design house inc blog

Do you know about the 3/50 Project? It is a “buy local” movement, and it means pick three, spend $50. This project asks consumers to think of three locally owned businesses that they would miss if they disappeared, and remember to frequent them. If just half the employed U.S. population were to commit $50 of their current monthly spending to local businesses, it would generate more than $42.6 billion of revenue annually. It certainly doesn’t advocate that people not shop at the big boxes; it just asks people to remember their local businesses and balance out their spending. This would apply to local, independently owned businesses, with no franchise or chain affiliations. Sometimes we forget, as we are racing around with our everyday business and errands, to look at the smaller ones in between the big boxes, and often they may have something different, with more personal service, and specially chosen for your area of the country, since they live there and know it better. Think of the ones you know and enjoy and don’t want to lose!
Connie LeFevre, ASID, RID