Shop only from independent shops for 14 days

the big boxes have excellent prices when we are living on a budget. It is hard to justify paying $3.50 for a pound of tomatoes when you can get them for half that price at a Wal-Mart Super Store. That is twice as much food for our families.

I understand that dilema. There are no easy answers.

for a reminder to stay out of the big box mentality for the Holidays…

I’m going to extend this as a lifetime habit!

It has been fun sharing this goal with ya’ll!

Our switch to a mainly vegetarian diet has made this much easier than I thought possible. We are within walking distance of some very cool indy restaurants if we get bored cooking at home. There is an El Salvadorean place 2 blocks away that make the best spinach enchiladas I have ever tasted.

My car, which has 200k on it, stopped running this week so I have been working from home while it is in the shop. That cuts into our gas consumption and is good for the environment.

It has not been a hard adjustment to make but I do not have children at home and can take time to plot out my day. It is easier to do for one or two people.

It is exciting to see the response to this goal! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the largest team on 43T?

Let’s ask everyone we cheer to join us!

Yeppers -It seems to be the war of the economic worlds as we know it. Our rights are diminishing by the day being replaced with more government and corporate control.

This is a small way to fight back – with our wallets supporting our right to be in business .

Gas stations are a problem for most of us.

Luckily I can work from home. I live in an area where the bus comes right by my door and Dallas has the DART system that I can take most anywhere for 14 days.
It even takes me downtown within blocks of the Farmer’s Market.
I live in a cosmopolitan area of Dallas where stores and restuarants are within walking distance.

I know this is not true for most of us. If I were still living in Fort Worth that would not be possible at all. You have to use your car to find a shop that isn’t part of a corporate chain.

I am not easily offended but when it was pointed out in the State of the Union Address that we are addicted to oil I made a solemn vow to myself to walk, use mass transit, ride a bike .

Anything but put one more dollar into the hands of the ‘oil dealers’and then be accused of being addicted by the same dealers that caused my addiction. How dumb do they think we are?

I love mom and pop shops! I do not shop at discount or big chain department or grocery stores or eat in chain resturants. I get so tired of everything being the same!

I love shopping at boutiques, galleries, antique shops, small bookstores, the farmers market and family owned restuarants. I even found a small independantly owned toy store for those special gifts for the wee ones.

Who wants to make our world special again and join us???