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How shopping locally enhances our community!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
We are celebrating Small Business Saturday at Treehouse Gift & Home with 3 Specials! Save 30% OFF Vera Bradley, 20% OFF Christmas Florals: picks, wreaths, & garlands, & 60% OFF Fall!
So what does shopping locally really do for our community? Fun Fact First: A 2004 Civic Economics study found that $68 of every $100 spent at an independent community business stayed in the local economy, compared to $43 of every $100 spent at a chain store.
I will give you the 10 reasons to always shop locally according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, www.HometownAdvantage.org:
10. Jobs & Wages: Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors provide better wages and benefits than chain stores do.
9. Keeping Dollars in the Local Community: Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the community as a whole.
8. Local Decision Making: Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
7. Entrepreneurship fuels America's economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
6. Environmental Sustainability: Local stores help to sustain vibrant compact, walk-able town centers, which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
5. Product Diversity: A multitude of small businesses each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
4. Community Well-Being: Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
3. Local Character & Prosperity: In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses & distinctive character have an economic advantage.
2. Competition: A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
1. Public Benefits and Costs: Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
So this Saturday, you will have more reasons than ever to shop locally. You may even find it's contagious!
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How shopping locally enhances our community!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
We are celebrating Small Business Saturday at Treehouse Gift & Home with 3 Specials! Save 30% OFF Vera Bradley, 20% OFF Christmas Florals: picks, wreaths, & garlands, & 60% OFF Fall!
So what does shopping locally really do for our community? Fun Fact First: A 2004 Civic Economics study found that $68 of every $100 spent at an independent community business stayed in the local economy, compared to $43 of every $100 spent at a chain store.
I will give you the 10 reasons to always shop locally according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, www.HometownAdvantage.org:
10. Jobs & Wages: Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors provide better wages and benefits than chain stores do.
9. Keeping Dollars in the Local Community: Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the community as a whole.
8. Local Decision Making: Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
7. Entrepreneurship fuels America's economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
6. Environmental Sustainability: Local stores help to sustain vibrant compact, walk-able town centers, which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
5. Product Diversity: A multitude of small businesses each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
4. Community Well-Being: Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
3. Local Character & Prosperity: In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses & distinctive character have an economic advantage.
2. Competition: A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
1. Public Benefits and Costs: Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
So this Saturday, you will have more reasons than ever to shop locally. You may even find it's contagious!
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Black Friday Sale!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
Join us Black Friday for Savings! Look at all the ways to save!
- 1st 50 Guests Receive a FREE Gift!
- 30% off All Vera Bradley Through the Tuesday after Thanksgiving!
- Snowman Wreath at only $19.99 Friday Only! Originally $39.99.
- Buy One Lampe Berger Lamp and Fuel, Get One Fuel FREE! A $20 Value Free! Clean & Scent your air this Christmas!
- Advent Calendar at only $14.99, originally $19.99.
- Butter bells all for only $19.99, originally $29.99.
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Black Friday Sale!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
Join us Black Friday for Savings! Look at all the ways to save!
- 1st 50 Guests Receive a FREE Gift!
- 30% off All Vera Bradley Through the Tuesday after Thanksgiving!
- Snowman Wreath at only $19.99 Friday Only! Originally $39.99.
- Buy One Lampe Berger Lamp and Fuel, Get One Fuel FREE! A $20 Value Free! Clean & Scent your air this Christmas!
- Advent Calendar at only $14.99, originally $19.99.
- Butter bells all for only $19.99, originally $29.99.
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Time to Give Thanks!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
Thanksgiving always gives us that reminder to say thanks this time of year and always. We are so grateful to our friends and neighbors of Treehouse for welcoming us back to the community. We pray you and your families are blessed this Thanksgiving with faith, love, and abundant joy!
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Time to Give Thanks!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
Thanksgiving always gives us that reminder to say thanks this time of year and always. We are so grateful to our friends and neighbors of Treehouse for welcoming us back to the community. We pray you and your families are blessed this Thanksgiving with faith, love, and abundant joy!
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Coffee with the Artist: Dave & Judy Meyer
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
November 24th: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Join us for Coffee with the Artist: Dave & Judy Meyer! Come hear Dave play the guitar, and ask how he started turning Wooden Vases by Upcycling Christmas Trees! Dave has been blessed with many talents. He designs bird houses from gourds, and he makes custom walking sticks, canes, wooden centerpiece risers, utensil and pencil holders and more! So come support the local artists Dave and Judy while enjoying the music and free coffee at the Treehouse November 24th from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Coffee with the Artist!
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Coffee with the Artist: Dave & Judy Meyer
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
November 24th: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Join us for Coffee with the Artist: Dave & Judy Meyer! Come hear Dave play the guitar, and ask how he started turning Wooden Vases by Upcycling Christmas Trees! Dave has been blessed with many talents. He designs bird houses from gourds, and he makes custom walking sticks, canes, wooden centerpiece risers, utensil and pencil holders and more! So come support the local artists Dave and Judy while enjoying the music and free coffee at the Treehouse November 24th from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Coffee with the Artist!
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Personalization Trend Alert!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
We are jumping on the personalization bandwagon! Come see the ways you may personalize ornaments and wall hangings this Christmas.
"I personally feel whenever you can add that personal touch to a gift, the recipent really feels blessed knowing the giver took the time to think of their family. And, every time they glance at the gift, they are reminded of their family." - Cassandra Birdd
Treehouse Gift & Home has two Wooden Art Wall Hangings that may be personalized in store. One features a Red Truck Hauling a Christmas Tree as pictured. It may be personalized with the Last Name, Year, and Names of Family Members. Treehouse also carries a similar style featuring a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree with personalization options for family names on the gifts under the tree. Personalize this Art for your wall or as a Christmas gift today!
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Personalization Trend Alert!
Posted by Cassandra Birdd on
We are jumping on the personalization bandwagon! Come see the ways you may personalize ornaments and wall hangings this Christmas.
"I personally feel whenever you can add that personal touch to a gift, the recipent really feels blessed knowing the giver took the time to think of their family. And, every time they glance at the gift, they are reminded of their family." - Cassandra Birdd
Treehouse Gift & Home has two Wooden Art Wall Hangings that may be personalized in store. One features a Red Truck Hauling a Christmas Tree as pictured. It may be personalized with the Last Name, Year, and Names of Family Members. Treehouse also carries a similar style featuring a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree with personalization options for family names on the gifts under the tree. Personalize this Art for your wall or as a Christmas gift today!