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09-28-2011, 11:32 AM | #1 |
Between♥Suspensions Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Vaissades
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| Made In China Boycott Challenging myself to not only not consume goods Made in China anymore: this thread was straw that clicked my wallet closed: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/ani...ic-beware.html Here's why: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/3678283-post51.html So I'm going to keep a lil journal (okay YT thread) of when (and where) I go to buy something & note when it is Made in China & how I avoided the purchase or the substitution I found. Ideally, I'm really aiming to go all Made IN THE USA, but I'm also going for super convenience, availability, & low cost. New baby now makes skin kid #3, that I'm unemployed to stay home & care for, so convenience, availability & low cost are the key of all things in my life atm. Please join in & share your successes, thoughts experiences, substitutions, suggestions etc. Wondering how many of you whom are consuming Chinese goods will join in here. Otherwise this will just be an annoying thread that keeps popping up under the most recent of this category
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09-28-2011, 11:40 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member | I DO, I try to buy Made in America, MOSTLY but I have to admit sometimes I have NO choice that to buy a made in china item, we drive Chevrolet and Ford, and my hubby is a union member, we firmly believe in AMERICA.. that video is horrible,I might have to go without things if I can't find a made in America sub, |
09-28-2011, 11:42 AM | #3 |
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| I think it's a good idea. I've been wanting to, and somewhat trying, to avoid items manufactured outside the country. Why not support our own, right? I don't shop much, but I'll be interested to see where you go (to shop) and what you find. I'll definitely try to join you!
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09-28-2011, 04:08 PM | #4 |
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| Just wanted to give a tip... I think it's great to buy local stuff and try to support Canadian products as much as possible... You may want to look into the "made in USA" legislation. There was a huge scam revealing documentary a few years back on Made in Canada, which brought up a huge uprising of new labels for products because I think at one point only 25% or something needed to come from Canada to be labeled that. I don't want to make your goal harder, but thought you may want to know it may not all be as truthful as you think. For example in this documentary, a local fish processing plant near my home stopped processing local fish, they import vietnamese fish and label it as a Canadian product. despite that fact that perfectly good Canadian fish come into port next to the factory. Good luck, glad someone is committed to supporting their local economy, if more people were like you, there wouldn't be recessions and crap.
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09-28-2011, 04:09 PM | #5 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | It's so hard to find things made in the USA now...which is just odd. I'd rather buy from here for so many reasons and wonder if it'll ever get easier to buy products made here.
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09-28-2011, 04:20 PM | #6 |
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| Some may not like this, but an easy way to avoid many things made in China is to not shop at Walmart. I remember my dd having a homework assignment in elementary school to find five things in our house made in the USA. This was during part of my 9 year boycott of Walmart & wow, that was still a difficult thing! It's hard to find anything American made, I guess Walmart just puts what isn't into one space. I'd love to shop at mom & pop places & Green stores that offer a lot of product made here, but there just aren't many. Pretty sad.
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09-28-2011, 04:56 PM | #7 |
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| I'm with ya Delvish! Seriously I'm so anti consumption right now to be honest. Less is more! My most recent purchases have actually have been "green" and about supporting my local economy, but I lucked out on them being either North American made of European. Marek has began early teething I've been all about safe baby toys so we're really into the Vulli brand from France (buying them at locally owned children's shops) they're awesome we now have Chan, Pie & Gnan, Sophie teethers in vanilla and Milo just got an Ecokids water bottle made in Canada, and Maisy's Jessica McClintock dress just came in the mail (made in the USA!). Of course we are using Broody Chic Diapers made in USA so today we're good thus far! Although I had no planned spending today so yeah I ran around reading labels on my recent purchases just to get an idea of accessing what I have been buying.
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09-28-2011, 05:26 PM | #8 | |
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09-28-2011, 05:33 PM | #9 | |
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I buy USA products when I can and have become much more conscience of where products are made. I also try to buy fair trade items when possible.
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09-28-2011, 05:50 PM | #10 |
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| To be fair I may actually have an easier time of this than most due my location & back ground. I live in Humboldt County California:we're a bunch of greenie fair trade eco-friendly socially concerned tree hugging medical marijuana supporting locals only trend co-op grocery shopping hippies (joking-well kinda really true to a degree) but I still shop at the local mall, am a lil name brand wh@re, despise patchouli oil, wear deodorant, shave my legs, and love Target. I formerly had a small local business and was in two locals business alliances in which we learned about why it is so important to the local economy to support local goods and businesses. I'm going to look into my Canadian goods purchases a lil more though too thanks! EDit: Oh but I totally buy Pumas and Adidas-Italy labor laws and animal rights aren't much better but they are better as well the craft's manship... but refuse Nike-they endorse Michael Vick and besides Nike pulle dout of Flint MI at a critical point and moved to China...
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09-28-2011, 05:51 PM | #11 |
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| Hey now made in Canada is pretty legit too! |
09-28-2011, 05:53 PM | #12 | |
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09-28-2011, 10:09 PM | #13 | |
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But really, what store doesn't have items that are made in China?
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09-28-2011, 10:28 PM | #14 |
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| Small Challenge Taking on what Concretegurl suggested is a big undertaking. For starters, how about we do this as a small challenge, for those that have the time, go to a store website (Target, Walmart, Macy's, anything really) and see if you can find where any item is made. I'm looking at Target.com for the heck of it. I love Target, and wanted to see if they have anything that is not made in China, but I can't even see where any item is made. It's simply not listed. I'll continue to browse in hopes of just finding a "Made in ____" information on any one item.
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09-28-2011, 11:41 PM | #15 |
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| You'll need to read the labels when shopping in person unless you use a site like this a directory: Made in the USA Products Directory or if you buy direct from local to you manufacture stores online like this: Green Toys Inc. - Environmentally Friendly Eco Toys, Safe, No BPA or Phthalates - Made in USA (hint hint-instead of Petsomething store buy an item from a Yorkie talker who manufactures it themselves!) For fun here's some all American web stores:I think most of these are pretty over priced... Welcome to Proud American Trading Post - Where Proud Americans Shop... Made in USA, Made in America, US, American-Made Still Made in USA.com - American-Made Products for Home and Family Unfun fact:Coach the "American" designer brand...Made in China!
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