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Before we were together, I admired how outgoing she was. She was always going to parties, and I stayed away from most social gatherings. In the security of marriage, our personalities kinda flipped. She suddenly wanted to stay in and I realized I’m energized by social gatherings.

Laura enables and inspires everything I’ve made. I had a very clear idea when starting the store that I was doing it for her. Not so much to make a living (though I’m rather grateful it does), but as a gift for her. And even though getting it running was grueling, she never questioned me staking the life we’d built – our small savings, our time and our future – on it.

She’s very clever. I am surprised and somewhat grateful that I’m not on the receiving end of her wit more often. She is also astonishingly beautiful, and her wit and beauty are together in my mind in a way that I don’t understand. I was reading a Facebook status update where she was complaining about bad drivers, and it made me laugh out loud because I could hear her saying it in my head and she looked beautiful.

Laura’s usually one step ahead of me, especially in our relationship. I know she’s crazy about me, but sometimes my love for her catches me by surprise, and I wonder over it out loud: “You know, I’m crazy about you.” “I know,” she says.

It was known internally as Idaho’s Second Most Interesting Store while we were planning it. Now known internally as Hidden Treasures [pronounced: TRAY-zures], after the headline of our first newspaper article.

The Storm Cellar is a clothing consignment store. Bring in your unwanted clothes and when they sell we give you 50% of the sale.

We opened in November of 2009 at 212 S Main, and moved to a bigger location at 504 S Main in October of 2010.

When we originally started we took craft items and household goods, but the clothes are the only thing that really stuck. I hope to return to locally made items when I figure out how to do it well.

We intend the aesthetic of the store to be clean and inviting, in contrast to the “antique store” clutter of most consignment or thrift stores. The store is for customers looking for:

economical buys
eco-conscious recycled items and local shopping
unique items