yo mamma's home
96 Main Street
Belfast, ME 04915
207-338-4884
yomammashome@
gmail.com

Open 7 days a week
9am to 6pm or later

Our Store, Our Story

We welcome you to Yo Mamma's Home, our store! We are pleased and excited to find ourselves owning a store. We didn't arrive at this point in a planned or business-like way.

In 2001 We, Sandhya and Mallery, found ourselves without work and in great need. We won't bore you with the gorey details. Having been friends and neighbors for many years, we sat down one day and put our heads together to find a solution to this dilemma.

Sandhya and Mallery

Sandhya said, "O.K., What do we know how to do?" We then listed all the things we could do; cooking, cleaning, gardening, sewing, painting, papering, splitting wood, driving, mowing, sorting, organizing, caring for children etc. We quite impressed ourselves when we read our own list.

Mallery had had various semi corporate jobs over the past few years, and in those had spent hours dreaming of a business that she would create called yo mamma. What the nuts and bolts of the business were to be, remained a bit fuzzy, but still...a great name. So looking at the list of what we had to offer, we decided a service business that helped people get stuff done, was the way to go and we would call it,'Yo Mamma, Inc.'

"Yo Mamma's Home on a sunny Sunday"

Posted June 7th, 2009 by althewebmaster

Phyllis buys a clock
for the kitchen
something we have gone without
for almost four years.
It is mechanical up front
and will go well
with the Himalayan Trek paint
and the art work by Lee and Richard.
The pretty lady at the register asks if that is all
but I say, "No".
The perfect eye feasts in this store,
we can only come months apart
to bring back treasures
to Lobster City.
There is the scent of music,
there is the sound of jewelry
filling the store with goodness.
I have set myself a small task
ending the war in Afghanistan
so Yo Mamma's Home
can carry their weaving
freeing the women there
and helping bring peace
so everybody could shop
on every summer Sunday.

Kendall Merriam at Yo Mamma's Home, Belfast, ME 6/7/09 11:55 am, listening to music and customers.


Kendall Merriam Poem

Posted February 20th, 2009 by althewebmaster

Gone From Revolution
For Yo Mamma's

Placing Tracy Chapman
Cooler, more loving than her first album
the store seems bigger, gigantic
filled with objects, necklaces
rugs not made in Maine
there is only one customer, beautiful
with the taste of a Saint
Her home, I bet, is laden
with only a few paintings
though she owns a closetfull
almost all original
How she loves the store
even though she can only make it-once a year
taking children to heart
even unto the smallest town
One cannot begrudge
her search for beauty
seeking her mother's approval
a woman who understood
ancient Greek and aeronautical math
these many years gone
I'm sure her mother would approve
both her job, her searching
which brings her here
to the beauty bank at Yo's!

By: Kendall Merriam at Yo Mamma's February 7, 2009 4:00PM
Listening to Internet Music and the creak of the floor.

Days of Color, Days of Sadness

(For Yo mamma)
by: Kendall Merriam

Women love to shop
for clothing, jewelry
It enhances their lives.
They have seen so many colors
that it weakens men’s minds.
Who can only distinguish
the rough stones of Sikkim
and not the subtle tones
of a white tiger.
It is both harmless and happy.
For the little shops
of the bazaar
to get some modicum
of any family’s income
on beauty both visual and scented.
Men, I am afraid,
like to waste trillions
on war
and confining religion;
Leaving scraps of carpet
which women
take as well as they can
to beautify their houses
or fingers and
swanlike necks.
But men are anxious
with anger and war.
Cannot stop and admire
The beauty of the women
of Earth,
only outdone by birds…
a nickname
any woman can take with joy!

At Yo Mamma’s Shop in Belfast, Maine, March 29, 2008;
While listening to women exclaim.

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