On today’s Hip Slope Mama blog, Mark Caserta of 3r Living—a shop selling all kinds of ernviro gifty things like this $36 sushi set—asks Brooklynites to participate in the 3/50 project, where you pledge to spend $50 a month at each of three independently owned business you really like.
Otherwise, it’s going to be curtains for a lot of them, he writes. Of course, local vs. chain shopping is a perennial dilemma for the cheapskate, and never more than now. Read the rest of this entry »
