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uplifting of spirits, too, by being conscientious about where you spend your Christmas cash. We’re not talking charity, we’re talking about giving the local economy a well-earned boost
Spend your money at a locally owned shop, and the money chums in the local economy, in wages, in taxes for local coffers, in money in the pocket of your neighbors and friends.
Studies demonstrate that some 80 percent of money spent in a mom-and-pop stays in the neighboring economy. Locally spent money generates anywhere from two to four times the economic activity of the same spending in a big-box, since so relatively little of the money
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