My regular readers (all 7!) know that I am passionate about "buy local" initiatives. I firmly believe that every dollar one spends is a vote, and I try to spend my dollars at locally owned businesses most of the time. So when I read about the 3/50 Project in the newspaper, I was pretty excited. The concept is easy. Choose 3 independently-owned businesses in your local community that you would really miss if they went out of business, and pledge to spend $50/month at each of them.
Can you think of 3 favorite independently-owned stores in your community that you would like to support?
4 comments:
what a great idea
there is terrific pet store a few blocks from me. the Petco is closer and cheaper
i go to the local store.
i like that the owner loves dogs and cats and smiles at me
That is a great idea but ouch I can only think of one here to be honest. That is our Woodman's Grocery Store..
Hiroshima Day.
Excellent, upbeat, informative post. Yes, I try to buy local, but it seems increasingly difficult, doesn't it? Thanks for the reminder -- and the good modeling!
I wonder if there is a list of all the locally-owned businesses in my city. I'll follow up on that.
This is my monthly or bi-monthly visit to your blog. I'm slowly sliding off the edge of BlogLand. I'll be back in a month.
Thanks for this. I'm wondering if we could generate a list of local stores in Madison in various categories. The "buy local" food "movement" has received a lot of publicity of late, as it should. So this buy local is an important variation on this.
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