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In reply to the discussion: Are you going to change your buying practices because of the Bangladesh building collapse? [View all]PD Turk
(1,289 posts)24. I do my best
I buy just about all my clothes at second hand stores and try to buy all my socks USA made. And it's not just clothes, I try to buy American or do without on as much stuff as I can.
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Are you going to change your buying practices because of the Bangladesh building collapse? [View all]
cali
Apr 2013
OP
Same here. People just have to bear with me wearing the same clothes, washed until threadbare.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#85
Buy less clothing, and anything else I don't need, that is made by masses of people slaving away.
reformist2
Apr 2013
#7
Cali, if you have a little time, it's just a matter of practise and I would also
Ecumenist
May 2013
#95
yeah, who wan't to exert an extra bit of effort to avoid buying things steeped in the death of
cali
Apr 2013
#22
You're saying that reading the label on a garment is too onerous a chore for you?
MADem
Apr 2013
#28
Certainly--but it's a start. The poster expresses an unwillingness to do even that small thing.
MADem
Apr 2013
#45
because people dying for your cheap trolly clothes, is just dandy with you, right honeypoo?
cali
Apr 2013
#21
Made the change many years ago. We buy very few clothes. Mr. Brickbat works in a blue-collar job
Brickbat
Apr 2013
#23
People who consume first-world-made stuff by preference are part of the problem, I think.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2013
#31
Americans don't want to pay the price of giving someone a living wage for ANYTHING
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#50
but the cost of most consumer goods is much higher everywhere else in the civilized world
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#78
"it's exceedingly difficult to know if an article made in a poor country..." all of a sudden you
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#80
so you never buy underwear or socks? interesting the number of people here claiming that.
cali
Apr 2013
#42
exactly- half the food we consume is picked and processed in dangerous and unhealthy conditions!
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#83
A billboard picture of burning girls jumping out of windows placed in front of Walmart...
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#39
I think it comes down to whether you care more about the US standard of living or take a global
bettyellen
Apr 2013
#90