Got some items to sell? Give ’em the boot. That’s what the British do. And it’s far less violent than you might imagine: boot sales are the Brit term for the events we’d call flea markets. If you’re thinking it’s a reference to shoes, you’d be wrong: boot is the word used in England to…
Is it time for a change? No? That’s fine with us. Tomorrow will work, as will next week. Or even never. We’re able to roll with the changes any time you’d like to make them. Whether it’s updated wording, some extra details you’d like to include or a price reduction, we welcome changes to your…
We thought we’d finally discovered The Big Heavy: we received an ad for a 2 ton air conditioning unit. It’s common knowledge that most window units are hardly featherweight, but still! We wondered how large, exactly, was this behemoth of a cooling system? Visions of stories-tall machinery danced in our heads. And then we researched…
We’re radio active! No fear, though: there’s no need to get out that spiffy lead apron used for X-rays in the dentist’s office. Our radio activity is of a rather benign sort. Harmless. Safe. And rather fun, if we do say so ourselves. Catch us on the air every Saturday morning on NEPA’s ESPN radio…
If we’ve learned nothing else from the Great Twinkie Incident of 2012 & 2013, this much is clear: you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. It’s funny how easy it is to take something for granted when it always seems to be available. It’s even more interesting how welcome the return of that…
Shift. Then the number 2. It’s a keyboard combination that we all type with some frequency. And it’s also one that most of us used very little until the last two decades; before email, we just didn’t pay all that much attention to @. So we wondered (don’t we always?) why that little A in the…
That’s likely a rather unnecessary order, as you’ve probably been soaking up the air conditioning for at least the past week. We certainly have been! And although cool air on command in a wonderful thing, you might not realize how very revolutionary the invention of air conditioning actually was. Before Willis Carrier invented the first air…
Seriously. Don’t. It’s our job to help you with the details, and as a pretty small business, we’re lucky to be able to give you the help you need whenever you need it. Got a question? Ask away. Want to change a current ad? Great! New to uploading photos to the web and need us…
We don’t just mind our P’s & Q’s around here, we also mind our NIB’s, NOS’ and OBO’s. In other words, we like abbreviations; they allow us to get information into an ad in a way that’s easy to quickly enter and simple for potential buyers to understand. Most of the abbreviations we come across…
Questions. We love ‘em. When somebody has a question for us here at Paper Shop, we know that they’re either already advertising with us or thinking of giving us a try. We’re happy to help with and all inquiries, and we’ve found that a number of them are, well, frequently asked questions. Here’s where we take…