Anyone loading up on diapers?

[onefootflipper1]

There is soon going to be a massive diaper shortage (unless the tariff's are flip flopped). China makes 29 percent of our diapers. America does not have the capacity to make up for the shortfall.

This means that diapers are first going to vanish from the shelves entirely and then become way more expensive once they do appear.

From everything I have been reading most companies importing complete products from China have been refusing delivery rather than pay an additional 140 percent of the money that they already paid for the products.

So, just wondering if anyone is going to be stocking up in order to sell them later?

[tarotfindsandmore]

---

@chapeau-noir wrote:.

But wouldn't it be just funny if we decided not to wear cheap, throw-away garments and started wearing durable, well made stuff again that was made here, paying more for it but having it last longer? Gosh!

---

What a novel idea! 🙂

I still have my pre 2003 Levi's and even my Chemin de Fer jeans from the late 1970s tucked away in storage somewhere, in pretty much the same condition they were when I bought them.

[pikabo-icu]

---

@chapeau-noir wrote:

In a further entanglement, China is now outsourcing to Vietnam because - surprise surprise! It has a cheaper workforce.

Kenya, Uganda, as well as India have been cloth producing powerhouses for millennia - expanding clothing manufacturing wouldn't be a natural outgrowth.

But wouldn't it be just funny if we decided not to wear cheap, throw-away garments and started wearing durable, well made stuff again that was made here, paying more for it but having it last longer? Gosh!

---

@chapeau-noir 

I AGREE!!!!

Have you ever seen a doc on the catastrophic amount of disposable clothing in places like India etc...?

It's SAD and disgusting!  

Those folks are stuck with MOUNTAINS of decaying, moldering clothes.

They can't give it away.   It's awful. 

Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without!  

[toysaver]

Cloth has been used for centuries in comparison to paper products.   Humanity will get along fine without disposable diapers.  It may even be good for the environment.  

[onefootflipper1]

I thought pretty long and hard about the "stuff market" but the thing is that most of the non-supply stuff we buy is optional, it could be delayed significantly or not purchased entirely.

Most people have enough clothes where they could stop purchasing them for a very long time. Sure kids go through clothes quicker, but if you triple the price of kids clothes then I think all the middle and lower class mothers will be doing a lot more trading and visiting garage sales than they used to.

If you use your toaster all the time and it breaks then you will probably buy another one, even if the base model is now $80. However if your toaster works fine, but is a little ratty looking or doesn't match the decor then you just might punt that purchase to the future.

Cars could last a lot longer too. Many cars end up in the salvage yard years earlier than they should because the owner just didn't want to pay for the latest repair.

[kensgiftshop]

Did thy ever lift the ban on diapers?

[inhawaii]

Thank you Donald Trump.

I never thought just one man could create so much chaos.

[inhawaii]

You know how the Trump administration suggested raising your own chickens during the egg shortage, well maybe people should start using washable cloth diapers again during the diaper shortage.

Thank you Donald Trump.

[pikabo-icu]

---

@inhawaii wrote:

You know how the Trump administration suggested raising your own chickens during the egg shortage, well maybe people should start using washable cloth diapers again during the diaper shortage.

Thank you Donald Trump.

---

Not to be that person but...

There isn't a shortage of diapers.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@inhawaii 

You know we get it James you are a Democrat.  The moderators have laid down the law and do not want any political rhetoric on this selling forum. This is not the chat room this is for selling on ebay and this is another posters thread. Please respect this.

[inhawaii]

---

@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

@inhawaii 

You know we get it James you are a Democrat.  The moderators have laid down the law and do not want any political rhetoric on this selling forum. This is not the chat room this is for selling on ebay and this is another posters thread. Please respect this.

---

Actually I'm not a Democrat.

But I will try to keep my posts related to the topic.

[kensgiftshop]

---

@inhawaii wrote:

You know how the Trump administration suggested raising your own chickens during the egg shortage, well maybe people should start using washable cloth diapers again during the diaper shortage.

Thank you Donald Trump.

---

As high as diapers are and as fast as they go through them, if I had to do it now, I'd use cloth diapers again.

Chickens, they are trying to get it so we can have them in town.

Had some a few years ago but they made me get rid of them.

[chapeau-noir]

---

@onefootflipper1 wrote:

I thought pretty long and hard about the "stuff market" but the thing is that most of the non-supply stuff we buy is optional, it could be delayed significantly or not purchased entirely.

Most people have enough clothes where they could stop purchasing them for a very long time. Sure kids go through clothes quicker, but if you triple the price of kids clothes then I think all the middle and lower class mothers will be doing a lot more trading and visiting garage sales than they used to.

If you use your toaster all the time and it breaks then you will probably buy another one, even if the base model is now $80. However if your toaster works fine, but is a little ratty looking or doesn't match the decor then you just might punt that purchase to the future.

Cars could last a lot longer too. Many cars end up in the salvage yard years earlier than they should because the owner just didn't want to pay for the latest repair.

---

This is the upside to this that occurred to me almost immediately.

We're a nation of stuffaholics - when there are reports of punch-ups at Wally World and people getting trampled just to get to the latest plastic electronic widget from China, it says not much good about our society.

[tools*]

I'm planning to market a line of CEO diapers.

[hartungcards]

Don't count your chickens until after you have to get rid of them.

[onefootflipper1]

In general raising your own chickens is more expensive than just buying eggs, it is the economy of scale that makes it so cheap at the massive level.

Egg shortage is due to a chicken shortage, so it isn't like there are a bunch of extra egg laying hens for you to purchase anyway.