What’s that, still not enough saving? All right you asked for it, were giving away stuff for FREE!

22-Hour Special Fourth of July
Sales Spectacular

Friday 7/2/10 10:00 – 8:00
Saturday 7/3/10 10:00 – 5:00
Monday 7/5/10 11:00 – 4:00

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Memorial Day or Labor Day that got me thinking. Are we supposed to believe that Memorial Day or Labor Day Sales typically have bigger holidays sales than other annual holidays? What about after holiday sales? What are we doing living for the holidays?

Lets be realistic, just because a mattress or furniture store advertises that we’re saving a lot of money doesn’t necessarily mean that we are getting the absolute best price for that sale item. What about the other holiday sales Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and so forth? I think we need to step back from the hype and use common sense here and remember that stores have to pay rent and their mortgage all year long. So why would they have only a sale or two a year say Memorial Day or Labor Day that are big? What makes one or both of them the best savings day of the entire year? Should we really believe that better prices during one of those two days are better than an after Thanksgiving sale? Come on people they have us sold and snowed.

Retailers are smart and know that my wife would love to have her bedroom filled with something gorgeous for her birthday, anniversary, Mothers Day, or Valentines Day helping her convert that old bedroom into her personal sanctuary.  Perhaps retailers don’t think that a hard working laborers’ back deserves a new mattress? Do we really believe that mattress stores are really going to make him wait till Fathers Day before he can get one? What if he is not a father?

My point is this, great sales and discounts are available at various stores all through out the year. We would suggest before buying a mattress or furniture on a holiday that you shop to get the best price on an item you are interested in, in order to establish what it costs before the so called discount or sale. In addition never feel the pressure of an ending sale. Never get in a hurry and rush to close the deal because a sale ends today or Saturday and stop living for the holidays if you know what we mean? There are other holidays and there will be other sales.

Shopping tips:

·    Decide on what it is you want to buy before a sale.
·    Established base line price for that item.
·    Many stores use “suggested”, “retail” or “compare at” prices. These are ridiculous and seem to be inflated to start with so they can discount 50% or more for the “big sale”
·    Consider retail stores that use everyday low prices. Wal-Mart does this and they are the number one retail Department store.

365 days a year
Approximately 47 potential sales a year
What do retailers do for the other 318 days there are no holidays?

Holidays
1. New Year’s Day
2. College Football Championship Game
3. Martin Luther King Day
4. Groundhog Day
5. Super Bowl
6. Lincoln’s Birthday
7. St. Valentines Day
8. Presidents Day and Washington’s Birthday
9. Mardi Gras Carnival
10. Fat Tuesday
11. St. Patrick’s Day
12. Earth Hour
13. April Fool’s Day
14. Good Friday
15. Easter Sunday
16. Tax Day
17. Administrative Professionals Day or National Secretary’s Day
18. Earth Day
19. Kentucky Derby horse race
20. Cinco de Mayo
21. Mother’s Day
22. Armed Forces Day
23. Memorial Day
24. Flag Day
25. U.S. Open Golf Championship tournament
26. Father’s Day
27. July 4 Independence Day USA
28. Parents’ Day
29. Labor Day
30. Patriot Day (a.k.a. 9/11 or September 11th)
31. Grandparents’ Day
32. Step family Day
33. Citizenship Day
34. Native American Day
35. Columbus Day
36. Boss’s Day (National Bosses Day)
37. Halloween
38. Election Day
39. Veterans’ Day
40. Thanksgiving Day
41. Black Friday
42. Cyber Monday
43. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
44. Chanukah/Hanukkah
45. Christmas Day
46. Kwanzaa
47. New Year’s Eve

Here is the email we just received.

Welcome to the Better Business Bureau. Your membership packet will be mailed to you soon, and shortly you will begin to receive the BBB E-News.

As a special service to our members we send E-News with the latest tips and warnings, as well as news about upcoming seminars and special programs we have scheduled.

In 2007 the BBB will celebrate its 90th anniversary, so we have a full calendar of special events, new seminars and activities planned for our members, and E-News will keep you informed about all of these.

Congratulations on your decision to be among the 5200+ businesses in E. Missouri and S. Illinois that demonstrate their support and commitment to the highest business standards by being a BBB member.

Best regards,

Michelle L. Corey
President & CEO

We’ll keep you up to date when it becomes official. When we receive the OK we will proudly display the BBB symbol both on our showroom wall and the virtual wall of our STLBeds.com website.

In trying to put pen to paper and figure out what I could write for Mothers day, I discovered something someone wrote that went something like this

Oh brother, I forgot about Mothers Day.

I guess I’ll just have to deal with the guilt and all of her bit#%ing at me for not being there. I know it’s not right but I even offered to work just to steer clear of the whole family get together thing. They don’t need me at work, so now what should I do?

So then I started looking into other reasons people won’t see their mother for mothers day and here were just a few I came across:

• My mother hasn’t talked to me since ….
• I lost my mother in law last June to cancer she is the only person that treated me like their kid.
• My grandmother raised me; she is the definition of a mom.
• Dad says mom was the best person in the world and was a great mother, I never knew her and wished I could have had the chance to. I was too young to remember.
• My mom doesn’t live in the same city as me I miss her terribly.
• My mother annoys me all we do is fight when we get together.
• Mom has to work for Mothers Day I wish she didn’t have too.
• This will be the first Mothers Day without mom

These were just a few of the stories I read. All of them made me sad while making me think about my own relationship with my mom. I am now married and have my own family. I work with my father in our family furniture store and live fairly close to her.
 
Now the great thing about working for family is that I see my dad nearly everyday. The problem is that it seems I stay pretty on top of the day-to-day family happenings including those of my mom.

 
I love her dearly but don’t talk or visit as often as I should. I have often said the reason is because I don’t feel the need to find out what she is up to everyday since I’m usually brought up to speed through dad. Other times I guess for whatever reason I just don’t make the time. The stories I shared above were not stories I could relate too but to me were all very sad and are full of regret and sadness. I have no reason other than my own failure to pick up the phone or go visit my mom who is only a mere 20 minutes away. Maybe that is what Mothers Day might be all about to get kids like me off our butts.

Mothers Day is here so that I am reminded to remember and show appreciation for my mom Pam Belleville. So mom, even though I often fall short, way short of being the perfect son you always exceed being the perfect mom. Please take a moment to remember all of those kind of silly things that I did like come home with school drawings or make you breakfast on Mothers Day and while you reflect have a smile on me. Can’t wait to spend Mothers Day with you and the rest of the family down at the farm on Sunday.

I love you and Happy Mothers Day!
Doug

It’s Free and it’s where anyone and everyone will be that bleeds green. Even if you are doing what you can to make a difference, or just want to know how to get started this St. Louis green event is for you. It lasts two days and offers everyone who attends new ideas having to do with green services and products from exhibitors who are committed to attaining real sustainability in their fields.

Talk with experts and learn about the limitless options our St. Louis community of businesses and different organizations offer too assist each and every one of us in making constructive changes towards environmentally responsible lives.

Last year over 13,000 visitors attended Eco Expo 2009.

Bring the entire family and see Allied Wastes’ talking recycling bin and hear over 20 speaker sessions sponsored by the Missouri Botanical Garden & Earth Ways Center.

Green Event- Saint Louis Eco Expo 2010

Cost to attend is FREE so bring the entire family!

Time- April 10-11, 2010 9:30am-5:30 pm each day

Location- James S. McDonnell Planetarium, at the Saint Louis Science Center

Bike parking will be available

Who’s going to be exhibiting from Z-A for a change!

• World Bird Sanctuary
• Waterfurnace, Inc.
• Walter Knoll
• W.J. Deutsch & Sons, LTD Fine Wines
• Vatterott College
• Upper Limits Rock Climbing Gym & Pro Shop
• Universe Daylight Solutions
• U-Gas
• Tri-State Water Treatment, Inc.
• Trailnet
• Thomas Construction
• The CupcakerySTL Beds
• St. Louis Composting
• St. Louis Cardinals Green Team
• Solar Attic Blanket
• Renewal by Andersen
• Radio Disney
• Pure Power by AmerenUE
• Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562
• Owens Corning Living Solutions
• Onesto Pizza & Trattoria
• MSD
• Missouri Solar Living, LLC
• Missouri Department of Conservation
• Missouri Beef
• Missouri American Water
• Metro East Park and Recreation
• MERS GoodwillMaytag
• Lone Wolf Coffee Company
• L’Ecoule CulinaireLaclede Gas
• Kevin Miquelon / PFoodman
• Jerry Kelly Heating & Air Conditioning
• Jacob Sunroom & Exteriors
• Impressions DirectiMoto2 USA
• I.C.F. Construction
• Human Development Corporation
• Home DepotHeartland Alternative Energies
• Habitat for Humanity St. Louis
• Great Rivers Greenway
• Great Rivers Daylighting
• Frank Leta Automotive Family Honda Acura
• Flooring Systems, Inc.
• Eye on Design
• Edible Arrangements
• E & M Plumbing
• Dierbergs
• Copious Technology
• Chipotle Mexican Grill
• Big Shark Bicycle Company
• Bath Fitter
• Barefoot Wine
• Amtrak
• American Document Destruction
• Amazing Siding and Windows
• Alpine Shop
• Allied WasteFor more information about the event, please contact Blake Salger at 314.613.7838 or bsalger@stl.emmis.com.

http://www.ecolifestl.com/Eco-Expo-2010/directions.aspx

The 19th Bi Annual Healthy Planet Natural Living Expo located in Webster Groves.

Date Sunday, February 28 2010
Time 10 am to 4 pm
Place Webster Groves Recreation Center
Address 33 East Glendale Road, I-44 at Elm Ave.

Saint Louis’ preeminent green event giving businesses and consumers an opportunity to connect, you won’t want to miss it. The Webster Groves Recreation Center is a beautiful facility and will be filled to capacity with over 70 different eco friendly or organic booths dedicated to educating, informing, and introducing better goods and alternative services pertaining to healthier and environmentally friendlier ways of living.

Healthy Planet Expo things to do and see.

Live music
Drawings
Food samples
Wine and beer tasting
Free professional health screenings
Free chair massages
Energy saving ideas and tips
Home improvement
Organic & eco friendly mattresses
Healthy living ideas
Learn about recycling various items

Healthy Planet Natural Living Expo
List of Exhibitors

Advanced Energy Solutions
Alpha-Health Solutions
Alternative Hospice
Amtrak Ticket Giveaway
Animal Health & Healing
Arbonne International
Bales Junk Removal
Bath Fitter
Bellaspark Productions
Beranu Organic
Blueshadow Photography
Build St. Louis
Body & Mind/ Healthy Harvest Garden
Butterfly Energy Works
Chipolte Mexican Grill
Chiropractic Healthcare
Christine Kniffen, LCSW
Committed to Health Chiropractic
Community Acupuncture of St. Louis
Complete Wellness Center
Crown Valley Winery
Culver Way Ecovillage
Dancing Spirit Healing & Arts Center
Eckankar
Elements of Wellness
Healing Arts Center
Holistic Fitness
Inmotion Health Center
Juice Plus
Ken’s Massage Services
Kincaid Medical Associates, P.C.
Kingen Chiropractic and Wellness CTR.
Kinkaid Medical Associates, P.C
Maureen Fox, R.N.Lac Acupuncture
Medical Thermography of Metro St. Louis INC
Midtown Home Improvements
Missouri Coalition for the Environment/Earth Designs
Neel’s Pharmacy
Neighborhood Acupuncture
New Life Solutions
NYR Organic
Old Orchard Food Coop
PB Design
Pranic Healers
Preventative Medicine
Primordial Sound Meditation
Pure Power
Renewal by Andersen
Roots of Wellness Chiropractic & Hoslitic Therapies
Sappington Farmers Market
Schlafly Beer
Schnucks Market
Shinin Rivers Waldorf School
Sierra Club- Eastern Missouri Group
Soul Esteem Center
STL Beds
StlLouisGreen.com
St. Louis Vegetarian Society
The Healing Center
The School of Metaphysics
Thomas Construction
Tranquil Hearts
Threats Unleashed
True-Dose Pets
Vitality Unlimited SPA
Webster Family Chiropractic
Whole Foods Market
White Caps- Green Collars
Wildbirds Unlimited
Wildlife Center of Missouri

Cost for Adults: $8.00,
Children Under 16 FREE!
For more info, please call 314-962-7748 or email us at

Your business is your life and like most small business owners you want to be competitive and you want to be environmentally responsible. Discover what consumes energy and what saves energy. Find out what kind of priorities, steps, and goals you can put into place to address energy issues and make green improvements in your business. Learn what a sustainable business plan is and why a business needs one.

Tuesdays, February 16th- February 23rd, March 2, 2010
Course Includes 3 sessions
Time 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Location: Fox High School
Room 4
Instructor: Marla Esser
LEED AP and National Association of Homebuilders Certified Green Professional
Course Fee: $99.00

Greening your Business up

Using Green to Differentiate Your Business

You have implemented green and sustainability efforts into your daily preparations, actions, and decisions.  Now you want to share green information with customers and business partners find out how to begin.
This course will help you gain knowledge on the importance of sharing green and sustainability efforts with business clients, customers, suppliers, vendors, and other important related partners.  By making green and sustainability efforts a business mission you may attract and retain a segment of the market that is eco-conscious while achieving environmental responsibility goals you have set for yourself and your business by putting forward a green marketing plan that includes information you can share with your listeners.  Learn what a Sustainability Plan (sustainable business plan) is and why a business needs one.

Tuesdays, April 6th-April 20th
Includes 3 sessions.
Time 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: Fox High School
Instructor: Marla Esser
LEED AP and National Association of Homebuilders Certified Green Professional
Course Fee: $99.00

Instructor, Marla J Esser _ Leed AP & (NAHB) National Association of Home Builders Green certified Professional

Marla is a degreed-engineer and member of the St. Louis Home Builders Association Green Building Council, owns Sustaining Spaces, LLC in St. Louis MO.  She delivers custom green and sustainability services and education to the home building industry and consumers. Sustaining Space’s key offering is an electronic homeowners manual to help homeowners better manage and maintain their homes – a key of green living and green homes. Marla is active in the Rockwood School District and regularly shares her knowledge of Green Basics as a guest speaker for their Parents in Education program.

Protect the environment…please don’t print this unless absolutely necessary. For more information Download the PDF.

Visit JEFFCO.edu to register.

STL Bed is a Member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council and promotes green education.

 Dates January Friday 22 – Sunday 24 2010

Location- Belle-Clair Fairgrounds Park
Street- 200 S Belt East
City- Belleville IL 62220

Green Expo Show Hours
January 22, 12pm – 8pm Friday
January 23, 10am – 8pm Saturday
January 24, 10am – 4pm Sunday

Bi- State Green Expo Ticket Prices:
Adults:  $5.00
Seniors: (65 +) $4.00
Students:  $3.00
Hey Mom & Dad Children 5 and under (Free)
Sunday Seniors entry is $2.00 between 12pm – 2pm

Purchase tickets at the door.

 What’s going on at the MO IL Bi-State Green Expo?

Come be a part of this great learning occasion. There are educational opportunities for everyone and everyone’s interests in living green. Learn how we can make a difference each and every day in both big and little ways. The Eco Expo is a chance to experience being more eco friendly and aware of our environment while seeing common sense solutions to our problems and realizing that it doesn’t have to be taken to extremes. Instead many of us will find out that it more important that we all simply start taking steps however large or small we choose to make them.

Learn about products and services that are available at reasonable costs both financially and environmentally. See eco friendly, natural, and organic products that have taken steps to minimize our impact on the earth. Vendors will share their green industries and through those industries how these things can be achieved.

Experience products that can help us all breathe a little easier by minimizing chemical content and exposure. Experience healthier alternatives for natural and healthy solutions for living.

Finally during these tough times learn about high efficiency, energy savings, and let’s face it the best part money saving solutions that can put some of those dollar bills back in our pockets.   

Be sure to bring the kids-
Browse the Green Expo and your kids can have a great time too experiencing the Kids Green Adventure Zone.

Exhibitors will be sharing innovative products and services on- site during the expo many offering one time only show savings and money saving specials. Be sure to ask individual exhibitors about such offerings and discounts.

There is an opportunity for one attendee to get lucky. They could win a One Year Lease for a 2010 Fuel Efficient Vehicle.

Looking for a “Home energy-efficiency makeover” One Lucky attendee could when just such a package. Provided by Spray Insulation & Contracting Inc

30 Minute Seminar
“The Truth About Audits”
 How you can enjoy and afford the home of your dreams.

Bi State Green Expo List of Vendors

Alphabetically

Allied Waste Services Republic Service Inc
Always Green Recycling Inc
Bath Fitter
Belleville New Democrat
Beltline Chiropractic
Black Bear Bakery
Cabinet Clad
Certa Pro Painters
Chapala Consulting Inc
Chris McBrien Kids Zone Entertainer
Clear Channel Radio
Conoco Phillips Wood River Refinery
Dierbergs
Eco Life STL
Elite Tractor and Lift Truck
Enertech Manufacturing
Ernst Heating and Cooling
Eye On Design
Fox 2 KTVI
Heartland Alternative Energy
Incredible Events
Jacob Sunroom & Exteriors
Kitchen Craft Cookware
Mad Science
Mid America Advanced Power MAAPS
Mold Solutions
Nu View
Owens Corning
Pro Basement Finishers of America
Re Bath
Renewal by Anderson Window Replacement
Rhino Shields
Rothman Furniture
Saint Louis Zoo
Scotts Power Equipment
Sigman Heating & Cooling
Southwestern Illinois College
Spray Insulation and Contracting Inc
St. Clair Corporation
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Stitt Energy Systems Inc
STL Beds
STLouis Green.Com
Superior Walls
The Healthy Planet
The South Bend Chocolate Company
Thermaline Solutions
Thomas Construction
UMB Bank
Waste Management
Weber Chevrolet
Woods Basement Systems
Z 107.7

This list was not complete if we missed your business contact us with your business name or ad it to the comment area below for free.

My 3 Words for 2010

1. Build
2. Courage
3. Educate

Build
Construct new relationships, develop partnerships and communities at the same time supporting and cultivating existing ones in addition to recognizing their value.  Get involved in conversation by not just participating but also initiating, and most importantly listening. Learning to trust others as they trust me and recognizing that trust and relationships in both business and personal will lead to enormous success in 2010 and beyond.

Courage
Have the courage to not follow others but to be the leader and really contribute while engaging steadfastly in both my personal life and within my industry because I don’t believe things happen by chance rather people accomplish things through courage.

Educate
I was never one that took much from school. It was always about the interaction and the relationships; I only now really understand the value of education. My goal is to have courage and build, and to do that I must be educated. Accomplishment comes from being tutored through reading, listening and recognizing that education is not just about being the student but teaching and sharing knowledge. Educating coworkers and customers is unfortunately an underrated under utilized strategic business tool I intend to act on.

I encourage everyone to think out your 3 words for 2010 and please feel free to leave yours in our comment section.

Please a have a safe holiday and take some time to enjoy your friends, family, and remember who Christmas celebrates.

Merry Christmas
Dave Belleville
Doug Belleville