Saturday, October 27, 2012

Buy Local.....

Our challenge for November is to buy local , buy made in the USA and to help show that yes we can find our needs without buying from China--nothing against China.
  1. We will read labels, and look for the "Made in the USA" label;
  2. We will buy from local or regional businesses;
  3. We will spend our money trying to help local businesses, owned by local people. 

If we must buy a non-local or made in the USA item, we promises that we will have exhausted all avenues searching for a local source.

Sustainable economies are not created buy shopping at large super stores with masses of concrete parking areas and thousands of square feet worth of selling space

If you don't make your bread, buy your bread from a local bakery.  I am convinced that most health problems, including allergies, are created not from the food itself but the amount of processing involved.  Are you buying overly processed Kraft Mac and Cheese or are you making it at home from scratch?  If you take a slice of bread and ball it up and have it stay in a ball, its over processed.  Stop buying it!

If every family was to do just one purchase a week from a local shop and a made in the USA product think what kind of change we could bring about. 

Good luck and let me know if you are taking the challenge. 

Linking up with Our Good Life and the 3 in 30 challenge



And some of you may notice that my accomplishments for October are missing......  I gave up.  Seriously.  I made the goals in a weak moment, one full of depression; even despair, and anger.  I am still owning my No's, as I have written about recently, but I decided to scratch October and start fresh.  Life just happens sometimes.


In November, along with our buy local challenge, I m going to work hard on the following 3 things. 

  • Pictures in Photo Albums.  I have boxes of pictures and I would like to get a start on sorting them into albums.
  • Begin sewing some Christmas presents.  I want to make some doll clothes for Bear, as well as  few other things. 
  • Make Jam.....  since my extra freezer went kaputs my Aunt has been holding onto my fruit for me.  I need to get it from her freezer and make jam.  Strawberry, blackberry, peach.....  JAM.

There you have it.........  Hopefully I will be able to keep on top of it this next month.  The first week of the month is uber busy, but hopefully after that we can hunker down.

Good luck to all you starting new challenges and completing the October ones.

10 comments:

  1. Buying local is a great goal! We should all do that. Your other goals for November are great, too! Jam, yum!!!

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    1. We try to all the time, but with this big buying season we need to do so even more so! There are farm shares and co-ops, local shops, etc...even crafts sales. So many options that we forget about. Thank you.

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  2. It's okay to not accomplish thing sometimes. I just tell myself it means I was getting other, more important things done. lol

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    1. Thank you! I wish I could say that but admitedly it has been a very trying month. Very trying. Thank you though!

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  3. I love buying local. We live a little way behind our row of shops in our village and know each and every trader. Most have eaten at our house before and each year we give them hand-made chocolates the children have made and managed to refrain from eating! Love our village, love ouy community. That is one great goal!!

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    1. Oh what a wonderful life! I just visited your blog, http://angelicscalliwags.wordpress.com/ and could get lost for a while there. :-) Thank you for visiting.

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  4. Wow - you are totally encouraging me to look locally! Admittedly I buy at the grocery store and never really look where things are made. I need to start doing that more!

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    1. Good! Every little bit helps. :-) Thank you for stopping by.

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  5. Great post, Kim. Thanks for the reminder!

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