How far does your 'shop locally' ethic go? My new employer's daughter is a high school sophomore that is an amazingly artistic kid. She wants to some acrylic paints for Christmas and Mom is not willing to buy them on line. There's a local store that stocks a small amount of art supplies.... Overpriced and very little variety (in my opinion). I mentioned Dick Blick to Mom but she was pretty firm about shopping locally. She did ask about shipping so maybe she'll relent.
I have been buying my art supplies from Dick Blick about 30 years, ever since my mom showed me their catalog. To me fresh paints and high quality brushes are more important than keeping a local store owner in the business of selling a few tubes now and then. If he were running an art store, I'd feel differently but it's an office supply variety store where a 10 dollar calculator costs 30 bucks.
More photos and less musing soon, I promise.
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I prefer to shop locally, but if there's something specific that I want and it's not around, then I don't have a problem with shopping online.
I'm with Vampi, ditto. I looked everywhere for a local source of organic soybeans and good quality magnesium chloride but had to order the mgcl2 from Sydney and the soybeans from Tas. But at least they are both Aussie. It's for tofu making, btw.
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