Small Business Saturday


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We do a lot of shopping today, not on Black Friday, to support our local stores and crafts people. Some in person, other times by phone or net orders, but still local. The money then recycles itself through the community several times, a very good thing

One gift that my lady relatives & friends enjoy is getting a hand crafted "band saw jewelry box", in which a box is made following the general contours of a log or other found piece of natural wood. Sometimes intarsia techniques are used to give the drawers unique shapes. See example bottom.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/11/29/small-business-saturday/3785883/

Small Business Saturday fosters mom-and-pop shopping

Black Friday and, increasingly, Thanksgiving night are for big-box retailers with thousands of stores, but Theresa Mitchell says Saturday is the day for businesses like hers.

Mitchell and her mother, Jan Stewart, own The Bath Cottage, a 36-year-old bed and bath retailer in Cocoa, Fla.

"Small business is something that Americans are losing sight of with Internet buying and big box stores," Mitchell said. "Some people are forgetting that small businesses are very much a part of their community."

This Saturday is Small Business Saturday, a day set aside since 2010 between Black Friday and Cyber Monday to encourage shoppers to spend their holiday money at local mom-and-pop stores on clothing, jewelry, toys, accessories and other merchandise.

Tramarea Adams' clothing store, Golden Glam Boutique in Jackson, Miss., doesn't have a million-dollar advertising budget. But like the Macy's and JCPenney stores across the USA, it needs a steady stream of customers.

Golden Glam opened about a year ago, so this is Adams' first chance to promote her store through Small Business Saturday. Her Heels, Ties and Toys event will spotlight not only her store's clothing but also serve as a toy drive for a local shelter for abused women and children.

"This year, a lot of people have committed to shopping with us," she said. Golden Glam is opening an hour earlier than usual.

More than 9 in 10 small-business owners nationally give back to their communities in some way, be it working with nonprofits, coaching youth sports teams or holding public office, said Ron Aldridge, Mississippi director of the nonprofit nonpartisan National Federation of Independent Business.

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