I'm lucky to have an All American Store close by and this is where we did most of our Christmas shopping last year.
I always support our local store and try to only buy American made but sometimes it's so hard to understand the packaging info as to where exactly it's been made.
Great topic.
hugs, -missy-
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan
I am so into this. I read every label and I buy local as much as possible too. Also in my Etsy shop I always ask folks to support the little guys and not the sweatshops in china.
My guilty indulgence in the spring are these little sweet peppers... Well if I can't buy local I try to stick to USA so I checked where the peppers came from and it was Mexico, no offense to Mexico but I really wanted my produce to at least stay "in country" so I went to the other grocery store and just randomly checked to see if they had sweet peppers too and they did! Best part they came from the US not just "distributed by" they actually were grown in the US and said so on the package! That was the first and last time up to this point that I was able to get US grown little sweet peppers out of season here in WI. I was pretty excited about that :)
Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee. ~Author Unknown
I recently bought some Libby glasses because they were made in the USA. Much to my dismay - nearly all of them have cracked or broken. I was so disappointed. I won't give up, but dang it.
Just a note regarding our rebuild. We have been checking our builders supplies and nearly everything so far has been made in the USA or Canada. He says he won't "use that crap from China." I knew I picked a good builder.
interesting posts, yeah for the lightbulbs from Cleveland(NE Ohio here) and LIbby Glass(am originally from Toledo area) we have a small store here in Parma that only sells stuff made in the USA, my family were blue collar workers and it upsets me to see jobs go out of the country when so many are hurting for work.
It can be next to impossible to find electronics and related things that were made in the US, but this headphone company is getting rave reviews. http://sleek-audio.com/ I read an article about them and when they first started out they manufactured in China like everyone else. However, they had continual quality control difficulties because they were working with one manufacturer but that manufacturer was subcontracting all the little components so not even the company could keep track of where everything was coming from. They decided to bring the manufacturing back to the US to keep an eye on the whole process and since then their products have been getting awards all over. They are expensive so I haven't bought any yet but I plan to. What makes them unique is that the cords are replaceable. I have to replace the cheap headphones every few months because the cords break or the wires inside get disconnected. I'd much rather buy a superior product that comes from a company I approve of and then replace just the one component as needed.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Bertrand Russell
buy USA made
Posted - Mar 17 2012 : 3:10:27 PM
