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The Tip is 'Don't procrastinate' For years I've been buying ink jet cartridges from a big box office supply store. These cartridges were made overseas and labeled with the well-known brand of a large American printer company. One I remembered a local store that advertised quality cartridges. I had traveled by this local store hundreds of times but never stopped. This time I stopped at the local store. To my surprise I discovered that they carried the cartridge I needed and it was a Made in USA cartridge. Made in Chicago, to be precise, and it was half the price of the imported ones I had been buying for years. The quality is exceptional and they last longer too. Who knew? After that experience, I make a point to stop at every store I can. By doing so, I've been finding more and more Made in America products. Occasionally the clerks don't know the country of origin; this can be discouraging but finding the origin information yourself isn't difficult I've come to realize. Believe it not, there are actually a number of computers made in the US including laptops made in the USA. When the label is not visibly displayed I use the other Made in America buying tips to help me find Made in US. If the store doesn't carry what you are looking for, use Made in America Secrets to find it and tell the manager about your experience at their store. If enough people are asking for Made in America products stores will begin to carry them. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Thunderlilly Clare Tattersall: Founder, CEO Fashion insider and brand curator, Clare Tattersall channels her passion for fashion into finding outstanding emerging designers and bringing their ideas to market. With her inside knowledge of NYC's garment district and a knack for bringing together the most talented people, Clare is spearheading ThunderLily NYC, a virtual fashion incubator ? creating cutting edge software for designers and providing stylish women with access to custom made fashion from the most innovative designers of the future. ThunderLily was founded in 2009 with a mission to Set Fashion Free. From sketch to market ? we launch emerging designers, with our fashion design software and partnership with Columbia University we offer the most cutting edge technology for designing and producing samples in the virtual space. ABOUT YOU Who we are is so much less important than who YOU are. YOU have stepped off the beaten path of the established fashion industry. You like to be INVOLVED in fashion. You want to be involved, you can see that by being independent you can be more CREATIVE, you want to offer your creativity to discerning shoppers, you want to be a STYLE LEADER, an ENTREPRENEUR, to SHARE, CREATE, BUILD. We want to build a space where your PASSION can come to LIFE, where designers are in charge of pushing their VISIONS to market, where FASHION LOVERS can be involved in the fashion creation from the early workshop days to the final product. We believe that by opening the doors to everyone a better industry will emerge. It's a lot for a small company but nothing that we cannot build together as a community so we are reaching out for your next move. |
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