Posted on 01/04/2009 6:02:37 AM PST by Megben
Trent Hamm at thesimpledollar.com writes in his January 3 entry (excerpted) : "For those of you who haven’t heard the news yet, on February 10, 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act comes into effect. One of the major changes that this program will bring into play is a mandate that everything sold for children 12 and younger will have to be tested for lead and phthalates, and anything that isn’t tested (or that fails) will be considered hazardous and cannot be sold. Read more about the CPSIA at the L.A. Times and some interesting blog commentary from the fashion industry. Where things get interesting is with used products. Consider your local resale and thrift shop. Currently, all of their secondhand children’s clothes will have to be tested for lead and phthalates. Given that many such stores aren’t high-income operations - many are nonprofits - these shops simply cannot afford to do the testing on the children’s clothes on their shelves.
So what happens? Most thrift shops are currently not accepting any children’s clothing at all. Sometime in the next month or so, all thrift shops will have to clear all of their children’s clothing from the shelves … and send them to the landfill. (It’s worth noting that the Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a reprieve for products made from natural materials, which would exempt some clothes, but not nearly all clothes"
From reading the whole article, it appears that this will apply to used/new products that are sold at garage sales, thrift stores, ebay, etc. The discussion that follows the blog posts lists going to the sites of the National Bankruptcy Day or the Handmade Toy Alliance Site to write your congressman/woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesimpledollar.com ...
Mom Ping..............
One of 2 things will likely happen here.........Congress will see the error of its way (FAT CHANCE) and at least make an exemption for the resale industry or there will be massive sales at thrift and secondhand stores.
First there are proposed regulations to tax cow and pig farts and now we cannot donate our kids outgrown clothes to Vincent dePaul or Good Will. Reagan had it right we need to get government off people’s backs and out of their pocketbooks. Now if we can get some GOP leadership to once again follow this ideal.
I sure would like to know where you buy your textiles. Even in the high end stores, I never see any clothing made in the USA.
once again I will quote the evil Planned Parenthood.
“keep your laws off of my body”
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Yes, this will effect garage sales.
A LA Times story said that the rules will affect garage sales and clothing sold on ebay.
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1286740389
When I read this thread, I immediately thought this was a hoax (no offense to the poster). After googling the story, I found out that it is true.
We really need mandatory labeling of source country including all ingredients for all food and drug products.
Otherwise we get this:
http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN-suppliers/Health_Food.html
http://www.alibaba.com/catalogs/23005/Nutrient_Additives.html
Alibaba is owned by Yahoo and is one of the largest online sourcing sites in the world.
They already tax our homes (shelter), they tax our groceries (food), so why not tax our clothing as well. Our government has successfully taxed every staple of self-preservation. Samuel Adams would be burning down some ivory towers over this crappola.
On loophole...I LIKE IT!!!
“So who voted for this and who voted against it?”
Obviously Bush the idiot signed it, what more do we need to know.
And yet the baby formula full the “any amount is dangerous, but better than starving your baby” melomine is okee dokee.
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They weren't so healthy. Mary was blind from a disease that could have been cured in a day with an antibiotic. The entire family nearly died from Malaria. Laura's younger sister had trouble learning is school after they all nearly starved through a hard winter. Ma had a log fall on her leg a hundred miles from the nearest white person. Pa's friend nearly died from gas poisoning while digging a well. Laura had a small pelvis ( likely due to poor nutrition) and nearly died in childbirth. He baby son did die. Laura and her husband only had the one child, Rose. Given the nonexistent birth control of those days I can just imagine what their marrital sex life was like.
Yeah! Great life. Life was hard, painful, and short!
By the way, on Tuesday I noticed a small pimple-like thing on my skin. Wednesday it was 3X the size and I was feeling like I had a mild flu. Thursday it was 3X larger again and I was beginning to feel a lot sicker. Friday, I had surgery, IV antibiotics, a pack and drain, and still don't feel that well even with Tylenol and Ibuprofen every four hours.
Hopefully, I won't die, but I surely would be in the funeral home by now without access to modern medicine.
No problem. I thought it was a hoax too. I went through at least an hour of research before posting it.
Made in USA companies and buy from them
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But....The materials used to construct the clothing are not likely to be entirely US made.
Maybe thrift stores could resell childrens’ clothing as clothing for adult midgets?
This is clearly an expensive and assinine law. It's what happens when you have an hysterical press stampeding the legislature guided by interested parties: the retailers and importers. There are at least two childrens' thrift shops within a short drive from my home. My wife buys tons of stuff for grandkids, grand-nephews & -neices. The have draws and draws of nearly new cute cloths.
My grandson has cartons of Brio train stuff he never would have gotten new.
Now they'll have a lot less stuff and a lot less choice, but Target and the Chi-coms will make a few bucks.
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