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Not Made in China

One Family Living Without "Made in China"

How we stopped buying Made in China…

In February, 2006, our family decided to stop buying things made in China (“MiC”).  Completely.  We weren’t sure if it would be possible, if people would think we were crazy.  But in February 2006, our (now) 9 year-old’s Made-in-China (Gary Fisher) bicycle was the last pre-NMIC (“Not made in China”) purchase we made.  Not quite the last product made-in-China – see the box below – but just about.

OK, we’re not an entirely typical family in every respect, but pretty close. 1 house, 2 parents, 3 kids, 4 pet fish, a minivan, a schedule full of soccer, gymnastics, piano lessons, and church.  Weekdays spent waiting for Saturday (and work to end), and weekends spent waiting for Monday (and school to start). 

We think there a lot of good reasons to read the label when spending your hard-earned dollars.  This website gives some of those reasons, tells our story, and provides you with some tools if you want to start thinking about taking country of origin of the things you buy into account.  It's been over 2 years, and we're still going strong!

Buying Not Made in China (NMiC) has been great for our family, and has allowed us to exercise a measure of ethical judgment in our spending choices.  See our FAQ for answers to the most common questions about NMiC, but here on the NMiC Home Page, let me answer just one – Do you really think it makes a difference?  Well, I don’t think the Communist Party Central Committee has a task force working overtime to address our family’s spending choices, but I do think we make a difference, in 2 ways:

1.It makes a difference to us – that is, we know that we’re doing what we believe to be right with the resources we have been entrusted with.  Maybe it’s a “sleep soundly at night” sort of answer, but each of us ultimately is accountable for our individual choices. I believe that great evils (like the World Wars) and times of great good (like the abolition of slavery) are more the result of the sum of many small choices made by many people than of the great leaders and big events.

Michael Jackson’s The Man in the Mirror says, “if you want to change the world, take a look at yourself and make the change.”  Not that I consider Michael a source of spiritual guidance, but for once, he’s right on – the only real power to change we have is in ourselves.

2. We’re proof that it is (about 99.5%) possible to live NMiC, and even if the people we meet don’t engage in NMiC as completely as we have, next time they have a choice between two items, maybe they’ll buy the one made in USA, or in a democratic country like El Salvador. 

Found at http://www.notmadeinchinalife.com/