What's In a Name?

When trying to decide what I wanted to name this blog, I thought about why I wanted to start another blog when I already have one: http://miteshop.spaces.live.com/default.aspx. The name for it: REVOLUTION: "Let's Change Our World". I talk about my life at home and on mission trips. I share spiritual lessons God is teaching me, and embed videos that speak to my spirit. When I started that blog, I thought I would share about my faith in God, my volunteer work with CrossOver Ministries, and the business I share with my husband, John, which is a thrift store called Mite-as-Well Shoppe. Since I really don't share a lot about our business on that website, I might do some "free" advertsing on this one.

The name Mite-as-Well Shoppe came about as a result of a series of mishaps in a given week. The business started out as Country Bumpkin Thrift Shoppe. We shared the business venture at that time with Jackie, my sister-in-law. After a period of time, Jackie left the business, we bought a second property location, and then had two stores. One week, on a Monday, the large 6ft. sign was stolen from our Hwy. 80 location. On Wed. of that same week, a lady accidentally ran into the sign at our Hwy. 55 location. It was then, when I knew we would have to purchase new signs, that I decided to change the name.

I liked the idea of the sign looking like a wishing well. So, I wanted the name "well" to be in the name. The word "mite" came from the widow's mite in the Bible signifying a small amount of money. I wanted people to feel they could shop at our store and save money. So, after much thought, I came up with Mite-as-Well Shoppe, and when people comment on it, I say "You might as well".

Now, back to the Junque-n-More name. At the time when we were still Country Bumpkin and in partnership with Jackie, I had a sign painted up for our section of the store which I called Country Junque. That's just a fancy name for junk. John's not really fond of the word "junk", but I like "junque". So, when I started selling items on eBay, I made my user name chndlrjunque (that's short for Chandler). I figured since I'm doing this blog (without John's assistance), I could name it whatever I liked. The "n-more" will be for all those other things I like to talk about.