When I consider how much junk and stuff most people own, we should be able to manage quite well by not buying from China for a while.
It’s time to learn to be resourceful and fix things and improvise again.
Garage sales are great places to find good slightly or never used things. If we could just et over our *Gotta have the latest and greatest* fetish.
“It’s time to learn to be resourceful and fix things and improvise again.”
My brother starts a new job next week at a huge tech company we all know (and many hate, but not Google). Anyway, my advice, should he ask is the following, with regard to how the company should deal with the loss of imports from China:
1 - Do not throw away anything. Tag-it and store it, there will be plenty of warehouse space opening up soon, and very cheap rents. Figure that even old/obsolete hardware can be made to work (possibly with some new software), maybe not as good/snazzy as the latest stuff, but functional. Even stuff that is completely broken can often be cannibalized.
2 - Hire electronics techs for the above and start familiarizing them with the hardware, and do it now, they will be in HUGE demand soon.
There is SOME wiggle room there, indeed. A pretty good % of what I own fits your description. (Cars, fishing gear, electronics, etc.)
Repair PARTS however, may be a problem. Pretty tough to rebuild a brake pad yourself...
Forgot (almost) to get back to this.
Yes, some of my best “stuff” (electronics, fishing gear, etc.) has come from yard sales.