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Last Minute Atlanta Gift Guide
Last Minute Atlanta Gift Guide

Gifts can be tricky. You want to offer something that is useful, thoughtful, desirable, unique, and personal. But year after year, it can be difficult to capture all that is in your heart to share in one item for each person on your list. This quick list is one that includes actual items I have gifted (or am gifting this year) that are at or under $50. I am including the price and where to find it in Atlanta.

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Community, FamilyRachelle Wilsonatlanta, gifting, shop local, posman books, brave and kind bookshop, love train antiques, adelina social goods, the works, winterborn alpaca, christkindlmarket, level up games, ann mashburn, star provisions, handmade, crates atlanta, downtown atlantaComment
Economy of Choice
Economy of Choice

In my very first Econ class in undergrad, the professor asked us what economics was about. “Money,” we answered. We were wrong. “Everyone thinks economics is about money,” he said, “but it’s not. Economics is about choices. Choices are what drive economies, not prices.”

That lesson marked the foundation of my economics major. And he was right. The price is often the last piece in the puzzle, not the first.

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Rachelle Wilsonamazon, Tim bray, covid-19, economics, choices, local, shop local, shop small, local love boxComment