Would A 'quaker' Charity Shop Sell Christmas Cards?

[sandyRoe]

I'm not sure if they're big on Christmas.

[mrs_overall]

I have a friend who is a Quaker and he celebrates Christmas the same as everyone else

[sandyRoe]

Thanks, Mrs O. It's just that there's one of their charity shops near where I'll be going today. I'll make a detour and get a few cards.

[mrs_overall]

I will be interested to know if they sell them. Let us know.

[mikey4444]

Sandy...the Quakers would appear to be Christians. Indeed, Wiki describes them as Protestant and Congregational, so I am at a loss to see why they wouldn't sell Xmas cards ?

[sandyRoe]

Mikey, indeed they are Christians and among the best of them. I had thought they wouldn't like the frippery normally associated with Christmas.
I'll see later.

[sandyRoe]

The Friends Charity Shop on the LIsburn Road had only a few cards, and none of them what I'd consider 'charity cards'. Looks as though their heart's not in it.
I'll have to go somewhere else.

[carrust]

Quakers are tea totallers though!

[stuey]

Sandy, you mentioned Lisburn Road. A friend of mine used to live at 26 Blaris Park. Are you familiar with that area?...Just curious.

[sandyRoe]

Stuey, that's actually in Lisburn. It's not too far away but a place I've never been to.

[stuey]

OK. She was born there, and lived in the house until the family moved over here.

[sandyRoe]

A lot of Belfast people went to Toronto. There was a lad lived just around the corner from us. He was christened, Alfred, but everybody called him Freddie. When he came back on a holiday, it had changed. 'Call me Al', he'd say.

[stuey]

My friend's mother is in her mid 80s and still goes, by herself, to Lisburn for a holiday every year. The last name is Hutchinson.

[jno]

http://www.quietwayscards.co.uk/pages/aboutus.html

[sandyRoe]

JNO, thanks for that link. I've just ordered 10 assorted cards.

Stuey, she's braver than Freddie/Al. When he first came back it was the early 70s and he wouldn't come into Belfast. We met up in a town where his parents had moved about 14 miles from where we used to live.

[wolf63]

Sandy - are you actually an Irish man? For some reason I thought that you were born in that other country south of Scotland.

[jno]

you thought Señor sandy was Spanish? You could be right

[sandyRoe]

I was born in St Mary's hospital, Paddington. But my parents returned to Belfast when I was 3 or 4.
I sometimes wonder how things might have panned out for us if they'd stayed.

[BlackadderV]

According to this link Quakers are not forbidden alcohol or tobacco, but they do not celebrate Xmas or Easter or, by the looks of it, any Christian festivals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/quakers_1.shtml

[sandyRoe]

I did order the cards but they've not arrived yet. I suppose they'll do for next Christmas.