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December 22, 2022
Faith

Faith Friday: Thinking about Christmas

Part 2 The celebration of Christmas is unlike anything else. All of us are impacted by it. The birth of Jesus, God coming to earth as a baby, is the most incredible true story ever conceived. Mixed in with the celebration, we’re often wrapped up with gift buying, party planning, family events, concerts and many other activities. It can be a crazy time of year for sure. I pray your Christmas will be full of joy as you celebrate the greatest gift ever given. If you have children in your

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Steve Swanson December 22, 2022 No Comments
Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Christmas games can be fun – and competitive – for the whole family

Finding ways to create holiday fun and games are some of my favorite things to do at Christmas. As a parent of only adult kids, it looks different than it did when they were younger. Since you still have a few days left to make some Christmas memories, I thought I’d share a few ideas we find fun! First off, we are a very competitive family! So we like to make sure there are winners and of course losers! Losers get nothing, but we give good prizes to the winners.

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Shawna Woodward, Re/Max Reinvented Evans December 22, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Big business: The 25 top grossing Christmas films

Christmas vacation is a great time to download a movie or pop in a DVD (or, if you’re really behind the times, a VHS tape) – especially this year, as the weather makes staying inside seem prudent. It’s also often a good time for movie producers to lure people to the theaters. Christmas movies are big business, both at the box office when they’re released and later as they’re shown ad infinitum on cable channels. There are a number of lists online of the top-grossing Christmas movies, all with varying

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Gary Kauffman December 22, 2022 1 Comment
B2B Stories

Downtown businesses participate in decorations crawl, voting ends tonight

When Brandy Gibson relocated her business from Monte Sano Avenue to Broad Street last year, she fell in love with the new location’s storefront windows. Gibson, owner of Tiffinie Bleu Bridal Boutique (pictured above) located at 1251 Broad St., is one of 32 business owners participating in the fourth annual Making Spirits Bright Downtown Décor Crawl, a month-long event sponsored by the Downtown Development Authority of Augusta and Augusta & Co. “I decorate them every year, so when I found out about the crawl, it gave me another reason to

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Josh Heath December 22, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

The business of Christmas: Americans spend billions each year

In the 1960s, both the Charlie Brown and the Grinch TV specials forewarned about the growing commercialization of Christmas. Despite their warnings, Christmas has become big business in the United States. Here are just a few facts about the business side of Christmas. • Christmas tree farms sell 25-30 million real trees each year – in 2018, it was 32 million, accounting for about $6.1 billion in sales. The states producing the most Christmas trees are Oregon, North Carolina and Michigan, but there are Christmas tree farms in every state.

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Gary Kauffman December 22, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Ebenezer Scrooge still provides lessons for modern-day business owners

Each year around this time, one of the world’s wealthiest fictional characters receives a lot of attention. That, of course, is Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly and bitter character created by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol and retold in a number of movie versions. But just how wealthy was Scrooge and how did he earn all that money? Dickens’ novel, published in 1843, doesn’t say for certain, but obviously Scrooge was extraordinarily wealthy for the time period. Various people have ventured guesses at Scrooge’s wealth. Forbes listed him as the

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Gary Kauffman December 22, 2022 No Comments