Has your day to day life been outsourced?

[Stinky The Clown]

I've asked this question before.

Look around the room you're in right now. What is in it that was made in the last 10 years that was also made in America?

[freshwest]

1. Despite all my efforts to buy American, almost nothing. I have to go to thrift stores to get things.

[slackmaster]

2. I'm sitting at a bar that's been here since 1948

Pretty much everything in sight was made in the USA or Mexico.

[PDJane]

3. The table and the cleaning stuff and most of the books were from Canada or the US.

The shelves, the chairs and other storage were made in places like China......and Poland, the Ukraine, and other places. The bike is made in Holland, and the Aeron chair was made in the USA. The wool yarn in the corner was made in England, France and the USA, and the needlework fabrics are mostly made in Germany. The synthetic floss was made in Egypt, and the cotton floss in France. The glass bottles were made in Portugal.

A lot of the needlework accessories were made in Canada and the US, or are antiques from Britain and Europe, as are a number of other bits and pieces. The low-maintenance cat was made in a small factory in Canada.

And yes, it's not from here, but a lot of these things were not made in low wage havens; it's about half and half, I think.