Your Home Has a Toxic Burden Too (And Your Rug Is Part of It)
By Sandy Wong
Your body has a limited capacity to process what it's exposed to. Here's how a rug factors into your home's total toxic burden, and where to actually start reducing it.
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3 Ways to Help Reduce Rug Wastage
By Sandy Wong
Have you heard? It's Rug Recycling Awareness Month here at Rugs by Roo! As a consumer of rugs, there are 3 ways you can help reduce rug wastage.
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Gift A Blanket Drive
By Sandy Wong
For each rug we sell during the month of November, a blanket will be donated to Mamas For Mamas. Our wish is not only to make a small difference in...
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Rugs Made from Recycled Plastics
By Sandy Wong, 1 comment
While most of us do a great job at home ensuring that our plastic containers and coffee cups are sorted and placed in the appropriate bins for recycling purposes, have you ever wondered...
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What is GoodWeave?
By Sandy Wong
When I started Rugs by Roo, I did not expect I'd be advocating to end child labour. I just wanted to sell pretty rugs to customers who were also having babies...
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How to End Child Labour
By Sandy Wong
Being a parent, it is hard to watch documentaries or read articles about child labour. I simply cannot imagine my 4 year old being put to work and lose her...
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Top 10 Best Selling Living Room Rugs
By Sandy Wong
When I first started Rugs by Roo, I was 5 months pregnant with my son and was naturally drawn to all things baby (especially colourful baby nursery rugs!). However, being the...
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Free Resources to Keep Kids Sane At Home
By Sandy Wong
I don't know about your household but its been two weeks of hair pulling, toy grabbing, shouting and tantrums over here. These resources sent over from friends and family have...
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Gift Card Now Available
By Sandy Wong
Being an eCommerce store, we've been pretty lucky since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our entire business is online so its been business as usual, to say the least. We...
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Life as it is with COVID-19
By Sandy Wong
We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe during these uncertain times. We know you're concerned and so are we. Knowing that we're all in this together is somewhat comforting,...
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Woolables in Canada ~ YAY or NAY?
By Sandy Wong
We have some EXCITING news to share! For those who don't already know, Rugs by Roo is actually based in Canada. But most of our sales efforts have been focused...
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Month of Gratitude
By Sandy Wong
I must admit. I am not a numbers person. Even though I went to school for commerce and was an accountant for 6 years, my business decisions are mostly intuitive rather than...
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Cotton vs Wool Rugs, What's it Gonna Be?
By Sandy Wong
Wool has been used in rug making for centuries and remains the most popular choice in the rug industry today. Using cotton in rug making is only a 20th century thing...
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The Sakûla Project
By Sandy Wong
I was a huge fan of Lorena Canals long before Rugs by Roo was born. I fell in love the moment I saw her Happy Prism rug for the first...
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