Before You Buy

When purchasing items, do you look at the labels? Do you take into account things like where the item is made, how is it made and who has manufactured the product? Do you buy locally? How does your local economy, people in your province, state or country count? How much impact can a small item have on your local economy whether the item costs one dollar or a thousand dollars? How many people are employed locally? How many spin off businesses are affected by your buying decisions? How much impact does your money have in and on your local economy when it is cycled from business to business and person to person? If we all looked at the labels and made a conscious effort to purchase local product before buying imported product how many people would be working full time or part time? If each province, state or country has five hundred thousand to a million people residing there, and we made a conscious effort to look at labels, and spend that couple of dollars from our weekly budgets on local produce and goods, it is mind boggling what effects a local $1.00 purchase has.

Remember - take a tree not a forest!