American Made Christmas Shopping: the People’s Stimulus Package

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ABC World News with Diane Sawyer’s “Made in America” series has continued far past the coverage Manchester Wood received as one of the “Made in USA” companies that supplied products towards the renovating of a Dallas home earlier this year with all American made items.

This holiday season they have taken an in-depth look at what Americans can do to help our domestic economy as we shop for gifts this Christmas.

A few interesting facts they discovered:

In the 1960s, nine out of every 10 products Americans bought for the holidays were made in America. Today easily more than half of what we buy is foreign-made.

If Americans spent $64 this holiday on an item made in America, we could create 200,000 jobs right now.

If it still sounds like a decent chunk of change consider that the average American spends $700 on Christmas or holiday gifts.

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We believe wholeheartedly in this work above as they research the issues and discover the solutions towards a recovering economy. As we discussed in our previous blog, “The Gift That Keeps Giving: The Holidays for Manchester Wood,” the Christmas season to us a symbol of Gratitude and thanks for the gifts bestowed upon us.

In buying our American made solid wood furniture you can contribute the support of double to six-times the efforts they found! You can truly help stimulate American business, help get more people back to work, and not only feel good about that, but also that you have an heirloom quality item that you’ll proudly display and use, not a cheap throw-away, but something handcrafted with pride.

Buy furniture from Manchester Wood today. Let’s create jobs instead of losing them. Give the gift that keeps giving.

Happy holidays from all of us at Manchester Wood, God bless you.

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To view our online catalog, click here.

To view the ABC World News “Made in America” series facts discussed in this blog, click here.

Manchester Wood in ABC World News’ Remodeled Dallas Home!

Check out our Tall Double Jelly Cabinet on ABC World News’ remodeled Home in Dallas! http://abcnews.go.com/WN/fullpage?id=13001236 – go to Living Room, 2nd view! Or see below…

Manchester Wood on ABC World News!?

It was starting to happen long before this latest call.
After years of small American manufacturers (including ourselves) pleading with big executives and buyers at large corporations it’s slowly beginning to take shape in a positive direction for the American small business owner. A dire situation still exists for most, but a hope for the future continues to look brighter.
At Manchester Wood, our present business dealings and those future proposed, shine in optimism. We’re starting to see results that leave us giving thanks.

Our Tall Double Jelly Cabinet in Golden Oak Finish

ABC World News with Diane Sawyer is running a series the last week of this month (February) on a home remodeling using solely American made products, and Manchester Wood has one of those featured products! (shhh! …It’s our Tall Double Jelly Cabinet in Chestnut Finish ; )

This news is not only exciting for our small shop, but it brings up a greater awareness to the American people on helping your fellow man, and not to mention, enjoying (hopefully), a quality made product.

There are lots examples of people slowly spotlighting American made products, even some large corporations are starting to, as well as blogs like Americansworking.com or StillmadeinUSA.com. We try to support with our own twitter account – @americancrafted, which we manage and tweet on fellow domestic producers.

BUT, with all that said, not many major media sources have spotlighted this topic, at all. We hope it continues and spreads all over this beautiful land we call home.

Thank you to our loyal customers, those old and new, ABC for running this program, and all the good people putting up the good fight. To view our Tall Double Jelly Cabinet that was selected by World News with Diane Sawyer, click here.