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The Brag Basket works best when you actually put your good news into it

By Small Biz Survival

Basket lavender. Photo CC by Couleur Lavande

The Brag Basket works best when you actually put your good news into it. Photo CC by Couleur Lavande.

 

The Brag Basket is open! This one is for May 20-22, 2016. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone.

What can you share in the Brag Basket?

  • introduce yourself
  • share some great news from this week
  • celebrate progress, even baby steps
  • congratulate a friend
  • applaud for each other
  • confess your undying love for rural places

How do you join in?

  • Below this post is the comment section. Add your good news there.
  • Reading this in your email? Hit reply.

Don’t like to brag? Just share some good news for someone you’re happy for. It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.

May 20, 2016 Filed Under: brag basket

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Comments

  1. Mary Van Den Berge says

    May 22, 2016 at 8:35 am

    Our small town in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada is having our main street dug up for water main replacement and repaving of street and sidewalks. Our downtown businesses have embraced this and looked at it as an opportunity to ‘think outside the box’. Check this out. http://www.ourperth.ca/news-story/6393579-back-door-beautification-and-other-downtown-construction-coping-strategies/
    I would love to share pictures of our back doors, or you can just check out #DigItStMarys on Facebook!

    • Becky McCray says

      May 22, 2016 at 12:01 pm

      Mary, I love the many different creative approaches your businesses are taking. Besides sprucing up back doors, they’ve working together to share entrances, cooperating, offering deliveries or making house calls. That’s the spirit!

  2. Small Biz Survival says

    May 22, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Freed Family Farm sent in their story by email:

    Freed Family Farm is a small grain and cattle farm that decided to diversify a few years ago. We first added a hoop house (unheated or cooled greenhouse) for growing vegetables and turned a few acres into a large garden using plasticulture. About 6 months later we added jellies using the herbs and peppers we were growing. A few months later we added handcrafted soaps and lotions. The craft show circuit had been keeping that part of the business busy.

    We just received word that we have been accepted as a vendor at An Affair of the Heart for our soaps, lotions and other body care products. We were accepted for all 6 shows in 3 locations. It is a great and exciting challenge. If you are curious about what we do, you can check us out at http://www.freedfamilyfarm.com

    • Becky McCray says

      May 22, 2016 at 12:02 pm

      Congratulations on all your successes, Freed Family! You’ve make a lot of progress in just a few years.

  3. Small Biz Survival says

    May 23, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    Carmen Rath-Wald, North Dakota State University Extension Service, sent this adorable brag by email:
    1st and 2nd graders planted vegetables at the Care Center in Gackle, North Dakota. Other elementary students planted flowers, both at the Care center and in planters at the school. Well done, kids!

    1st & 2nd graders planted at the Care Center:
    1st & 2nd graders planted at the Care Center. Photo courtesy of Carmen Rath-Wald, North Dakota State University Extension Service

    Kindergarten planters:
    Kindergarten planters. Photo courtesy of Carmen Rath-Wald, North Dakota State University Extension Service

    3rd & 4th girls planted flowers while the boys planted peas:
    3rd & 4th girls planted flowers while the boys planted peas. Photo courtesy of Carmen Rath-Wald, North Dakota State University Extension Service

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