Reply #19: So would I dammit! [View All]

I remember my mother's Rubbermaid products and my father's Craftsman hand tools lasting decades - with guarantees on their service. Try to find that guarantee on a cheap import.

The knowledgeably thrifty Scottish side of my lineage asks the question: "How many times do you want to pay for that item?" You get what you pay for.

I would also pay higher prices for products while knowing that I am diminishing welfare and unemployment enrollment among people I know and care about. At the same time my family buys its coffee and chocolate from the organic and fair trade market because of the cost benefit to the in-the-trenches producer. The lower cost at Wal-Mart and other retailers is not worth the product and the peripheral casualties that result from my money going toward corporate crap.