Pretzel City Paper

Pretzel City Paper Store closed Jan. 31, 2025. Thank you for 20 wonderful years! Cardmaking & Scrapbooking store was located in Northern Illinois, 30 minutes west of Rockford, IL.

and 20 minutes from the Wisconsin Stateline.

Some gals are still meeting Wed. 1 - 3 pm at the Lincoln Mall hall. We chat and make whatever we bring. We make various ...
11/12/2025

Some gals are still meeting Wed. 1 - 3 pm at the Lincoln Mall hall. We chat and make whatever we bring. We make various projects, cards, or Quilling or Embroidery on Paper cards but mostly we have astounding conversations! Come join us!

11/12/2025

OPINION: I think food pantries should be able to accept SNAP. I'll tell you why.

When SNAP runs out for someone (like during a government shutdown) we always suggest people go to a food pantry to get food.

And when they do, they get the food for free.

We also ask the public to give donations of money and food for more pantry items that we can also give away - for free.

Why not use SNAP money?

If donations to food pantries provide "free food", and we recommend SNAP participants go there to get food, then let's expand the food selection with SNAP - which is a donation for food.

And instead of food pantries providing "free food" how about everything is discounted 75% at a food pantry. So a $3.29 gallon of milk is now .82 cents for SNAP recipients.

And then their SNAP money (donation) serves as another (donation) for even more food available at the food pantry.

If "donations" provide free food at a food pantry why are we not using SNAP (taxpayer funded donations) to provide more food? And instead of making SNAP participants pay $3.29 for a gallon of milk at a high priced grocery store, (since they are having a hardship) how about we discount it 75% to just .82 cents?

Twenty three percent of all Stephenson County Illinois residents already receive SNAP, so who do you think does not have food - or SNAP - that needs free food?

Who.

If a SNAP recipient has "no money" it is OK to provide them with free food, but if they "have money" no food can be discounted to them? It has to either be free - or grocery store expensive?

And we "have to" make it grocery store expensive so that they run out of SNAP money sooner, and then are forced to go to the food pantry to get free food?

And that makes sense to who exactly.

There is something very very rotten with the SNAP program.

SNAP recipients can get food for free, and are encouraged to do so, but they cannot get food at a discounted rate at the same place that is actively seeking "donations" for more food that the person just received food from.

And SNAP recipients have a card in their hand with money on it for that exact very thing...

Food.

Smells like corruption to me, and it smells really really bad. You know that smell.

Thoughts?

Pantry food is outdated you say?
Can't be sold you say?

Ok.

So you are suggesting outdated food that cannot be sold to people? And you want them to eat it? What if there was an influx of $100.3 billion dollars to the pantry program, like say, oh from SNAP which is about 1.5% of all federal spending.

And of course, we cut the 30%+ waste too.

What then.

Helping others is most certainly needed, but today's culture of helping has been turned into a misused, misappropriated, waste ridden scam.

I support food pantries.

I'll wait for your mathematician food production engineer's scaled response as to why "it just doesn't work" that way. though.

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04/11/2025

Freeport Lincoln Mall is having a Spring Market Craft Show, Sat., April 12, 2025 10 am - 3 pm. Surprise, Debbie B. will have greeting cards available for purchase if you wish. Also Sandy J. will have their homemade rugs, etc. Happy Spring! Event is sponsored by Everything Home!

Thank you everyone for the good times at our store Pretzel City Paper. Facebook is threatening to close down this site. ...
02/25/2025

Thank you everyone for the good times at our store Pretzel City Paper. Facebook is threatening to close down this site. Just add .com to our name, as we still have the website at this point! Or email me at info@ our store name.com We had the store for 20 years - that's a good time. Thank you & take care.

Happy Valentine's Day! Our store is closed. Miss you all. Hope you had a Love filled day!
02/15/2025

Happy Valentine's Day! Our store is closed. Miss you all. Hope you had a Love filled day!

Dear friends,P*P wil be closing this Thursday., January 30. We have had many good times together. Come Mon. - Thurs. for...
01/27/2025

Dear friends,
P*P wil be closing this Thursday., January 30. We have had many good times together. Come Mon. - Thurs. for some good prices! Everything is 50% off... except Dept. 8, 12 x 12 paper, Cougar
8-1/2" x 11" paper & envelopes, and other items already marked down. Note: not all items in these two pictures are in stock.
$1 P*P Stamp Sale is on stamps in-stock only. Online stamps are not on sale. See you soon! Thank you.

Janell reports "We still have a nice selection of Valentine's Paper and Embellishments at Pretzel City Paper".All Embell...
01/24/2025

Janell reports "We still have a nice selection of Valentine's Paper and Embellishments at Pretzel City Paper".
All Embellishments Sale $2.99/ reg. $4.99
Note: Our little store is closing next week.
EVERYTHING is 50% off
EXCEPT: Dept. #8 items, 12 x 12 papers
and Cougar 80 # papers and envelopes.

Open normal hours Sat., Jan. 25, 2025 10 am - 4 pm.
Open Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 10 am - 5 pm.
We are going to miss you all after 20 years. Thank you!

Jan. 17, Fri. Heartfelt card class with Janell, last Heartfelt class. $20 P*P is closing in jan. 2025. RSVP 815 291-51...
01/11/2025

Jan. 17, Fri. Heartfelt card class with Janell, last Heartfelt class. $20 P*P is closing in jan. 2025. RSVP 815 291-5163

Jan. 14, Tuesday. Adult Beginner class with LeeAnn, last class. 10:30 am or 2:30 pm. RSVP 815 291-5163
01/11/2025

Jan. 14, Tuesday. Adult Beginner class with LeeAnn, last class. 10:30 am or 2:30 pm. RSVP 815 291-5163

Jan. 11, Sat. the last Kid's Card Klass with LeeAnn at Pretzel City Paper. 10:30 am - noon. Prepay only. RSVP 815 291-5...
01/08/2025

Jan. 11, Sat. the last Kid's Card Klass with LeeAnn at Pretzel City Paper. 10:30 am - noon. Prepay only. RSVP 815 291-5163. Ages 5 - 10, please bring your adult. This is FUN! These cards are awesome!

Jan. 10, Fri. RECIPE BOOK class with Janell 10:30 am. $25 RSVP 815 291-5163.
01/06/2025

Jan. 10, Fri. RECIPE BOOK class with Janell 10:30 am. $25 RSVP 815 291-5163.

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1229 W. Galena Avenue
Freeport, IL
61032

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Tuesday 10am - 5am
Wednesday 10am - 5am
Thursday 10am - 5am
Friday 10am - 5am
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