Thanksgiving, and Oriental Rugs
We had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. I already wrote about this in my previous post. As planned, I was at work yesterday, Friday at 9:00 am. A customer came in and picked up his cleaned Pakistani rug…
A Day Before Thanksgiving
Yesterday was a relatively busy day. Few customers brought their Persian or Oriental rugs for cleaning and repair. A friend who lives in a city close to Los Angeles brought in a couple of rugs for cleaning and picked up…
Rug Cleaning in Early Morning
A customer called me at 7:55 am today and asked me if our store was open and I said yes, we’re open and I asked if he had our address. He said yes you’re on Olympic Blvd. I said no,…
A Very Slow Day and My Birthday
It was very slow yesterday. Few people came in separately, but they were only asking for cheap area rugs which I did not have. A couple of rug dealers also came in to sell area rugs. I contacted a few…
God Creating Women!
Can you imagine what would happen if God had not created women? All the businesses would go bankrupt! Usually when a couple come to our store to buy a rug or give us a rug for cleaning and repair, we…
We Delivered Few Cleaned Rugs Today
We delivered few cleaned rugs today. I talked about this job on another post. The lady and her husband wanted to have only one rug cleaned and sell the other fine Persian silk rugs. I recommended that we clean other…
A Kerman Rug on E-Bay
A customer came in with an old Kerman rug which needed to be cleaned. When we said this would cost her $175, she said” I bought this rug on e-bay for $79 and paid $65 for shipping”. She was surprised…
Delivering Cleaned Rugs and Selling One Qashqai Piece
Yesterday, I delivered an old Persian Heriz and a Kilim which was given to us by a customer from Hollywood area. The kilim was so dirty that we had to wash it few times, face and the back. The customer…
Veteran’s Day and Selling a Shiraz Rug
It was Veterans Day yesterday in the United States and was a public holiday. Shops and many private institutions were open. We were open too doing some paper work and paying few of the many bills I had waiting for…
My Son’s Birthday, Getting Tip From a Customer and More
Friday, November 9th, my older son Ashkan turned 21. We had a party in an Italian-Persian restaurant in Culver City in Los Angeles. Ashkan did not know that his friends from his university (California State University, Northridge, CSUN) would be…