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Holidays: Make them special for your relatives

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on November 25, 2008| 1 Comment »

santabuckA continuation of our series on how the upcoming holidays can be special without slaying your family’s budget. While not all the ideas below are (more…)

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OOOHHH, let’s go GREEN… by buying more STUFF

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged on February 18, 2008| 2 Comments »

Doesn’t it strike anyone else that “going green” usually involves buying more stuff, the manufacture of which is the antithesis of ecology? Do you see the irony? Go green… by buying stuff from me (and BTW, made in China, full of polluting inks and other disastrous elements, shipping across the globe making more pollution… the possibilities BOGGLE the mind.)

Take, for example, the “reusable” shopping/grocery/tote bag. Here’s the text from the first 4 sites that I got while Googling:

  • As part of the solution our store features a wide range of reusable shopping bags and other innovative, practical products all designed to help people consume less
  • Our handpicked selection represents …a wide range of styles.
  • So far, [name deleted because I don’t want you to buy their, or anyone else’s, stuff thinking that you will therefore be using less stuff] has sold over 2,381,111 reusable bags
  • We exist to provide products….that help people reduce, re-use and recycle

Take a look at those “not a bag” “neither” bags. What costs did the environment pay to make this [expletive deleted] stuff?

Well, fortunately, my buddies in the consignment, resale, and thrift industry could have the solution…and a fund-raiser and a great PR angle…at their fingertips. A way to cut usage of one-time plastic or paper bags WITHOUT causing the environment to shudder once more at the solutions that short-sighted consumers think up. Read about it here.

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Such gay holiday wrappings… such disgusting trash!

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on December 19, 2007| 10 Comments »

So, it’s almost Christmas. You just have to run out and get some colorful paper, some ribbon, those cute little name tags and some tape to wrap everything up, right?

xmas trash

Graphic from http://winnipeg.ca/

So your gifts will look pretty under the tree…until an hour later, when you haul all of those paper wrappings out to the trash. Merry Christmas, Trash Heap!

Tell the Earth Merry Christmas at the same time as celebrating your loved ones… by PRE-cycling. What’s precycling, and what does it have to do with giving gifts? Read about it on HowToConsign.com . Don’t create The Nightmare After Christmas. There’s better ways to present gifts than using dye-heavy paper, made of trees and chemicals and shipped around the world only to be regulated to the garbage within minutes.

Happy waste-less gift-giving to you, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren!

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