What people have written in our Guestbook
Last names etc. have been omitted to protect people’s privacy. All of these are real, and available for viewing in our guestbook.
Many thanks to all the nice things people from out of town have said! We kind of thought Wallingford was off the beaten track for tourists, but it pleasantly seems that is not the case. We are also proud to have been voted in as a People’s Pick in 2006, and the Best Place to Meet the Proprietors in the 2009 Seattle Weekly poll.
We thank the people below for their wonderful comments.
- “I am an ex-pat living in Canada, and whenever I come to Seattle, this is the one place I have to go NO MATTER WHAT! I woke up this morning and felt like a kid at Christmas (or Festivus) knowing today was slotted for ‘Not A Number!'” – KD Melbourne, Ontario Canada
- “This store is the coolest store ever” – Wanda
- “Love the local and environmentally friendly and socially responsible stuff you carry! Yay! And fun too! This pen is fun!”
- “Hi from Kalamazoo” – Hi back!
- “Hey from N.Y. Your store has stuff that I couldn’t even think of its [sic] awesome!”
- “Hello from Denver – Great Store!!”
- “Great Stuff” - Family from Arizona
- “Aloha from Maui! I love the store..come back & visit soon – the isles ar calling U both” – Awe thanks, we hope to visit again soon!
- “Thank you. We need you” - Caroline from Minneapolis
- “You have a fun – fun – fun – store” – Sioux City, IA
- “We need you in Tacoma” – Wow so nice to be wanted in so many places! Keep us in business here first, and then we’ll look at expanding
- “This is a fun store. Reminds me of my childhood.” Bahan, San Francisco. We hope that we are current too with all our political stuff!
- “Your pins are all over me [sic] backpack! (the teachers blink.)” – Katie, Sierra Madre
- “Thank you for your uniqueness! (sp?)” – We really like this comment, thanks!
- “How refreshing! A pleasant touch of reality!” Steve & Molly from F.H. – We like this comment a lot too!
- “This is my friends favorite store and now I know why. I’m glad you stock nice lotions and things or I’d have gotten some wise ass thing for my birthday” – Glad we stock things that you like.
- “Peace Rocks from the military keep supporting intelligence.” – Tim, visiting Coast Guard
- “This is my favorite card store! Love the funny cards” – Nicole
- “Keep up the great fight”
- “Best Birthday gifts store ever! Thank you!”
- “This is the best and most interesting store I have been to.”
- “This is the best store ever.”
- “This is the best place ever” - and we thought the one above was over the top! Thanks!
- “We come from the eastside to get our bumper stickers! Great store.” - Thanks for visiting and spreading the word on the eastside!
- “Seriously Therapeutic!” – Glad this one doesn’t contain the word great! Please let the be more with words beside great.
- “I’ll be back…” – Short, sweet, and very much what we like to hear!
- “I like the toys they have here Mommy!” – As said by Cedar, age 4
- “Great store – Great owner – heard about you on YES KPTK 1090AM…” – Lot’s of “greats”, but hey they mention the owners, and that’s nice. AM1090 is the best advertising dollar we spend!
- “I just moved here and this is the absolute coolest place over!” – Over the top, yes, but no “great”!
- “Thank you for the smiles – Thank you.”
- “Fun store!”
- “O.K. so you don’t have to buy anything but please do your progressive overly stressed brain a therapeutic favor by spending a hour a week reading the bumber [sic] sticker wall and laughing your ass off” – Never thought of our store as therapy, but we like it!
- “Good Shop! Love from Venice, CA.”
- “Thanks for this store which is a good image of the US.” - Morgan from France. We’re doing our best to spread a positive image of the US to the world!
- “What a super fantastic shop!!” – Cindy and Kelly (Vancouver, Canada) – How do all these people from out of town find us?
- “Love your store – open one in Calgary! I have a spot for lease” - Very nice offer, we’ll keep it in mind for the future!
- “Great shop to spend some time in!” – Carolina U.K.
- “Made me feel great about coming into the store! I had a great time”. Mike B.C./Canada. Thanks Mike, we try and give the same feeling to everyone who walks through our doors, glad that we succeeded in your case!
- “This is a HUGE pen.” - Tanya “I’ve seen bigger” - Matt & Julian – It’s true, we do have a large pen!
- “Love it here – would write more but I can’t compete with the funny items in the store…”
- “Even San Francisco has nuthing like this store! Wow.” – Are you sure? Thanks whoever wrote this, it is high praise indeed! (We thnk?!)
- “Great Stuff!!!!“
- “Finally a store that looks like my mind.”- Wow, thanks for the compliment, we think :-), we’re not sure what it would be like to have a mind like our store!
- “Thanks for carrying bumper stickers – you’re the only one in town!” - There are other, but we do pride ourselves on having one of the largest selections.
- “The grownup Archie McPhee” – quote in the store from a customer 7/21
- “Awesome shop! Cool area, pleasant owners! Thanx for the hospitality” – The Andersons from Orlando Florida – Thanks for stopping in! We hope you enjoyed your stay!
- “That’s the best selection of bumperstickers I’ve ever seen!”
- “Don’t judge me but I HATE the Republican party! I felt loved and accepted here. Thank you!” – No THANK YOU, for the kind comments. We accept everyone here, even if we disagree, and we’re happy to debate about our disagreements!
- “Great place. I love it very much.”
- “I will be back.”
- “I love it here.”
- “You are one kewl [sic] guy. This stor [sic] rocks my socks.” – Aw shucks
- “You guys are a bright spot in this town + world.” – Thanks so much for the thought, but if we’re one of the bright spots, then the world is in deeper trouble than we think.
- “This is the best place on Earth. I absolutely love it here” – And we love you too! Thanks so much for the nice comments, but please let us go home sometime.
- “Our new favorite store.” – A family that heard our AM1090 ad, apologies to their old favorite store, we hope it was a corporate chain.
- “Thanks for being here + causing a little trouble!”
- “This is the absolute most hilarious Bush-bashing store my blue-state ass has ever been in!”
- “This store is the coolest!” Thanks so much, maybe it’s because we’re in the coolest block!
- “This store ROCKS, I’ll be in again!”
- “I LOVE THIS STORE! and all the trinkets!”
- “Sweet store, awesome gifts!”
- “Better than Archie Mcfees! Great Store!” – Thanks for the compliment, we love Archies
- “Thanks for having awesome stuff”
- “This is such a cool store! Thanx”
- “Thanks for everything. Nice Store”
- “I’ve never had so much fun shopping”
- “Great store! Fun stuff”
- “It’s about time we got a store like this. Call if you’re hiring” – Sorry, not yet.
- “This place is way cool. We’ve had a shakelight for 3 years and it still works great. We’re buying them for all our friends.”
- “I finally found a card that didn’t suck. Thanks!”
- “Welcome to the neighborhood! You rock!”
There are lots more, which are available for viewing when visiting our store – assuming we can find all the guestbooks we have 
Please be sure to leave your comments below!
Other nice things have been written about us on Yelp and the Insider Pages.
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