The first Thousand Buck Thursday is here! Please use comments below to post about what you bought, where you bought it, and how much you spent. Be as exact and descriptive as possible! Also, anonymous comments are accepted, but first name / last initial is even better.
Thanks for participating and making a real difference in our community of businesses. It's up to us to put our money where our mouths are. Click here to visit Network Dearborn to search for a product or service to meet your specific needs today. Let's get to $1,000 today!
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Pioneer Dry Cleaning on Outer Drive. $8.12
Dearborn Farm Market (fruit/veggies) $10.60
Westborn Fruit Market: Fruit, cheese,deli items, wine and beer for $120.00. --wine gets you everytime!
Not too exciting but.. Starbucks with my girlfriend, 5.70. Going out tonight, will post that too.
Awesome lunch at Matis $8.75
Transferred from other blog post: "I started this morning at a BNI meeting at Leon's on Michigan Avenue for breakfast - $6.74" - PostNet Dearborn
I'll be spending about $10-12 at the Wendy's on Ford Road today & maybe $3 at the Marathon on Ford for a Red Bull!
Andrea at Lord and Lady $70.00, Pets Plus $35.55 and Westborn Market $15.35. I'm going to Yvette's house.
$5.49 At Gonella's for lunch, will post more later!
Pizza Papalis $6.72. I wish I could count yesterday because I spent about $1,000 at Jack's Bicycle.
Started at Monroe Bakery, 1 lb of cookies & a pop - 3.24
The New Mercury Restaurant for breakfast with hubby - 15.00 (incl. tip)
Pet Supplies Plus (usually go to Meijers) Kitty litter - 9.52
DFCU - withdrawal $40 (not sure if this counts, but it is a Dearborn business!)
Staples in Westborn mall - copies and ink - 25.39
Dearborn Animal Shelter to drop off the cookies we bought! Thanks to those who do such great work in Dearborn!
Then to 7-Eleven on Greenfield & Rotunda (I think) for slurpees - 2.95
I told all the clerks what we were doing and gave them my business card w/Avon book - on the back of my card I wrote "Support Dearborn Businesses - Thousand Buck Thursday - www.networkdearborn.com"
Kathleen, that's awesome! Kristina, too bad, but sounds like you got a great bike, so good for you.
Monroe Bakery...11 dollars and some change
Starburst, $0.99 at the gas station on Michigan Ave. and Mason. I brought my lunch but needed some sugar for the afternoon! I spent more Tuesday, before I knew about this game.
I'm counting around $376 so far.
The only place I needed to shop today was at Kroger (Michigan Ave. & Outer Dr. - N side). Spent $62.76 on (not surprisingly) groceries. Just some things for the next couple of days. I'll be back there to spend more on Saturday! :)
I already know I'm going to Oxford lanes tonight for Thirsty Thursdays. $1.29 domestic draft beer (should be a couple right there) $1.29 per game, $1.29 shoe rental. Who knows what else. Lets say 8 bucks.
$28 for my first pedicure of the season at Dearborn Nails!
$45.00 @ Om Spa, for a much needed pedicure <3
I forgot, $15.00 @ Capri Bakery!
Add another $20 for gas at Eagle Oil on Michigan Ave.
$20 at bartz bakery!
Lunch was a0 delicious orange roll (sushi), fresh avacado and sweet ripe rasberries from Westborn market. A healthy nutrious lunch for $9. May have ti return for one of those scrumptious salads tomorrow.
I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but this is pretty lame. Most of this money would've been spent in Dearborn wether you had people post it here of not. This is just an excercise of "Hey golly gee, we're blogging about how much we spent in Dearborn one day a month." Big deal.
If you want to make a real difference and show support for local businesses, have people pick two or three businesses and commit to spending $100 there a month. Not just write about where they spent money on one randomly chosen day. Someone spends 99 cents on Starburst that they probably would've bought anyway is supposed to be some sort of victory for local business? $10 at Wendy's? Someone else happens to pick up their laundry today and that's supposed to help Dearborn's economy how? It doesn't.
Like I said, people should pick 2 or 3 businesses a month (that they normally don't always shop at, but that they like) and commit to spending $100 there. That's how you support local businesses and keep local businesses open.
This "$1000 Thursdays" will do as much good as those one-day gas boycotts did a few years ago. In other words, it won't make one bit of difference.
I appreciate that you and everyone here wants to help Dearborn's economy, as I desperately do, but this is just an empty display.
Thanks everyone! We fell short of the $1,000 but of course, this event's concept is barely 1 week old. We will continue to promote it leading up to the 3rd Thursday in April for the next Thousand Buck Thursday. PD, thanks for the sincere thoughts but of course some effort is better than none at all in my opinion. I encourage you to go ahead and organize the promotion you're referring to, send me an email, and I will be happy to support your efforts!
PD, just thought I'd let you know that the purchases that I made, while small (since I am unemployed!) were PURPOSEFULLY made in Dearborn. I visited the bakery and restaurant - never been to either before. I also drove home from Belleville on less than a quarter tank, JUST to fill up in Dearborn.
It did open my eyes as to just how much of my money I'm taking to other cities. I didn't realize how much I just go up to AP to shop! Why? When I have perfectly wonderful Dearborn stores right here!
So, I just wanted you to know that while I'm only 1, it DID affect me and will change my shopping habits.
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