Posted on 11/23/2007 3:44:32 PM PST by Lexinom
This website has done some research at Toys R Us and has a list of toys that are made in America:
Duplos (I think) are made in Canada. For toddlers.
Lots of music and music equipment is made right here in the U.S.A. - guitars, amps, mics, etc. Finer-quality orchestral instruments are made in Europe and Japan.
I recently bought a couple of professional studio microphones for recording piano from CAD out of Cleveland, Ohio - based AND made there. They were the same price as a competing Chinese-made type (called "Perception" fittingly enough), and have better specs. Better quality, same price Had I just bought the Chinese ones without looking further (for that and other reasons) I would have been stuck with an inferior product.
However, I did find one made in the USA:
Candle-lite
A Lancaster Colony Company
Cincinnati, Ohio
Wow...we are on a roll tonight. LOL!
Candles make an excellent gift, BTW.
For Michael A Velli/All, Partial database of merchants selling American-made toys
In the U.S. shop at (Guitar Center).
Beware of "Sam Ash" Music..It's run by greedy foreigners that treat their employees like crap.
Separated at birth?????
My joy of giving does not extend to Red China, so I will be giving my grandchildren money for Christmas this year, in addition to Bill Bennett’s “America, the Last Best Hope” - unrevised American History. Their parents pose a slightly more difficult problem. :)
Thanks for the heads-up about Sam Ash. I'll remember that.
>We live on trade. To forsake it is to die.<
Because of a atupid, faulty trade agreement with Red China, the U.S. suffers billions in trade deficits every year! We are dying by trade with them, my friend.
BTW, thanks for the link in #22. Awesome...I have a new grandchild and I just saw great gifts and I can buy American from right where I sit. Doesn't get any better than that!
You’re welcome! I have four grandboys, ages 5 and under. I will be using the list extensively.
Local craft fairs are full of locally made handcrafted and artisan items.
Pendleton Wool Mills blankets are still made in Pendleton, not the clothes though, the fabric is still made in the US, but they are sewn in Mexico now I believe. They still buy raw wool from local ranchers too.
Legos, from Denmark. Remember the Muhammad cartoonists!
Maglite flashlights are American made:
http://www.maglite.com/strengthen.asp
Mag Instrument is the only flashlight company with significant market share that still manufacturers its entire line of flashlights in the United States. Unlike its competitors, Mag Instrument has chosen not to outsource the manufacturing of its flashlights to foreign countries in order to take advantage of cheap labor and less stringent environmental standards, which may also result in inferior quality.
The outsourcing of manufacturing by other U.S. companies has caused hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of jobs in the United States to be lost. Indeed, if Mag Instrument had chosen the path of other flashlight companies, the jobs of its approximately 800 employees in Ontario, California would have been lost.
This is not a complete list of American-made items, but there is certainly a diverse variety of choices to make just about any child in America happy that might otherwise go without this Christmas. By buying American-made toys, games and sports-equipment this year, you’ll be supporting American workers by ensuring they get pay checks instead of pink slips, which will enable them to be able to afford Christmas gifts for their own children. There is no better way to break the cycle of using one underprivileged child to provide for another underprivileged child.
Not so dumb, IMO.
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