We’ve been strolling downtown Glen Ellyn a lot lately, watching the Christmas tree rise up in the square, seeing garland strung in store windows, hearing holiday tunes wafting out from the coffee shop. There’s a chill in the air, but the village and all its businesses are giving off all the warm, fuzzy holiday vibes. We really love this town.
We’ll all be hearing quite a bit about Small Business Saturday this weekend. As local small business owners, we are grateful for this focus on what we bring to the holiday shopping season. But we hope you will also remember your favorite small businesses year round. Local communities are more important than ever. We banded together to help each other through some pretty difficult years, but the work is not done. Small businesses are the engines of our local economies. When you set aside a portion of your shopping for your local businesses, you are contributing to vibrant, healthy downtown areas, and helping provide jobs to those in your community.
So, today, we want to encourage you to take a walk around your own local community and visit some of your favorite small businesses. Like us, we suspect those shops have put a lot of thought into what to offer this holiday shopping season, and you’re likely to find one-of-a-kind gifts not available elsewhere. If you’re local to Glen Ellyn, we’ll look for you at some of our favorite local business in this, our adopted hometown. We love this community so much, and we hope you’ll commit with us to supporting these and the other small businesses that make our communities (and yours!) so special.
And, of course, we’ll hope to see you at Collected this weekend, and throughout the coming year. Our Black Friday sale runs on select items through Monday, on goodies ranging from holiday gifts (we have them for all the people on your list!) to holiday decor to year-round home essentials.
We’ll see you soon!
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