This is more difficult than I thought it would be!

Saturday Sunday, Monday February 20 – 22

We all backslide.  Every one of us.  Whether it’s a diet, or quitting smoking – it’s difficult to toe the line at times.

And I backslid with my shopping odyssey.  It would be easy to say I just didn’t spend any money anywhere.  But that wouldn’t be true.  Because we spent money outside the borough.

Yes, that is a rather random insertion of the Toadies singing Backslider from 1994.  Good times.

So in a three day period we went 1 - 2 -3.  But it would have been nice to have been 3 - 2 - 1.



On Saturday, Ken needed his car washed.  And went to the Major Shine Car Wash on Allentown Road.  Just outside the borough.  So close, but so far.  And they do a really good job.  But there is a car wash in Lansdale.  So this was a missed opportunity.

Lansdale Shopping Score:  Zero (But I could have)

Next, we are going out with friends to a BYOB.  And these people know their wine.  So we go to the State Store on Valley Forge Road.  Again, so close, but so far.  Not in the borough.  But it is a “Fine Wind & Good Spitis” shop that just has such a better wine selection than the Soviet-era State Store in the borough.  Please fogive us.

Lansdale Shopping Score:  Zero (But I could have)

We need some cheese and crackers.  For our friends.  Before we go out to dinner.  So it’s off to Acme we go.  Not in the borough. 

Lansdale Shopping Score:  Zero (I would have if I could have, but it’s something not available in the borough)

And then we go to a great Italian BYOB.  In Harleysville.  Villa Vito.  A really, really good italian BYOB.  A restaurant that I would love to have here in Lansdale.  Because the more restaurants, the merrier.

Lansdale Shopping Score:  Zero (But I could have)

On Sunday, I didn't spend a dime.  Not one dime.  

Now Monday wasn’t that great of a day.  We had a big purchase.  A big, bulky purchase.  A gigantic cat scratching post.  Or, as some of you may call it, a sofa.

Our old livingroom sofa was seventeen years old.  Bought at the Strawbridge & Clothier furniture department in the Montgomery Mall old.  And had suffered through the claws of our cats.  And the sunlight coming through the windows that had faded half of it.  But it was the comfiest sofa I ever had.  A perfect napping sofa.  I am going to miss old green. 

Hopefully the new sofa is comfortable for napping.  I couldn’t really try that out in the store.  The fine folks at Raymour & Flanigan just wouldn’t leave me alone long enough to truly get a good 40 winks in the showroom.

Lansdale Shopping Score:  Zero (I would have if I could have, but it’s something not available in the borough)

I did go to the Lansdale Borough Economic Development Committee meeting in the evening.  And we had a pretty good turnout.  With borough residents who had questions and coments.  Want to know whats going on in town?  Come to one of the many committee, commission, authority and council meetings.  They are informative, and often fun.

So, after that, my backsliding came to a halt.  Because we had dinner at the Lansdale Tavern.  French Dip with Swiss cheese.  I felt incredibly international.  Right here in Lansdale, PA.

Lansdale Shopping Score:  1

So the recap:

ONE opportunity to shop/eat in Lansdale met.

TWO needs not fulfilled by a Lansdale establishment.

THREE needs met outside the borough when I could have stayed here.

Let’s see what today brings!