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How WoodLand Things came to be

Hi: I took the time to do this because I think your company might actually be one of the extraordinary types of businesses that combines customer service, punctuality, and fair prices. This is not easy to find. I have a house in the mountains in Yosemite. I think it is fun to decorate it in a lodge theme, especially since I live on the coast! I have done research on the "net", looking for prices on the same object, and I have found you to be the most fair. I don't know what led you guys to pursue this as your livelihood, but you are very good at it. I would be very interested to hear it, though! At this point in time, I have ordered approx. $200.00 from you in merchandise and will continue to do so.

Thanks! Jules

Dear Jules, Your feedback brightened everyone's day! We've operated a daycare facility in the Adirondack Mts. for 18 years which WoodLand Things helps to support, so we are familiar with the needs of others. My husband & I and our two children, then 1 1/2 & 2 1/2 years old left Long Island to fulfill a life long dream of building our own log home in the WoodLands of the Adirondack Mts. I'd camped in the Adirondacks for 2 weeks each summer while growing up in the Bronx so it seemed the perfect fairytale come true place. We spent 2 years designing and drawing plans for our log cabin, then purchased logs, lumber and windows and went to work on the 25 WoodLand acres we'd purchased. It took over 2 years doing all the plumbing and electric work, carpentry and finishing work ourselves. It was an unbelievable adventure with 2 small children helping to pound nails and dowels. We established Lake George Daycare because we could not locate the type of facility we wanted for our boys. We wanted them to be in the woods to be able to hand feed birds and watch deer browse, to camp and backpack and enjoy the natural wilderness while learning the cognitive, social and self help skills that all preschoolers need. We couldn't find it, so we created it. Creative playground and 40' covered tricycle deck included. Now that our log home was built we wanted to decorate it with lodge and cabin decor at an affordable price. Again we could not find that situation, so we decided to create it. Customer service has always been a simple matter of treating others the way we wish to be treated. Can't go wrong with that philosophy. The products we sell are the products we use ourselves to decorate. We hope the people who, like us, love everything about nature and the wilderness will find us and shop at WoodLand Things.

Karen and Keith Lindstadt