Archive for November, 2009

Shop Local – Support Cleveland’s Montessori Kinder

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Kinder 2Wow! What a great concept. Between the dates of November 14 and November 21 if you shop  at the following locally owned stores in Cleveland you will not only get a discount on your purchase, but that discounted amount will be donated by the store to Montessori Kinder International School! Awesome! We all know how important it… Continue reading

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Christmas Is Coming — and with It Junk Mail Catalogs

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I know Christmas is just around the corner because the slow trickle of junk mail in the form of the Christmas catalog is coming in the mail. Slow because since we don’t use catalogs, we don’t receive many. But the average household receives many a Christmas catalog each day which accumulate and then are thrown in the trash.

A few years in a row I purchased Christmas floral gifts… Continue reading

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A Saturday of Shopping in Independent Stores

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Saturday was a typical errand day for me, just like a lot of women in America. Off work and that means I have lots of shopping errands to complete. But my shopping experience is about as different as it gets from the average American housewife who spends her bucks in chain stores and may never step foot in a locally owned store in her town.

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