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FOR YOU & YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY – FUN SHOPPING VENTURES: Christmas, New Years, Birthdays, anytime you need a gift...We all have to think about giving gifts through the year, whether it’s holiday time or someone’s birthday or another special event. We’ve got you fully covered with various kinds of cool gift ideas here at Altro magazine’s gift-giving, shopping guide – for anytime of year, at your service and for your pleasure!
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In this online gift guide, you will find something here for everyone – many great local shopping opportunities in all kinds of locally owned and sometimes family-operated businesses as well as online businesses that sell their unique products/ services on their websites. You will discover great offers, discounted deals, coupons and gift card specials. Also, you’ll find some of the most diverse, independent and popular-in-their-own-way, ‘best-kept secrets’.
In our larger metropolitan’s DESTINATION HOT SPOTS, you may discover or even rediscover what makes this part of the Midwest so awesome – our rich and eclectic history along with our independence is what makes us stand out and shine in the spotlight of our own very celebrated identity. We have some of the best recreation as well as the best shops and food here. Plus, we showcase here what is TIMELESS as most of these gifts can be enjoyed any time, despite trends or spikes in sales at different times of year.
THE ‘ALTRO STANDARD’: It’s great to be part of a community, but within that neighborhood, you can also better appreciate your neighbors for having their own unique, trade-marked or signature flair that is truly all theirs, instead of something mass-produced or unoriginal. Within this guide, you will find handmade items/things made from scratch, unique styles or healthier products – including ‘prepper/ emergency’ foods – basically, products that are worthy of being labeled as ‘essential’ or one-of-a-kind. Here at AP Mag, you will NOT find the huge retail stores or corporate chains where everything is copy-catted and cloned to death!
—————————————— JUNGLE JIM’S INTERNATIONAL MARKET – Cincinnati gourmet store/ Fairfield Oh specialty grocery store This place on our list is a tried and true favorite of many locals who never get bored shopping here! Rows and rows of endless gourmet and high-end specialty foods are found here but their produce is fresh and they also offer lots of organic and non-GMO foods. Take yourself on a trip soon if you have not – esp. if you are planning any holiday parties for friends of diverse tastes. You will find this popular store in our categories database above or also here at www.junglejims.com —————————————– QUAIL HOLLOW CANDLE FACTORY & GIFT SHOP – Shop online to buy unique candles this year! Handmade products that hold up to today’s ‘supermarket’ variety… This candle company in Amish country sells unique and interesting candles for all your holiday and other needs. Whether it’s a romantic dinner occasion, a family holiday dinner to create atmosphere, or if you just like the scented ones to fill your home year-round – esp. in the kitchen if you’re cooking smelly foods like fish – this store is ‘candle headquarters’! Choose from homemade hand-carved wax candles to scented ones to even special wedding type. But they don’t just sell candles – they also offer primitive goods and homemade Amish products which make great holiday gifts this time of year.                  For ordering and more info, see them here: www.quailhollowwax.com . —————————————— |