Posted on 03/28/2022 5:01:34 PM PDT by blam
We could easily use hemp but the elites don’t want that.
Nowadays, if I don’t absolutely need something, I don’t buy it. I think I’m actually saving money now.
Nudists win again
Good Will Stores.
When the weather warms up I am going to go around wearing only
a loincloth and a baseball cap, - in protest.
No - only joking... (I had you fooled for a moment there though, didn't I?)
Between modern morals and global warming we won’t need to wear as many clothes.
I have enough clothes that I’ll be fine if I don’t buy anything next year, or the year after.
My daughter, on the other hand....
Supply chains are wildly complex, driven by tax breaks, subsidies, politics and bizarre considerations having nothing to do with efficiency. An example I studied for my MBA tracked cotton across the world on cargo planes to something like ten destinations. Picked in Egypt it went to some tiny Iland to be carded and then to India to be spun and then to another island to be chemically treated, then to Korea (I think) to be woven into cloth, then to Vietnam to be made into a t-shirt blank, then to Italy for printing and a designer logo, then to New York to be distributed to Walmart stores. Each destination had some reasoning that usually wasn’t about profit. Part of this was because fuel was cheap. Labor was cheap where it was being performed. There was no EPA where chemicals were involved, etc.
The current crisis, precipitated in whole or part by Joe Biden, will cause every company to rethink why they do things the way they do and there will be some huge losers, like some tiny island nations that only have one factory. Before you say something like, “Good. Buy American” or something along those lines, remember that today every person threatened with job loss or starvation can get to Mexico and be helped across our border and relocated to the house next to yours.
My old jeans will be worth millions!
Most of the clothes are some man-made material now. Poly this and poly that, propy*** etc.
...and I thought that I was world traveler. Seems my jeans are far ahead of me. I shall treat them with respect starting now.
I have 4 new pairs bought right after Christmas.
With me being limited due to surgery recovery that isn’t quite over, I’ve lost about 60 pounds.
A 5th pair I’ve worn a few times look so baggy.
I’m about to clean out my closets and give everything to Goodwill. Everyone did the same, folks could go without buying anything new for years. Hell, 1995 fashions were just fine.
Bingo!
“ Nowadays, if I don’t absolutely need something, I don’t buy it. I think I’m actually saving money now.”
We are doing the same thing.
“ Nowadays, if I don’t absolutely need something, I don’t buy it. I think I’m actually saving money now.”
‘We are doing the same thing.’
I am doing the exact opposite.
When I see things that I know that I will need in the future I am buying them now.
“ Nowadays, if I don’t absolutely need something, I don’t buy it. I think I’m actually saving money now.”
We are doing the same thing.
Where they grow the cotton in West Texas, the soils are too sandy.
“When I see things that I know that I will need in the future I am buying them now.”
The correct personal strategery for Big Time Inflation.
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