in the center of a bow andit would change the entire bow,
(22:42):
uh, just by adding that on thereand all of that sold
immediately.
And so I thought, well, thoseare a great way to change up the
classics, right?
To add that in, to make, give ita whole different look, to add a
little bit of sparkle.
Um, And so that was really whatI, I zoned in on because I
always felt like, all right, wegot, we got the basics.
We got the, the, the stuff, theclassics to, to make what we
(23:02):
need to do, but how do we makeit different?
And just by having those littlepieces to mix in, for me, gives
it night and day.
So that's why I kept going backto it.
And Lord, I hope we got some ofit because I sure have told
people about it.
I think so, I remember it beingcut, so.
Um, but yeah, there's a lot.
Uh, who
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (23:24):
know if it's coming or not, but um,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (23:26):
knows?
But yeah.
I
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (23:35):
I, then I go like six months later,
it's like, where's that ribbon?
And Stuart's like, I don't knowwhat you're talking about.
I'm like, I know he kills stuffoff.
I, he, I know he kills stuff offI've ordered, but I can't
remember it.
And I go, oh, okay, well,nevermind.
Or he, or I think he lies to me,people.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025_ (23:51):
I don't
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (23:52):
Let me, let me, let me, no, no, no,
no, no.
Let me tell you what I think.
Now I can't, I'm not going tocall Stuart a liar.
But I'm like, you know, I, I, Iordered certain such picture
frames and I, I really lovethose and he'll, Oh, you know,
those came in and every one ofthem were damaged and I sent
them back.
(24:12):
I'm like, or, you know, I wantedthat art and I love it.
Oh, you know, they discontinuedthat collection.
And I'm like, well, howconvenient is that?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (24:23):
Now, 80 percent of the time that's
true.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (24:29):
Oh, God.
I just keep saying, well, Iguess he's keeping us from going
broke.
I don't know what he's doing,but okay.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (24:36):
You're welcome.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (24:46):
the hell were they thinking?
Um, and I'm sure like it had,like, you know, we went and they
had, um, uh, well, okay.
So we have to preface this withwhere we're at.
It's a much more traditionalkind of undertone to it.
Right.
Right.
So, Really crazy colors aren'tgoing to be found here early on,
(25:11):
right?
Like they may be adapted later,right?
Once it kind of becomes kind ofjust people just being used to
see it But I don't rememberthere being anything crazy That
we saw aside from a bunch ofcoastal which I understand
because there's a lot of peoplelive in coastal There's a lot of
(25:32):
coastal Christmas.
I remember but there was a lotof color
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (25:36):
Well, that's what stands out in my
head.
It was just a lot of color.
Um, no, there wasn't any, youknow, like in the past we'd go
and there's.
Like gnomes on everything.
Every showroom has stupid gnomesand every showroom has mushrooms
and every showroom has whatever.
And you're like, I don't wantthat crap.
Right.
I didn't see that kind of as areal consistent this year.
(25:59):
It was pretty classic.
And which is, I think maybethat's one of the reasons it was
smooth for us is because that'swhat we do.
We don't do real funky and thecompanies that put it out there
did some really beautifulclassic stuff this
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (26:12):
hmm.
Yeah, I mean we've went beforeand they have like hot pink and
purple and just like the two ofthose together Or just all
amethyst and I'm like, I get it.
It's beautiful.
I can't sell this.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (26:24):
I don't, I don't think,
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (26:25):
We did see a lot of, um, Oh, what's
that animal?
A bison?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (26:33):
Oh the Highland Cows
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (26:35):
The Highland cows.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (26:36):
Yeah, I don't I don't know
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (26:37):
go to Bucky's and get it.
We will not have it here.
And That is fine.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (26:42):
I mean, I think they're adorable.
I think they're really cute.
I don't get it.
And specifically what Stuart'stalking about is like, you know,
it's the big cows that have likethe big furry fringe and the big
horns and they're, you know,they're, they're really cute,
but you know, when it comes tomind, you think you see, like,
you've seen like probably atBucky's, um, like pictures, like
artwork, well, we saw figures.
(27:04):
wrapped in C7s.
We saw, uh, water globes.
We, I mean everything, they wereeverywhere and I don't get it.
That, that was, uh, I don't.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (27:16):
well the, the, the funny thing I walk
away with, and this sounds likea dig and it's really not, is,
um, Jeremy won't remember this,but Stuart will because he's of
age.
Uh, it felt like 1983 a littlebit.
That there was a lot of mauveycolors and a lot of kind of
wedge witty kind of colonialblues.
(27:36):
And guess what?
We, we did some of that and I, Idon't, I don't not apologize for
that.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (27:41):
sell it where we are, you know, it'll
fit in percent of the homes andChevy Chase that haven't been
remodeled yet
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (27:51):
It, but it felt updated.
Like the tones or it was, itwas, it was, it was there, but
it felt updated and current.
And I kept looking at what we'rebuying.
I was like, Lord have mercy.
I'm, I'm going back 40 years inthe, in the hole.
But it's like, I'm getting it.
Let's get it.
Let's get it.
But there really were somepretty, in particular blue
ornaments, lots of pretty bluestuff this year.
(28:12):
Pretty, pretty blue rib.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So if you're a blue person, you,you're got it, got it made this
year, at least with us.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (28:19):
Okay, I did confirm that I do have
some of the Highland Cowfigures, uh, in my photo roll
from What the Hell at Market.
So I will, um, link those downin the show notes below so
people can see what I'm talkingabout.
Like, I don't understand.
Uh
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (28:34):
buy one.
We are not getting
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (28:35):
Ur, No, it's too late.
You can't order them now.
ha ha ha ha.
Yeah, I know, and they wereeverywhere.
And I didn't notice it at first,and Stuart, you pointed that
out, and I'm like God, they'reeverywhere.
I'm like, Oh, you're right.
They were everywhere we went.
I don't know.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (28:55):
Oh, well.
Okay.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (28:57):
Okay.
Were there any, home decortrends now?
I'm trying to think, uh, ifthere was anything like new or
earth shattering that we saw andI don't remember.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (29:04):
that was, that was the hard part.
I thought Christmas is easy,trying to find home decor and
artwork and stuff like that.
It was like, yikes.
I thought that was the
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (29:14):
Yeah.
Artwork artwork is always hard,but I will say home decor.
It's, it's, um, the, the thingabout.
Home decor it feels like and I'mthinking about a showroom that
we went in that we hadn't beenin a while And at the front of
it, it was very Modern organic,uh, tan, black white cream.
(29:37):
Okay.
And then you walked around andthen you walked into the back
and then it was ceramic balloonanimals and, uh, tea courses and
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (29:48):
Yeah.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20- (29:49):
acrylic candlesticks.
And my point is it went from,they had everything.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (29:54):
it
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2 (29:54):
seemed like, um.
And I understand that companieswant to have, uh, a little bit
of this, a little bit of that,because they want to try to
appeal to, they want to havesomething for everybody.
But I do feel that when it cameto home accessories, people
didn't have a clue, and so theywere just throwing everything.
That's what it felt like.
It felt like they were justthrowing spaghetti at the wall.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (30:11):
that when it came to home
accessories, people didn't havea clue until they were just told
they were, they don't like it,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (30:21):
Yeah.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (30:22):
want to get involved.
Offering to figure out whatwould fit
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (30:29):
That was a kind way to say it.
Junks.
What are you saying?
So again, that's where, that'swhere you found the, uh, used
pieces of gum,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (30:36):
there were a lot of used pieces again.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (30:38):
of gum in there
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (30:38):
Yeah.
Yeah, there was.
There was.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (30:40):
was
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (30:41):
I think that they, um, and like a
lot of them, they do cater to alot of different stores, a lot
of different, uh, customers, alot of different needs.
Right.
And so like a lot of stuff thatthey had there wouldn't have
pertained to our customer in ourstore, but I guess they would
have pertained to somebody.
I don't, I don't know what thatstore would have been.
It would have been a, I can'teven say younger audience
because the younger audiencecouldn't afford it.
Is that one of those closeoutplaces?
stuart-guest966_1_02 (31:06):
Gordman's.
I don't, I don't even know ifthey're still open anymore.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (31:09):
I think that's the place I got
really excited because I lovesocks.
Um, and I don't like old socks,and although all I have right
now are old, all old socks.
And there was a point where, um,my then boyfriend Jeremy, um,
Says you've got to do somethingabout these socks.
There are so many differentkinds, you know, we're gonna do
something and I was like, allright, fine So we'll just get
rid of them.
(31:29):
So we donated all of my oldsocks And we went to Gordman's
where I could get some cheap andI bought like 48 pair or
something You know washed themonce and they disintegrated
Okay, won't do that again.
All right, you know whateverOkay, so yeah home accessories.
(31:50):
That was I do feel it was alittle bit all over the place Or
they went really super modern.
Um, I'm thinking of, um,
stuart-guest966_1_02- (31:58):
companies we didn't even buy from because
they went Completely modern.
Um,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (32:06):
love to have those elements mixed
into it, but
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2025 (32:08):
we can't go, you know, spend
thousands of dollars on modernbecause we just won't
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (32:14):
yeah.
Yeah.
So that was the one thing withhome accessories.
I thought that it just felt likeit was really, everybody was all
over the place, not a hundredpercent committal.
Um, and then when they did, itwent really, Well, and I'm going
to say it this, uh, and I don'tmean it in a hateful way.
Um, cause God knows they sellit, but it went really home
(32:34):
goods.
There were, you'd walk in andyou'd see a lot of things that
you'd look, they had the looklike, okay, I'm gonna say this
is a home goods.
This is going to be at homegoods.
And I know that sounds great,but we, you do have to think
that when you go buy things, uh,if you, especially if you have a
store.
I don't want anything looks likeI could end up there.
So, all right, well, let's startwrapping up this week and let's
(32:55):
share something that we'reexcited about and something that
we're over.
Who would like to go first?
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:03):
I don't have anything yet, so I
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (33:04):
Okay.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:05):
this for about two seconds.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (33:06):
Well then I'll go.
Cause I thought I'll try to giveYou a little bit of heads up.
I know it wasn't much.
Um, I am.
Okay.
So of course, you know, I cannever limit myself.
Um, and so I'm over two things.
I'm over the snow.
Okay.
Because we just keep getting itin the cold weather and I have a
fence that needs to get repairedand it can get repaired until
it's warm enough to get fixed.
Um, and then the other thing isthat I'm over is that I now have
(33:27):
vertigo.
I don't even think I've told youall about this yet.
Uh, And it only happens when I'mlaying horizontally in the bed.
Um, when I wake up in the
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:38):
it do, like you're kind of just
spinning?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (33:40):
Uh, kind of, yeah.
It's like I'm watching a halfsecond loop of the room.
And I found out when I went tothe doctor yesterday.
And, you know, they were like,Oh, yeah, this is far to go.
And my mother had some issues.
And my grandfather
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (33:52):
why you weren't sleeping?
Is because of that?
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (33:54):
Mm mm.
No.
No.
No, no.
I just
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (33:57):
when you wake up,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-202 (33:58):
Just when I wake up and I roll over
and then like if I open my eyes,it's like a like a half a second
It's like I'm looking watching,a loop a half second loop and it
just keeps going back and goingback But what I found out was
it's because your eyes areliterally going back and forth
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (34:12):
Oh.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (34:14):
well,
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-20 (34:14):
what?
I'm learning is that the body isa weird and mysterious thing,
right?
We all know that And how itworks is just fascinating and it
has to do with your ears andcrystals in your ears and all
that I guess and so yeah, so nowI have vertigo at age 44 So
Merry Christmas.
But the thing I'm excited aboutis that we're starting this
(34:35):
again.
And our live sales are startingagain.
I feel like we're getting backin.
I've just, I know what peopleare gonna be really thrilled and
really happy.
And I'm, I'm excited to be ableto start doing these again and
connecting with people.
Cause I know that it did connectwith others.
So that makes me very happy.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_09363 (34:49):
There you go.
What you got first, Mr.
Hurt?
stuart-guest966_1_02-20- (34:54):
Things that I'm over I shouldn't put on
a public podcast.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_0936 (35:01):
Clear.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (35:02):
we'll just let that set.
Right there.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (35:07):
I hear that.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (35:11):
Um, things, I guess something that
I'm excited for?
Um, work related.
I think our, um, store, amazing.
I think our
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (35:28):
Yes.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (35:29):
year, even for spring, usually spring
is one of my like, you know,whatever.
I think it's really good.
And then looking ahead at whatwe have coming, I'm like, Hmm,
okay.
Cause it's going to be, it's ourstore, but it's different.
So
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (35:46):
I
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025 (35:47):
I'm glad you know
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (35:47):
I was walking around.
I, I was walking around theother day.
It's funny you said that.
It felt curated and collectedand different price points and
different textures.
And no, I, I, I'm right therewith you.
That I'm not, it's not a plug.
It's just the truth.
It's like, oh, I think we got,we got some good stuff right
now.
We, we got it right for, uh, forthis, this season.
(36:09):
Yeah.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-202 (36:09):
So, yeah.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (36:10):
Um, the thing that gives me joy This
is always people oriented forme, that I've been working on
some projects and I've beenlucky to be surrounded by some
really great trim carpenters andgood people, and anybody that is
(36:33):
a contractor or works with, hasever hired a contractor or
hired, anybody in the trades.
It can be a difficult pathbecause many are not
particularly reliable and likethe painter will look at you and
they'll just not show up thenext day even though they are
coming or the plumber will blowyou off or whatever it is,
(36:54):
right?
You know, all three of us haveto corral people to get them
there to your house.
And that's, that's our job andyou're looking at us.
And so you hope people won't lieto you, but they kind of do.
And I've been lucky to find somereally great people.
And the one that stands out is ayoung gentleman who's a trim
carpenter.
(37:14):
And he did some stuff at myhouse.
And before I ever use anybody,I'm always going to be the
Guinea pig.
And he would say, I'm going tobe at your house.
Uh, and this is when I'm coming.
He would text me, 30 minutes,I've just got in the car, I'll
be there in 30 minutes.
And I was like, this doesn'thappen.
And so, The other thing is, hewould be coming, this is his
(37:37):
side gig, and he'd be coming tomy house after work.
And I remember, um, used to dohouses for Christmas all the
time.
And I may have come to yourhouse directly after work and
not have dinner, right?
And, you know, nobody wouldthink about it, you know.
You would assume somebody'seating before they come in, but
I just didn't have time.
So, I've always done this, like,if anybody's coming, I know
they're coming, I make sure wehave, And so I said to the, the,
(38:00):
the, the gentleman, he's under30 years old.
So he's not older, much olderthan one of my kids.
And I made sure he was fedright.
And because he was so kind andso conscious and did everything
he said, but also wanted to feedhim and take care of him.
Well, I then had a conversationwith him and I said, because I
know his dream is to go own hisown construction company and
(38:23):
he's learning to speak Spanish,right?
If you look at him, he's just abubba, but he's learning to
speak Spanish and that impressedme so much.
And the long story is, though,his sweet wife sent us a peanut
butter pie with a little note onit.
Because I had had a conversationtwo days before that and I said,
When you have enough money, whenyou're comfortable, you're one
(38:45):
of those people that can go outon your own and you can control
your own destiny.
You will be better working foryourself because you, you got
it.
You can figure this out.
And he was grateful for mesaying that.
So, The pie was delivered fromthe gentleman who was going to
work in our house that night.
And he said, my wife told me Icouldn't read the card until you
(39:06):
had to read it first.
And so I opened it up and readit and it said, um, I won't say,
I'm going to call him George.
Thank you for always feeding myGeorge and making him feel
comfortable at your dinnertable.
How sweet was that?
But also, but also thank you,uh, for saying what you said and
encourage him to go do it, do iton his own.
(39:28):
I've been saying it for threeyears.
Maybe he'll listen to you now.
Thanks.
Tammy, right?
Right.
And I hope, you know, a lot oftimes you shouldn't assert
yourself in people's livesbecause you never know the
damage you can do, but I hopethis one's not damaged.
I hope this is good that hehears me and he hears his wife,
brother, you can go do that.
(39:48):
And so that's a positivity,right?
So let's now turn it to thenegative.
If you, the opposite, if youhave, um, a contractor you're
working with and somethingdoesn't go correctly, you, you
don't blame your.
Employees, you don't blame theperson that hired you, a.
k.
a.
(40:08):
threw me under the bus, to myclient.
And, right, and then you alsodon't, uh, throw the other
employee under the bus.
And so I got, you know, thistext with every excuse in the
world of why this happened.
And, I never responded otherthan I said, I hear you.
I need you to be here and I needyou to be here in an hour
(40:31):
because it's supposed to be inthere anyway.
And we did.
And I said, look, you threweverybody under the bus,
including me, which was really abad mistake.
I said, I'm sorry.
You own the company, andeverything that went wrong has
related to you.
Why don't you just look at meand own it, and let's just move
on.
(40:51):
I said, until you do, this isnot going to go well for you.
So the negative is, if you getit wrong, and somebody's saying
to you, I got it wrong, own it,right?
And a lot of people don't havethat power.
You just need to say, I got itwrong, let me fix it.
And that's my beef with people.
Own it, brother.
Just own it.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (41:08):
Well, Lord.
I didn't know
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (41:10):
Mm.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-20 (41:11):
were going.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_0 (41:15):
I was along for the ride, I don't
know if you could see myeyebrows just get going higher
and higher.
stuart-guest966_1_02-20-2 (41:19):
fixed all my contractor issues.
I just married my and he doeswhat I want.
Haha.
dwayne_1_02-20-2025_093630 (41:25):
good boy.
He's a good, good boy.
jeremy-host249_1_02-20-2025_ (41:28):
Oh goodness.
Well let's wrap this episode up,guys, thanks so much for
listening, we'll come back.
Every week with a new episode,uh, don't forget we have a
hotline that you can call ortext if you have an opinion of
anything we said at 1 859 4121572.
You can leave a voicemail anduh, we won't play it on air, but
we may read it for peoplebecause everybody likes to
(41:48):
complain a little bit.
Also, don't forget if youhaven't downloaded our mobile
shopping app, House Floral, Makesure you go and download that.
The link is down in the shownotes below.
Our live sales are startingagain on Wednesday evenings and
we're so excited to show the newstuff.
Um, and not, yeah, I thinkthat's good to go.
How's that sound?
All right.
We'll see you all next week.
Thanks guys.
(42:08):
Bye.
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