Has anyone decided to buy American-made products as much as possible? Even though I don't feel I can make a huge difference in the economy at large, I can control what goes on in my own household. I'm thinking about committing to buying American. I have been reading some blogs this morning and it does seem like it will take some product research but I'm ok with that. I'm still going to have Australian wine and Belgium chocolate but for regular consumer goods, I'll try to find American. I know it can be more expensive but apparently not always-and quality may be better. I was thinking about using Etsy a lot more for gifts too. But before I do this...do you know where diapers are made? That may need to be a cheater item. Thoughts about all of this?
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Re: Committing to buying American?
Post your research/blogs. would love to investigate/learn more along with you
And I have to ask- what kind of australian wine???
oh the important things!!
lol- hey I asked about the blogs too. lol
I was just doing my due diligence and covering all research bases.
interestingly enough- before i left on vacation- i was teaching a week long CPE class (continuing ed for accountants) on comparative taxation (international) and the issue of manufacturing and Asia came up. It was pretty interesting discussion-
I am going to check to see if they uploaded the audio of the course yet.
And I was just folding all of the kids clothes- and I checked the labels. 90% of theirs were china (gymboree, gap, jumping beans, oshgosh, carters)- also some egypt, cambodia, kenya. Not a thread from the USA
https://www.americansworking.com/clothingchildren.html
Good buys with Made in USA is going to be hard to come by- so much of WHY was covered in my class. Mostly- OSHA related and legal issues related to cheap labor etc.
lol- yellow tail is one of my go to's. Have you had their reserve chardonnay?- quite tasty.
Great idea! I believe Bunny Hugs diapers are made in the USA. Not sure if they're any good or not.
Oh I'm totally having a few drinks tonight now
No. I can't make a commitment to buying American. We don't always make the best products, and therefore, I will continue to buy some products made elsewhere.
This is a great idea, and something that I feel like I should be considering/doing. Thanks for the blog link!
Sometimes there are so many different things I should be keeping track of to be a conscientious consumer/citizen/wife/mother that it makes my head spin. The cure may be yellow tail wine. :-)
A friend of mine (and local Philly nestie) was featured on World News Tonight as part of their "Made In America" campaign. It definitely inspired me to look at what I am buying more closely
Here is the video
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/made-america-philadelphia-pride-14048547
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Great video! YAY for Seventh Generation and California Baby- those are two of my favorites. :-)
Great video! I can totally switch to 7th generation diapers. Also Mrs. Meyers!!! I'm already obsessed with their products.
I just saw on an ABC news video that if we all spend $64 per year more on American made products, we will together create 200,000 jobs per year. $64 is not much. We should all do this!
https://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20110619_Why_jobs_keep_vanishing.html
Here is the article I mentioned earlier. I know it is technically an opinion piece, but it made a lot of sense to me.
hellopoppy - I started reading this because like you, it was something I had heard about and decided to look into further. I am not advocating that everyone never buy a foreign product again, but I just want to be an informed consumer and make good decisions
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Bmmw to answer you question-- I have known poppy for several years and I know where she is coming from because we have had this conversation before
I have tried in the past (usually not just American, but at least made in a country with unions). It's really hard! One year, I was determined to buy only U.S.A. or fair-trade shoes, but I kept getting "heartbroken" that a shoe I loved was made in China. Plus, it really adds up when you're talking about clothing. Not such a problem when we were two-income, but now that we live on one, I'm not so comfortable buying $150 shoes.
Most things I buy used, which kind of skirts around the issue.