Dan and I took a week-long vacation recently to visit family and friends in Maryland and Virginia. Of course, when we travel we try to do as much as possible unchained. On this trip we stayed with friends in Maryland and family in Virginia. When you stay with people who don’t always hold to your unchained values, we can run into some problems. Sort of like a vegetarian who travels… Continue reading | 2 Comments
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Unchained Vacation – Viriginia and Maryland
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
After Christmas Sales
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Dan 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
Shop Local – Support Cleveland’s Montessori Kinder
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Wow! 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
A Saturday of Shopping in Independent Stores
Sunday, November 8th, 2009Saturday 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, 2009This 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
