What's your next Made in China purchase?

[BarkingGhostar]

Don't think about what the Chinese make and then if you want to buy it, but rather what is your next major purchase (e.g. US$100 or more) that just happens to be made in China (let's include Taiwan, too).

Makes no difference if the company is American, Japanese, etc., but where the item is manufactured. Could America survive one year without buying stuff from China? Asking from a cultural aspect, not an economic.political aspect.

 

[kranky]

Just last night, pair of dress shoes for work. I don't mind stretching a bit for made in US items, but the options in the store were over $300 and that's too much for me.

Although in the future I could order online from My Ana-Tech to get US-made shoes. http://www.myanatech.com/catalog/mens/index.php but they are also pricey.

 

[Anubis]

my next China purchase will be a plane ticket to China

have to go over and fix some things because apparently Plugging A into B and then B into C is too god damn complicated for them

 

[CraKaJaX]

There's a 90% chance that whatever it is, is made in China.

 

[SP33Demon]

My next purchases actually are made in Ohio. Rogue Fitness manufactures all their bars and power racks here which is awesome. Next China purchase over 100 will be a new fridge and washer. And the Instant Pot, although I hear that's Canadian (probably manufactured in China tho).

 

[Gunbuster]

It would be a cheap 4K TV to use as a monitor if they could get their act together. The Walmart Hisense was looking good until I read it throws out 50% of the frames on the claimed 4K 60Hz and has terrible almost half second input lag.

 

[CraKaJaX]

And the Instant Pot, although I hear that's Canadian (probably manufactured in China tho).

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

You will not regret this purchase.

 

[PliotronX]

Probably a Tp-Link smart switch.

 

[Nograts]

Is Oculus Rift made in China? If so that, not any time soon.

I live a very boring life...

 

[maddogchen]

A snickers bar. All the peanuts grown in china

 

[shortylickens]

disposable penis.

 

[BurnItDwn]

US could certainly survive without Chinas manufacturing. The US has shittons of manufacturing still, but generally more difficult things to manufacture. If the "easy" to manufacture stuff was no longer being made in a place with no labor laws, no environmental laws, and a brutal dictatorship, then the US would be able to increase capacity. In fact, that would probably fix the US economy to a large extent.

 

[lxskllr]

Just bought a modem, and haven't received it yet. Future? Probably new computer parts. My desktop's getting really flaky. Last time I looked inside, I had at least one bulging cap. I usually buy Chinese as a last resort, but there aren't many alternatives for electronics.

 

[SSSnail]

Is the Fleshlight made in China? :hmm:

 

[Naer]

Sex robot

 

[maddogchen]

next time you buy and eat a deboned frozen fish, that fish was probably frozen and shipped to China, thawed, deboned, refrozen and shipped back to make it to your freezer. All at a cheaper cost than deboning it here or in Canada.

 

[maddogchen]

thousands of people will be lining up this month for a new iphone.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

"Hoors laddie, t'ousands n t'ousands o' hoors!"

 

[SlitheryDee]

I don't even know what my next major purchase will be. It'll probably be made in china though. And yes, I believe america could survive one year without buying stuff from china, and would be stronger for it. I don't know what you mean by "from a cultural aspect" though. My perception is that the majority of chinese goods are largely bereft of any cultural earmarks besides those of the companies that designed them. Chinese cinema seems to be growing in popularity in other countries though. That probably has more cultural influence than most chinese manufactured goods.

 

[BurnItDwn]

thousands of people will be lining up this month for a new iphone.

They really ought to build them better so that they last longer. People lining up to get a new phone just sounds like such a terrible and stupid thing.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

It would be harder to name something that isn't made in China.

 

[maddogchen]

It would be harder to name something that isn't made in China.

Furniture comes to mind. Lots of expensive furniture made by Amish.

For other things, even if its assembled in the US, a lot of things will still have parts that come from China.

 

[Murloc]

US could certainly survive without Chinas manufacturing. The US has shittons of manufacturing still, but generally more difficult things to manufacture. If the "easy" to manufacture stuff was no longer being made in a place with no labor laws, no environmental laws, and a brutal dictatorship, then the US would be able to increase capacity. In fact, that would probably fix the US economy to a large extent.

That would mean that we can't buy as much shit as we buy now though, even if you open the floodgates from Mexico to try and lower the wages of the low-tech factory workers.

I don't even know what my next major purchase will be. It'll probably be made in china though. And yes, I believe america could survive one year without buying stuff from china, and would be stronger for it. I don't know what you mean by "from a cultural aspect" though. My perception is that the majority of chinese goods are largely bereft of any cultural earmarks besides those of the companies that designed them. Chinese cinema seems to be growing in popularity in other countries though. That probably has more cultural influence than most chinese manufactured goods.

in one year I don't think it's even possible to ramp up production to chinese scale in order to achieve decent prices (still double than China).

I agree there is no cultural aspect in not being able to buy stuff from china. A computer is a computer. Actually american cultural aspects are the strongest in these even if they're made in China.
I never use inches except for screen sizes and computer slot sizes.

Several chinese martial arts movies are pretty great and worth watching.

 

[BurnItDwn]

That would mean that we can't buy as much shit as we buy now though, even if you open the floodgates from Mexico to try and lower the wages of the low-tech factory workers.

Since stuff would last longer and be built better , we wouldn't need to buy as much of it.

 

[SlitheryDee]

in one year I don't think it's even possible to ramp up production to chinese scale in order to achieve decent prices (still double than China).

Absolutely it's not, but I didn't say we'd have just as much stuff for sale. Domestic companies would spend that year feverishly trying to fill the void left by the lack of chinese products. They'd fall short of that, but the result would still be a massive increase in manufacturing capability and the jobs that went with it. That's why I think the country would be stronger.