North of the 49th

I’ve come to understand that it is common for Canadian children to feel disadvantaged upon returning from a trip to the United States. The proliferation of fast food choices, amusement parks and mega-malls full of toys and the like made smaller-town Canada seem very pale in comparison.

My sister and I would bee-line for Chuck E. Cheese every time we made our way to Seattle, both of us understanding the combining of pizza and video games to be greatest merger of all time. Provided we kept a lid on it while we shopped for back to school clothes each year, we were rewarded with a precious 3-hour window of greasy cheese, soda and arcade favorites.

Just as quickly as it came around each Labor Day it was gone as soon as we departed the Anacortes ferry in Sidney. I remember getting one last fix of 50-cent chocolate bars on the ferry before proceeding into my annual rant on the way back into town on how “Canada gets nothing good.” Oh, the blissful ignorance of youth.

Granted, that was very short-sighted in a way to be expected of a pre-teen, but in truth the number of retailers and consumer goods available to Canadian consumers has grown exponentially even since those days. While it’s commonly referred to the “American Dream”, it might be more applicable to add the adjective “North” to the term as Canadians are just as determined to provide themselves with a comfortable life as their southerly neighbors.

Cymax Stores understands that Canadians demanding quality home furnishings, and at competitive prices, is a given as well. Accordingly, Cymax is pleased to consolidate all of its products available to Canadian consumers at www.cymaxstores.ca. Individuals can peruse the impressive selection of home and office products in much the same way they would do at www.cymax.com, but without the need to search for the “THIS PRODUCT SHIPS TO CANADA” tag on the product page. At Cymax Canada, you don’t need to give a second thought as to whether or not the product is available to you at a Canadian residence. Canadian consumers are similarly encouraged to take advantage of the free shipping offer extended to them until October 6^th.

When it comes to providing top-quality products at reasonable prices with a full-satisfaction guarantee, Cymax most certainly hasn’t forgotten those of you north of the Fourty-Ninth Parallel.

A to Z

As another year passes into the books for our country and our southern neighbor readies to do so in two days time, Cymax would like to remind federal and less-swamped bookkeepers alike of the peace of mind afforded by keeping records in an orderly and equally stylish manner.

Surely filing is one office capacity where the suit-n-tie guy can envy the suburban rental shop clerk. Must be nice to give it little more thought than impaling way-bills on a paper skewer before rubber banding a lengths’ worth and dropping the stack randomly into a nearby drawer. For most, the need for a legitimate paper trail means a specific fixture must be within short reach of the desk, and the days of the grey-metal box file’s uniformity have long since past.

Even as recently as my teenage years, when I thought of a large office I had a conception something along the lines of the drab stretches of the Washington Post Office in All the President’s Men; an endless horizon of copycat cubicles, monstrous typewriters and the odd furnace-sized computer mainframe. Out of the public school fishbowl and into the real world, I naturally realized modern offices aren’t nearly as wholly sterile.

So now whether you’re as much a vanguard as Woodward or Bernstein or a more humble corporate peon, there is every reason to expand your filing capacities at the office without ever leaving it by means of online shopping at cymaxstores.com. With over 500 filing storage products, you’re nearly assured of finding a way to make the token daily bend-over-and-pull a little more pleasing.

A Bush Lateral File might be a well-received choice, combining more sleek and modern design with a variety of hardwood cabinets, charismatic design themes and notably competitive pricing. Kathy Ireland Lateral File Cabinets possess the same visual-character appeal as a means of furthering the warmth and personality of the space in which you likely spend a large portion of the week. For the price, a Bestar Pedestal file can’t be beat and the versatility to vertically mount the unit may expand its practical and value appeal. A HON Lateral File is a safe bet for those who are looking to fall somewhere in between the aforementioned 1976 reference and something more modern, with hybrid takes on filing cabinets incorporating that simple practicality with subtle design facelifts.

Happy 141^st Canada and similar birthday wishes to our American friends as their Independence Day approaches.