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Geezer.com Offers Products By Seniors For Seniors, Others

(Editor’s Note:  This article was edited by a 61-year-old geezer who did not find the term offensive.)

A new e-commerce website offers a virtual marketplace for online shoppers interested in purchasing the original handiwork of seniors from towns and villages across the country.

As such, it offers a unique opportunity for more senior glass media artist to display and sell their works.

Green Thumb, Inc., the nation’s oldest and largest provider of training and employment for mature workers, has launched Geezer.com.

“Geezer.com is unique,” says Andrea Wooten, president and CEO of Green Thumb, Inc., which sponsors and created the site. “It provides talented seniors, even those without computers and Internet access, with a worldwide market for their handcrafted goods. The site brings the unique products of America’s seniors to people who don’t regularly travel the back roads. Shoppers looking for unusual gifts and accessories will find them right here.”

As the premier site on the web for senior-made crafts, Geezer.com brims with the vitality, good humor, and special gifts of America’s older generation -- a generation that knows the value of hard work, loyalty to family, and contribution to community.

The marketplace features scores of artisans and craftspeople, and more than two thousand hand-wrought products in more than a dozen categories including Apparel, Artworks, Doll Houses, Holiday Shop, Home & Hearth, In the Kitchen, Music & Videos, Pet Store, Sports and Recreation, Toys and Games, and Yard & Garden. “Online shopping couldn’t be easier with Geezer.com’s shopping cart that permits buyers to load up items from a variety of artisans,” Wooten adds.

This is an opportunity for senior artisans to sell their products. “We are giving seniors across the country the opportunity to supplement their incomes, launch new businesses, and expand the market for their hand-crafted goods,” Wooten says.

Green Thumb, Inc., is a national nonprofit organization best known as America's leader in the field of older worker training and employment. Its mission is to strengthen families, communities, and the nation by providing older and disadvantaged individuals with opportunities to learn, work, and serve others. Founded in 1965, Green Thumb was first chartered to use the "green thumbs" of retired farmers to improve our nation’s parks and highways.

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