Posts Tagged ‘buy local’

Cabbage – A Victorian vegetable rediscovered.

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

There are quite a few cabbage recipes in Great Aunt Lillian’s cookbook. It’s the end of the “spring” season cabbage weather here in the south and we won’t get any more in our local Farmer’s Market’s (I’m partial to the Five Points Market that takes place right outside my museum door!) until fall.

antique-wood-stovesI’ve been meaning to make the interesting… Continue reading

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After Christmas Sales

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Dan and I just got back from our after Christmas sales shopping sprees. We went to our two favorite clothing stores in town. For me, it’s Orange Blossom, a wonderful women’s boutique with stylish clothes, great service, and great sales. For Dan, it’s The Town Squire, a traditional men’s clothing store conveniently located two doors down from Orange Blossom with high quality clothes and incredible customer service.  (They… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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The True Meaning of Christmas

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

It’s almost Christmas and Dan and I have NOT succumbed to the shopping frenzy. But that’s really not new this year for us – we have never indulged in the Christmas shopping frenzy that has taken over America. We have always exchanged a few Christmas gifts depending on our economic status of the time, which usually isn’t much since I work in the non-profit world!

And last night as… Continue reading | 1 Comment

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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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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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Our Day at the Nashville Farmers Market

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

This is how I know we’ve changed over the last ten months of our experiment of not shopping or eating in chains.

Dan has been bugging me to go to Nashville on one of his rare weekend days off and we finally hit a day when we both didn’t have work commitments. Since I’ve been to Nashville many times, I said, “Go to their tourism website and decide what… Continue reading | 1 Comment

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