1. This past Sunday was birthday party prep day at my son’s so we both spent the afternoon helping to make decorations. The soon to be 2 year old is really into the Moana movie so they built a boat to walk through and we made waves to decorate it. Her party is Moana themed and they have fun creating these events for family and friends at their home.
2. Our other son and DIL arrived last night and will be in town over the weekend which doubles the fun and family time.
3. I’ve decided one small thing we can do in protest to our current President’s actions is to stop shopping to the extent we can at businesses that primarily supported his campaign, have cancelled DEI initiatives, and/or do other terrible things. We don’t shop much, but of course we do shop.
I’ve been doing some research and finding better, although not perfect, alternatives to most of what we buy at Amazon, Whole Foods, and Target. Trader Joe’s is going to be harder but I’m going to try to reduce it. Also hard is that my library ebooks go through Amazon and I don’t think I can change that.
4. I decided to schedule both grooming for the dog and my haircuts a couple of weeks further apart than I have been doing. That should eliminate one a year for each of us for savings without any problems.
5. I’ve found two local businesses that have small jazz groups once a month and want to try them. One is an independent bookstore and the other is an employee owned natural foods store and restaurant. There also is a local mall symphony that performs occasionally to try.
Bookstores and jazz? How perfect!
ReplyDeleteFebruary 28 is being touted as a "No Spend" day to have an effect on the economy.
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DeleteTo clumsy on the keyboard before! I hadn't heard about Feb 28th but will look into it.
DeleteI am trying to shop only Canadian items and boy it can be difficult. Especially as about 6 months of the year we have to rely on produce and fruit from other countries. Books and Jazz how wonderful.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Thank you so much for posting about shopping. We only have 2 grocery options locally (7 miles rather than driving 20 miles into the city); because of your post I researched what kind of contributions they made in the last election process. My favorite grocer donated to both presidential candidates, but donated twice as much to Harris, and in state races donated to all candidates that would have been my choice and none on the other side. That makes me feel happy and better informed. I'm implementing a little resistance plan of my own.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to have a clear choice that you also like!
DeleteI've done pretty good not clicking on amazon. I forgot that whole foods is part of that but I have only been in that store twice. It's too expensive mostly but just out of my loop. Target, I didnt know about and I do go in there sometimes. Mostly though it's winco, and Costco and TJ's.
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy an eveing of jazz very soon. We need pictures of the Moana-themed decorations. I know your granddarling was thrilled.
ReplyDeleteWe really have few grocery shopping choices on the side of town where we live. Walmart and Albertson's - which is pretty expensive. My daughter in Ft. Worth shops for select things at Trader Joe's. Wish we had that option. We do have Whole Foods but it is high and 20 miles across town. Seems like groceries are just terribly expensive right now. Hope by summer, we have some relief.
With Paul retired military and retired government service, he tells all kinds of stories of waste and unneeded employees. In his office, he would come home telling how this one watched YouTube movies all day, that one napped at his desk, and 2 of them never returned to the office after Covid, for no good reason. Would breeze in once in awhile but not to get anything done. What we don't understand is why the military doesn't do the work for the military. For example, why are there civilian cooks in the mess halls when there is an MOS/military specialty for cook. Why do we have civilians checking IDs at the gates when we have military police? Hope some of that will be addressed.