August OMOL* sale

August 5, 2009

I mentioned last week that this was going to happen. Not earthshaking, not the kind of idea so good everybody's going to copy it; just this:

Every month we'll have some kind of item or widget or article that doesn't fit in fantastically with our normal offerings (even as scattered as they may be). These specials will be things we buy once only. Sometimes we'll buy the last of them, sometimes we'll just offer things that we like a lot but don't want to keep as a permanent menu item. It won't be anything as strange as NOS Walter Kendall Fives. Always it'll be something some normal person somewhere might want. Usually a really good example of whatever it is. It might not be down your aisle, but it'll be down somebody's aisle, and maybe next month you'll like it.

The first thing is madras shirts. They'll be up on the site by about 11 California time in the morning, Wednesday. Short- and long-sleeved, just a few mediums, more larges, and some XLs and even one XXL. We bought the lot, and this is all. A few Riv emps got them, but we're not being greedy.

All of the profit will go to charity. The charity may vary month to month, but we may keep a charity on the hot plate for more than a month going, if the profits are so small as to be insignificant. We want them to at least whisper "wow, this is kind of nice!" at the other end. Since these are things we don't live or die by, we can do this without hurting ourselves.

Thanks for helping us get through. We have some good things coming in the next several months. Everything just takes time! Anyway, yes---thanks.


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* one month or less!