A Simpler Time

l paper books, TV stations going off the air each night, and phones serving the singular purpose of conversing with another human. So "Face Time" your neighbor tonight over the back yard fence. Sit on a web-less porch with a favorite dog on your "lap top", and reminisce about all the good times you had...In A Simpler Time. Our business is like the small town stores were back then. Fair prices, good service and a commitment to our customers. In our 24 years of business we've been an A+ Better Business Bureau member, with ZERO complaints...despite being in one of the busiest tourist towns in America and having a leading e-commerce website. We invite you to take your time in our New Orleans French Quarter store or browse our website at www.asimplertime.com. If you see something you'd love to have, great! If not, thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day. Hopefully we made it just a little bit brighter. The Smile Train

Since the inception of this company, our locations in high traffic malls have resulted in many requests for charitable donations. Although we would love to fill every request, we also wanted to stay in business! Because our company is, in effect, a "celebration" of childhood, we decided early on to focus our charitable giving on youth-related non-profits. And while we've given to such worthy organizations as the Ronald McDonald House, March of Dimes, and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, we recently decided to "adopt" a pet charity. We picked The Smile Train for a number of reasons. One, this charity gets high marks from independent watchdog agencies for efficiency. Two, it focuses on performing and training local doctors in third world countries to perform important cleft palate surgery on poor children who otherwise would lead hopeless lives. And finally, every dollar we donate goes to perform surgeries, as advertising overhead is covered by major corporations. For each $250 donated, a life is changed. We donate yearly, and to date your donations have paid for nearly 300 surgeries. Ninety-eight children, facing a lifetime of being abandoned and ridiculed, can now smile...thanks to YOU. (As of 3/13/21)

We encourage you to visit their website at www.smiletrain.org to find out more about this wonderful charity and hopefully donate directly as well. Someday these children will be able to look back on their own childhood as...A Simpler Time