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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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So, although this holiday season’s Black Friday deals may be tempting, consider shopping smaller than the S&P 500 and put money back into local economies by supporting small businesses. And thus in 2014, mumi was formed. In 2020, U.S. consumers spent $6.3 Number of employees: 4 Based in: Seattle. Photo by @maximova.ta/Twenty20.

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Meet the Christmas Tree Farmers Keeping the Spirit of Christmas Alive

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It’s a scene straight out of a holiday movie: A family travels to an idyllic farm to cut down their own Christmas tree and spends the day walking the rows, making wreaths and sipping hot cocoa. Come high summer, around July, farmers are in the fields pruning trees by hand to shape the conifers into the perfect Christmas-tree form.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. This trip was part birthday gift, part Christmas escape, part Florida homecoming. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party.

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The 2013 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

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This year I decided to offer holiday shoppers a bit more time to explore possible gift ideas for the productivity enthusiast — aka the "productivityist" — in their lives. The Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide for 2013 may be a long read, but it may just spark some gift ideas you hadn''t considered. SodaStream.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Two days later, the sleepy, snappy malaise that hovered over our house like some gray beast was gone, and holiday joy had returned. Gratitude log 24: While the journaling exercise eventually made my heart grow a few sizes and gave me a greater appreciation for my many gifts, it apparently did so with about the same power as caffeine.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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A welcome break in the 24-hour news cycle came one morning in the form of an announcement from NASA. With a natural gift for storytelling, her presentations weave humor, wit and grace into powerful messages about acceptance and tolerance. “I I feel like I’m doing something more than just Christmas gifts,” said Rydzy.

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Using Gaming To Be Productive

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All of these are things that can be very scarce when you lead the lifestyle I do. Then, on the 27th, I set it up and sat down to enjoy my gift. One of these I could readily explain, owing to the fact that I was on my holidays and watching my daily Lynda.com video simply wasn’t the appropriate use of my time.

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