Here are some ideas on how to shop local this holiday season, along with the chance to win gift cards, items and services from each fine local business listed.

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Merry Christmas!

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Suds Up Your Sled
Give the gift of a clean car with Sudsy’s Car Wash. The Church Street car wash offers Unlimited Wash Club memberships starting at $22.99/month. Its premium Mighty Duck wash includes Lava Shield Paint Sealant, wax and shine, Rain-X, foam and conditioner, tire shine, underbody rust inhibitor, Bug Juice and other features. Memberships and individual washes are available at sudsys.com. Enter to win a gift bucket of car care items, plus a $100 gift card to Sudsy’s.

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Rugs at ReStore
The Habitat ReStore offers both new and gently used household items from rugs and furniture to appliances and home improvement materials—all at greatly discounted prices. Plus, the ReStore, located at 850 Mercury Blvd., helps fund Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity and its mission to build strength, stability, self-reliance and shelter for low-income families. Learn more at rchfh.org. Find a variety of home decor and home improvement items at the ReStore, and enter to win one of the store’s many 5’x7′ area rugs.

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Relax and Unwind
Most anyone would appreciate a massage, facial or pedicure, and a gift card to the Nurture Nook Day Spa & Gift Shoppe would make a great stocking stuffer. In addition to spa services, the boutique offers candles, bathrobes, essential oils and other items to help the people of Murfreesboro find their “Ahh . . . ” Visit boropulse.com/win to enter to win a $100 gift certificate to spend at Nurture Nook.

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Festive Music
Century 21 carries lots of music on vinyl, CD and cassette, along with turntables, incense, vaporizers, wall hangings, locally made tie-dye, Zippos and all sorts of fun treasures. The store, just off Main Street near MTSU, also stocks Gypsy Rose clothing and Green Tree jewelry, and receives new vinyl every week. Shop there on Tuesdays for 10 percent off music, and on Thursdays for 10 percent off glass. Enter to win a $50 gift certificate to C21.

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Holiday Feast
Chef Jeff Pevehouse has earned a reputation as one of the area’s top caterers. For that hard-to-please individual on your Christmas list, consider a gift card to his restaurant, CJ’s, on Northfield Boulevard. Here, hungry diners can enjoy delicious steaks, salmon, raspberry chipotle chicken, bacon-wrapped asparagus, caprese and more.

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Coffee Goodness
The Fox & Goat Coffee Company, based in Middle Tennessee, offers small-batch coffee roasted fresh and shipped to your door. The company, founded by a veteran and his wife (the goat and the fox), imports its beans from ethical growers located all around the world and roasts them with love. Order online at foxandgoatcoffeecompany.com, or enter to win a gift basket that includes some of the Fox & Goat roasts, as well as some of their scented candles.

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Winter Magic
Wand & Willow Day Spa, located at the Salons by JC complex on Thompson Lane, believes that there is a little magic inside all of us. Give a little Christmas magic to a loved one you want to treat, and gift one of Wand & Willow’s indulgence packages, massages, signature facials or something from its collection of potions, lotions, skincare products or bath salts, so they may experience a moment of relaxation with a dash of whimsical charm. Enter to win a 60-minute facial from Wand & Willow.

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Merry Massage
Balance Anew Wellness offers a variety of professional massage services at reasonable prices, all geared towards reducing each individual’s stress and pain. Therapist Tammie McLendon has trained in numerous modalities and offers Swedish, trigger point, reflexology, deep tissue, energy work and even oncology and geriatric massages. Balance Anew also offers ionic foot detox services. Call 615-497-9799 for information on special holiday gift certificate offers, or enter to win a gift certificate for an ionic foot detox bath session.

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A Christmas Float
Give the gift of a unique experience! Float Alchemy opened on Cason Lane earlier in 2018, bringing some new services to the Murfreesboro market. In addition to massage and saunas, the local and independent business offers a variety of live cultured kombuchas on tap, chilling cryotherapy and floatation therapy tanks in an effort to help people in the area heal both body and mind. The serene environment, and most importantly the results, have already earned the business many local fans and supporters. Learn more at floatalchemy.com, and help everyone on your list enter the new year relaxed and radiant. Enter to win a flotation package.

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Care For Your Little Elf
Sitting Made Simple is a local babysitting service that connects area families who need childcare services with college sitters who need babysitting gigs. Whether you need a last-minute sitter, before- or after-school care, or seasonal sitting, SMS has you covered! The Sitting Made Simple sitters are interviewed in person, have a clean background check and driving record and are CPR certified. Contact local mom and franchise owner Lindsey McPherson at lindsey@sittingmadesimple.com or book your sitter with the online tool at sittingmadesimple.com. Consider sitting services as a gift idea for the parents who could use some time to themselves, or enter to win a $100 Sitting Made Simple gift card.

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Healthy Eating
Grabbing something to eat on the fly can sometimes make it challenging to eat healthy. CoreLife Eatery prepares healthy, scratch-made, clean foods that taste great and are affordable, offered in a quick-casual format. All foods are free of trans fats, gluten, artificial colors, sweeteners, other artificial additives and GMOs. The chicken and steak used are sustainably raised and never given antibiotics or hormones, and the bone broth is slow-simmered all day for maximum taste and nutrition. During the holiday season, purchase a $25 gift card, and CoreLife will gift you a $5 off coupon. Enter to win a CoreLife gift card.

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Seasonings Greetings
JPops, a locally owned Murfreesboro business, now offers JPops Homemade Goodness, and its one-of-a-kind Jalapeño Butter! Sweet with a bit of heat, it is dubbed “the universal condiment” because it is delicious on everything! Jalapeño Butter is gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan with only five calories per serving. Learn more at jpopstn.com or enter to win a gift basket from JPops.

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Dough to Go
Donut Country has been a Murfreesboro legend for decades, and magical things happen in middle of the night at this 24-hour Memorial Boulevard establishment. The people of Murfreesboro buy the made-in-house doughnuts, twists, eclairs, cinnamon rolls and more by the dozen, and the shop also serves sandwiches, chicken salad and other breakfast and lunch items. Drive right through and grab some doughnuts for someone on your list, or enter to win a $10 Donut Country gift card plus a T-shirt.

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Fruit of the Vine
Big Creek Winery Tasting Room recently opened in Christiana, offering muscadine, niagra, concord, peach, blackberry, cherry, apple and other varieties from Pulaski’s Big Creek Winery. Enter to win a bottle at boropulse.com/win.

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Christmas Goose
The scavenger hunts from Wild Goose Chase make fun team-building activities while making the most of our beautiful area. For a unique Christmas gift, hire the Wild Goose Chase team to produce a custom scavenger hunt for your family or friends. Enter to win a personalized scavenger hunt.

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Trains and Rockers
Lionel Train sets have been treasured Christmas gifts for over 100 years now. At Thor’s, the only official Lionel dealer in town, you can get a set of Christmas nostalgia to send chugging around your tree. The shop also offers a selection of American handcrafted furniture. Enter to win a rocker for your porch at boropulse.com/win.

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New York Style Pizza
Luca’s, on New Salem Highway, offers delicious New York style pizza along with calzone, subs, stromboli, cannoli and garlic rolls. Get the pizza lover in your life a taste of Italy from Luca’s. Enter to win a free Luca’s pizza.

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Merry Meatloaf
Give a gift card to Murfreesboro’s oldest restaurant and put a little City Cafe in someone’s stocking. The Main Street restaurant serves meatloaf, fried chicken, catfish, green beans, biscuits and all of the Southern standards. Win a $20 gift card to City Cafe plus a T-shirt.

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A Night on Holiday
Consider a stay at the Doubletree Hotel for the person who could use a night or two away. In addition to a pool, fitness center, laundry services and a business center, the Old Fort Parkway hotel is also home to Burger Bar.

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Breathe Easy
A visit to the salt room reportedly helps detoxify, improve respiratory and overall health, enhance the immune system and lung capacity, and aids visitors with relaxation. If there is someone on your list who needs to relax, treat them to a session to improve their respiratory health and wellness. Breathe Easy Salt Rooms also carries bath salts, aromatherapy products and more. Enter to win a visit to Breathe Easy Salt Room plus a Himalayan salt lamp.