Cremation Urns

The question I seem to get asked a lot is – Why cremation urns?

When I am asked what I do for a living and I mention that I sell cremation urns, people seem to react with a somber why? Well, it wasn’t because my family ran or owned a funeral home, which seems to be more of a common answer. For me it was because of my dad’s old company.

You see, I worked for my dad’s company Golf Treasures for a few years and back in 1998 before I worked for them we had started a business called Northwest Gifts.  That company started by selling locally manufactured golf gifts and other display cabinets.  Much of the golf items we sold were made by Golf Treasures, so when Golf Treasures started manufacturing a small line of 5 different hardwood urns, I figured we could create a website to sell those urns as well.

For a couple of years we would only sell a couple of urns a month. But as time went by things started to grow, of course, over those years many urns were added along with other manufactures lines of cremation urns. So, the history of my involvment in selling urns isn’t glamerous or very interested, but now it has become part of my daily life. I speak to many of our customers and feel their pain. The loss of a young child is always the hardest to hear, I can’t imagine the pain of those who have lost a child, but that is for another post.

Now you know the unglamerous history, the present and the future of Urns Northwest is still to serve at a time of great loss. It is always appreciated, yet humbling, to receive the many “thank you’s” from our customers.