Vermont Woods Studios » brattleboro farmers market http://vermontfurnitureblog.com Fine American Made Solid Wood Furniture Handmade & Custom Crafted in Vermont Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:35:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Join Our “Buy American Made” Holiday Shopping Challenge http://vermontfurnitureblog.com/buy-american-made-christmas-gifts-vermont-made-buy-local/ http://vermontfurnitureblog.com/buy-american-made-christmas-gifts-vermont-made-buy-local/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:15:15 +0000 Peggy Farabaugh http://vermontfurnitureblog.com/?p=350 I'm really not an early Christmas shopper.  In fact I'm not a shopper at all.  When the kids were little they used to like to holiday shop at the local craft fair… that was fun.  But the boys are teenagers now and I can't imagine getting them to do that anymore.  A couple times in [...]

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]]> American-made-holiday-gifts I'm really not an early Christmas shopper.  In fact I'm not a shopper at all.  When the kids were little they used to like to holiday shop at the local craft fair… that was fun.  But the boys are teenagers now and I can't imagine getting them to do that anymore.  A couple times in recent years, I was able to convince Ken and the boys to make an overnight holiday shopping trip to Boston where we wandered around downtown and at the Wrentham Mall picking up a few gifts. I enjoyed that but the kids seem to have outgrown any kind of activity that involves parents.

 

 

Anyway… yesterday in the office, Dennis floated the idea of buying only American made things for Christmas presents.  Pretty cool idea, don't you think? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brattleboro-farmers-market But the thing is, this is shopping we can't leave till the last minute.  It will take a bit of research and planning.  Isn't it ironic that many American made gifts would have to be purchased online and shipped here from across the country, whereas imports are available anytime, in every store in town, at a moment's notice?

So at Vermont Woods Studios we'll plan to start our shopping now and share our research with you as we go.  Saturday I tagged along with Annette at the Brattleboro Farmer's Market.  That's probably a reasonable place to start… maple syrup, handmade pottery, wooden bowls. 

Why not join us in our "Buy American Made" Holiday Gifts Challenge?  If you have gift suggestions, pass them along in the comment section below or send photos and links and we'll post here or on our Facebook page.

They say that if each of us in the USA spent just $3.33 on American made goods, that would generate 10,000 jobs… a pretty decent Christmas present in itself, I say.

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