Faith and Beggorah! St. Patrick's Day is a huge-ass big deal here in Chicagoland. Everyone will wear green. Everyone will raise a glass in celebration. Neighborhoods have their own competing parades. We even dye the Chicago River green.
Yet at the card shop where I work, all we sell for St. Patrick's Day is four different greeting cards. I was told this is because St. Patrick's Day is not the event nationwide that it is in Chicago and Boston, and since our store is part of a national chain, we get the same merchandise as every other store in the country gets. They don't tailor what they send us to our unique customer base.
This is a missed opportunity, as evidenced by the 13 top St. Patrick's Day items on sale at the dollar store on the other side of town.
1. 16-oz. St. Patrick’s Day tumblers
2. Shamrock headbands
3. Snoopy-as-Leprechaun socks
4. Winnie the Pooh-as-Leprechaun socks
5. Cardboard shamrock eyeglasses
6. Leprechaun green felt hats
7. Shamrock felt garland
8. Leprechaun party straws
9. Pot o'gold dishtowels
10. Shamrock beads
11. Leprechaun wall decorations`
12. Sheet of "Luck of the Irish/Lucky charm" stickers
13. Shamrock foil balloons
How about your neighborhood? Will you see many leprechauns and shamrocks as St. Patrick's Day approaches?
Please join us for THURSDAY THIRTEEN. Click here to play along, and to see other interesting compilations of 13 things.
