Heartland Basket is offering
retired Longaberger collections for sale in complete sets
retired Longaberger collections for sale in complete sets
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When I first fell in love with Longaberger I was the Welcome Wagon lady in my hometown in Ohio...
I purchased my first Longaberger basket around 1990 at a home show in Rocky River, OH. If I was going to spend at least $25 on a basket, I thought I might as well spend $50 and get one I could really put to work, so I chose the Magazine Basket....soon after we moved to Rochester NY. It sat in my home for a few years doing the obvious - storing magazines.
Looking for friends and contacts in my new town, I joined an official Welcome Wagon Club in Penfield suburb of Rochester. There were many relocated families like mine in the area. And the club there helped us get acclimated, find playgroups for our children, go on family outings around the Finger Lakes, etc....it was a great experience. Not long after we returned to Ohio. The town we were moving to - Brunswick, OH - had not had a Welcome Wagon representative for a number of years to visit new people and bring them goodies like I had received in the past. That was my opportunity. The dusty magazine basket now had a real job to do. And over the next five years, it went into 2000 different homes of new residents with gifts. I represented forty businesses in my town who sponsored the visits. I also took the basket with me into every business that I called on. I think that was when I truly realized what a working basket meant. It became part of who I was.
That basket was strong, The handles held up well. It could carry a lot. It was also pliable, in and out of my car constantly, getting banged around. And I was proud of it. One of the people I visited early on gave me the name of a local woman who sold Longaberger baskets in the area, her name is Marilyn Kessler out of Valley City, Ohio. I was invited to her home for an Open House where she was featuring the baskets of those years: 1993 Hostess Collection, Heartland baskets, and Christmas baskets. Her house was amazing, Longaberger everywhere. I was hooked.
I didn't buy anything from her that day or book a show....but I did call her a couple hours later, she was still having her open house, and I told her I wanted to sell Longaberger. There was a pretty long pause on the other end of the phone, I don't think she actually believed me! That is how I got started.....Then over the next couple years I recruited three other women to earn the MBA basket. Two are still active and one has her own branch. In 1995 I made it to VIP in sales. But it was at my first Bee in 1994 that I had that original Magazine basket signed by Dave Longaberger and eventually by other family members.....It really means a lot to me to have Dave's signature on that basket since he would have understood what a test I had put that basket through, much like he had done with his own business.
When I first fell in love with Longaberger I was the Welcome Wagon lady in my hometown in Ohio...
I purchased my first Longaberger basket around 1990 at a home show in Rocky River, OH. If I was going to spend at least $25 on a basket, I thought I might as well spend $50 and get one I could really put to work, so I chose the Magazine Basket....soon after we moved to Rochester NY. It sat in my home for a few years doing the obvious - storing magazines.
Looking for friends and contacts in my new town, I joined an official Welcome Wagon Club in Penfield suburb of Rochester. There were many relocated families like mine in the area. And the club there helped us get acclimated, find playgroups for our children, go on family outings around the Finger Lakes, etc....it was a great experience. Not long after we returned to Ohio. The town we were moving to - Brunswick, OH - had not had a Welcome Wagon representative for a number of years to visit new people and bring them goodies like I had received in the past. That was my opportunity. The dusty magazine basket now had a real job to do. And over the next five years, it went into 2000 different homes of new residents with gifts. I represented forty businesses in my town who sponsored the visits. I also took the basket with me into every business that I called on. I think that was when I truly realized what a working basket meant. It became part of who I was.
That basket was strong, The handles held up well. It could carry a lot. It was also pliable, in and out of my car constantly, getting banged around. And I was proud of it. One of the people I visited early on gave me the name of a local woman who sold Longaberger baskets in the area, her name is Marilyn Kessler out of Valley City, Ohio. I was invited to her home for an Open House where she was featuring the baskets of those years: 1993 Hostess Collection, Heartland baskets, and Christmas baskets. Her house was amazing, Longaberger everywhere. I was hooked.
I didn't buy anything from her that day or book a show....but I did call her a couple hours later, she was still having her open house, and I told her I wanted to sell Longaberger. There was a pretty long pause on the other end of the phone, I don't think she actually believed me! That is how I got started.....Then over the next couple years I recruited three other women to earn the MBA basket. Two are still active and one has her own branch. In 1995 I made it to VIP in sales. But it was at my first Bee in 1994 that I had that original Magazine basket signed by Dave Longaberger and eventually by other family members.....It really means a lot to me to have Dave's signature on that basket since he would have understood what a test I had put that basket through, much like he had done with his own business.
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