3/50 Project

Now this is a New Year's resolution worth keeping. The 3/50 Project is the brain-child of Cinda Baxter. If you go to her website, www.the350project.net, you can read how one person made a change and a big one at that. Here are the basic steps:

3 Pick 3 independent, locally-owned businesses that you would hate to see go away and visit them. Your purchases keep their doors open.

50 Spend $50 a month at those stores. Again I'm not going into the details, check those out for yourself.

68 For every $100 you spend, the locally owned retailer puts $68 back into their community. National retailers only put back $43. And online stores put nothing back into your local economy.

1 It only takes one person to make a difference.