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Krista Sunday doesn’t have to consider getting up on weekends or any other day of the week to staff her Vintage Market on Morris Street. And she has stopped wondering if she will lose $9,000 this winter. Sunday, instead, is looking toward five days in Reno mid-month and the possibility of gaining cash at casinos there. After four-and-one-half years, she closed her consignment and used vintage goods store Friday.

“Losing money is not why I come to work every day,” she said, standing behind a white plastic table, the counter and the square register having departed earlier.

Sunday says she is not alone, that vintage sites and antique malls are closing monthly in the Valley and Island County.

Last fall Sunday had closed the Rehab Station coffee shop inside her market. She and partner Gretchen Dykers had moved that from two other nearby locations two-plus years ago.

Sunday’s favorite memories include a Roger Small art exhibit that had people spilling out on the street; a goat yoke that was not definable but sold quickly; and “really long African porcupine quills, about one foot long,” bought by an artist who then created “a really cool display titled ‘touch me art.’”

The one treasure she is not parting with is her zombie unicorn, despite numerous offers for it.

Sunday was thankful for the “several members of this community who have been very supportive of me.”

She is thankful for Dykers, even though she is putting Sunday on a spending allowance in Reno.

And she is going to miss the pirate carving out front, the first art installation on Morris Street.