We went Christmas shopping today, and even though I had adds and coupons for Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Target, and Bath and Body Works, we skipped the mall entirely. We decided, thanks to Fancy Tiger, that we are going to buy from locally owned stores this Christmas.
Nate decide we should go to Fancy Tiger while we were out and about on Broadway. We walked in and they offered us PBR right away- a beer that Nate usually wouldn't drink but easily accepted since it was free. I got sidetracked from Christmas shopping and convinced Nate to try on a pea-coat style sweater- I think I can thank the PBR for that on!
We were so inspired by the things that we saw there that we went down the street to another locally-owned store, Decade. It doesn't have all the clothes that Fancy Tiger has, but there's a million little gifts that we sifted through for at least a half an hour.
We've heard that buying locally is supposed to pull America out of it's economical sink-hole, but if it doesn't, at least our family will have some clever little gifts from our attempts.
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