River Road Country Crafts

12/25/2025

11/10/2025

Not sure I like this renaming term myself. My contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. May not have been the work I wanted to be doing at the time BUT I always had a job.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved!
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.
Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't Cut and Paste this to their timelines. Will you?

11/07/2025

Where are we shopping this weekend?

Here's a list of the craft shows & markets for this weekend - plus some shops in these towns you should check out.

▪ Friday, November 7th:
Kendall Holiday Craft Fair - Kendall Community Hall (9-4)
Creative Destination at Driver Opera House - Darlington (Noon-6)

▪ Saturday, November 8th:
Kendall Holiday Craft Fair - Kendall Community Hall (9-2)
Junque Stops Here Christmas Open House - Cuba City (10-5)
Potosi - Tennyson Back Home For Christmas Craft Show - Holiday Gardens Event Center - Potosi (9am)
Wisconsin Heights Holiday Craft Fair - Wisconsin Heights HS - Mazomanie (9-2)
Boscobel Farmers Market - Blaine Gym (8-Noon)
Moonlight Market * Pajama Party - Viroqua Public Market (5:30-Mid)
Care & Rehab - Boscobel WI Craft Fair - (9-1)
Creative Destination at Driver Opera House - Darlington (9-2)

▪ Sunday, November 9th:
Junque Stops Here Christmas Open House - Cuba City (9-5)

The other shops to visit:
3rd Generation Antiques & Gifts - Cuba City
Hard Scrabble Antique Mall - Hazel Green
Tennyson Treasures - Potosi/Tennyson
Potosi’s Hub: People, Pages, and Parcels - Potosi
Craft Affaire Collective Market LLC - Mazomanie
The Grey Duck - Viroqua
Highway 14 Antiques Viroqua, WI
Regeneration Antiques & Collectibles - Boscobel
The Paisley Star - Boscobel
Purple Dreams LLC - Boscobel

Have a fun weekend and thank you for shopping local.

09/13/2025

09/12/2025

New women's 7 piece key chain set in purple, leopard, pink and black they also include flashlight and glass breaking tool for only$30. The 9 piece blue set has flashlight, glass breaking tool,
pill box and more for only $25. They also come with lip gloss and hand sanitizer with $3 shipping.

09/12/2025

have tons of designs message your order and will see what I can do

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09/12/2025

Check out some of the new 20 oz tumblers just finished and ready for a new home. They keep hot up to 12 hours and cold up to 24 hours

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

Just finished these 12 oz fliptop metal tumblers so let me know what you are interested in or stop by Shullsburg Market on the 20 open 8 to 12

09/12/2025

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