{"id":1717,"date":"2010-11-01T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:32:49","slug":"local-or-big-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/11\/local-or-big-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Local or Big Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wallet-guy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wallet-guy1.jpg\" alt=\"man with wallet\" title=\"wallet-guy\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1721\" \/><\/a>As a woman who needs to make a significant portion of her income on this weaving and jewelry business, I am truly thankful for the people from hundreds or thousands of miles away who buy my products from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondwindjewelry.com\" target= \"_blank\">my website<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>But as a member of a small, rural area, I can&#8217;t emphasize enough the importance of spending our dollars locally, supporting local businesses.  Having spent most of my life working in the not-for-profit sector, I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of support for service agencies comes not from the big box stores, but from the mom &#038; pop businesses.  They are there for the community time and time again.  Economists have proven the benefits of $$ recycling locally.  So I have long made it a commitment to get my new pliers from Friendship Hardware, my groceries from the Cuba Giant, and my gas from Miller and Brandes, three local stores, instead of the huge multi-state retailers that are nearby.  <\/p>\n<p>Ginny, a fellow member of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.newyorkcrafters.com\/\" target= \"_blank\">New York Crafters<\/a>, wrote a great <a href=\"http:\/\/giftoflovebagproject.com\/2010\/11\/why-buy-handmade-or-local\" target= \"_blank\">blog post<\/a> about buying locally and\/or handmade.  And her reuse-the-bag project is interesting, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn: when do you succumb to the draw of the bright lights and endless rows of displays, and when do you run in the opposite direction?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a woman who needs to make a significant portion of her income on this weaving and jewelry business, I am truly thankful for the people from hundreds or thousands of miles away who buy my products from my website. <\/p>\n<p>But as a member of a small, rural area, I can&#8217;t emphasize enough the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}