#SmallBusinessSaturday

When you shop local you are contributing to a someone's story - to their dreams - to their livelihood. And you are contributing to the story - the dream - and the livelihood of your community. When you shop big box you are contributing to some CEO's overblown salary, or in some cases the cycle of poverty due to low employee wages, and the lack of community.

Local business owners are varied in their income levels but every penny they do earn stays in their communities which helps. We all have to work together to keep our communities strong, relevant, and healthy and if we aren't a local business owner the very least we can do to contribute is be a consumer at our community local businesses.

So shop local and help your community write its story.

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Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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