Hi Nath,

Glad you find the site useful, great to have you here!

Your suggestions are great. I'm finding, for example, that sometimes you can buy something "used" on eBay that will outlast the newest things made in China. It's amazing not just how sloppy American brands have become, but how consumers have gone along with it without asking questions.

I have an old citrus juicer that my dad bought in the 1970s. It still works today. It's an ugly green color that was popular 50 years ago. But the thing is built like a tank. Solid metal construction all around, and powerful motors you know were all made in the USA. By contrast, I bought a China juicer and it didn't last 5 years before I had to throw it in the trash.

That's why you see a lot of industrial equipment still made in the USA. Consumers are easily taken advantage of, but a business that relies on equipment not breaking will not stand for substandard products.

I hope people wake up (and I didn't realize that ash could be used to make laundry soap--that's so cool). I think you hit the nail on the head that the secret to not being dependent on China has very little to do with China and everything about the way we have gotten used to everything being disposable. In many ways we need to go back to how our grandparents lived, wasting nothing and living wisely.

Thanks again!
Steve

Hello everyone.

I just discovered this website, such a great idea !

It's wonderful to have all those alternatives to CCP products in one website, let's hope the list is getting longer and more people get concerned about it. We should not give our money to a regime than kills their own people (if you don't know about it, do a research on "forced organ harvesting" on Dafoh : Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting) and buy cheap things made in labour camps by prisoners of conscience such as Falun Gong, Ouighours, Tibetans and Christians.

Alternatives to made in China products can be very costly as we pay the real price for it. The quality is generally much better but it's not always easy to have enough money for it. So here are some of my tips to have some other alternatives that reduce the cost of some of the things we need in order to keep a budget for some others.

- second hand : buy second-hand clothes, furnitures or anything you need. For example, I sometimes found some Canada-made sweaters or Italian-made skirt at the second-hand shop here in Canada. It's high quality for an incredible price.

- free laundry soap : as I heat my house with a fire wood stove, I have plenty of ashes. I use it to make my free laundry soap, so easy with only 2 ingredients : ashes and water (you may add fragrance if you wish to). I adjusted my recipe through the years and made it so simple and easy to prepare, it only takes 5 min to prepare a big batch that lasts for a few months.

- Home made products such as tooth powder (made with a few ingredients such as clay, ashes, cloves and baking soda)

I guess many other people have other ideas, just feel free to share them on this forum.