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?

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

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@greatmidwestcoin wrote:

Absolutely - Good post. We are sick of him.

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James @inhawaii is actually a very kind person, we go back a few years. He gets me and I get him however sometimes he rides the crazy train and I have to get him back on the right track!
 

[inhawaii]

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

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@greatmidwestcoin wrote:

Absolutely - Good post. We are sick of him.

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James @inhawaii is actually a very kind person, we go back a few years. He gets me and I get him however sometimes he rides the crazy train and I have to get him back on the right track!

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 😃

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@onefootflipper1 

Flipper, can I ask a question about fresh eggs? I heard you don't have to refrigerate them as long as there is do-do on the shells, is that correct?

[pikabo-icu]

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

@onefootflipper1 

Flipper, can I ask a question about fresh eggs? I heard you don't have to refrigerate them as long as there is do-do on the shells, is that correct?

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@silverstatetreasureboxes 

I'm not him but...

I raised chickens for eggs for nearly 2 decades.

Fresh unwashed eggs can last up to a month unrefrigerated. 

It's not the doodoo that protects them, it's a special coating that's removed by washing & necessitates the need for refrigerating. 

Of course if you refrigerate the fresh eggs, from the start, they last longer than a month. 

I loved having fresh eggs but Oh my stars they are a bugger to peel when you hard boil them! 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@pikabo-icu 

Thanks pika! See you learn something new everyday. 

[tarotfindsandmore]

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-concerned-trump-may-not-have-chinas-best-interests-at-heart?ut...

[campanaelia]

Haha, The babylonbee, FAKE news.

Nothing they say is the truth...  🤣

[chapeau-noir]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

@onefootflipper1

@chapeau-noir 

Have you read Make the Bread Buy the Butter?
An interesting and amusing book from a writer who did just that - and compared costs and quality- for a large number of household products, during the last recession (2008 -who was your president then?)

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That sounds interesting! I haven't read it, but just pondering cost (a consideration for someone with a lot of people to feed, for instance) versus pleasure...sometimes making the thing itself is a pleasure. For instance, my uncle baked all the bread for his family of 10. It would have been cheaper to buy the stuff in bulk (they didn't have a lot of money), but he enjoyed baking bread, his bread was excellent - you could live on the stuff and it both delicious and healthful - often his youngest would help him with it, standing on a chair so she could reach the counter and help daddy, and they would knead the loaves together.  Now his eldest son bakes the bread - he's at sea a lot in his position as a master marine engineer for a local tug company, working up in Dutch Harbor and Point Barrow and I have a feeling he might be baking up there lol and feeding his shipmates, as a nice pastime. He always brings it to family feasts. 

Sometimes just making a thing ones self adds lots of pleasure.

[onefootflipper1]

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@greatmidwestcoin wrote:

Yet, you have zero items for sale..................... I would guess there is no company in the world that only sells diapers. They would manufacture many paper products items in addition to them. People also have the option of reusable diapers, so there is that.

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I actually have around 12,000 items in my store.

My account has an manual override on it to display my username on my listings the same as my youtube channel "Onefootflipper".  It only displays as Onefootflipper1 on the forums and on my feedback page, and clicking through from the forums is broken as that tries to load a former username.

I assure you I have items for sale.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_ssn=onefootflipper1

[tarotfindsandmore]

Yes dear, that's why it's called "satire".

The Babylon Bee is a conservative Christian news satire website that publishes satirical articles on topics including religion, politics, current events, and public figures. It has been referred to as a Christian or conservative version of The Onion.[1][2]

[chapeau-noir]

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@campanaelia wrote:

Haha, The babylonbee, FAKE news.

Nothing they say is the truth...  🤣

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@campanaelia  The Babylon Bee is parody satire site, like The Onion or The Borowitz report and pretty darned funny. Its been around for quite a while. Check it out.

ETA: https://babylonbee.com/news/leftist-protestors-unaffected-by-trumps-showerhead-deregulation   

https://babylonbee.com/news/get-a-load-of-this-white-knighting-simp-saving-a-princess-from-a-dragon

😁  It's pretty pointed humour.

[tarotfindsandmore]

I like yours better. 😂

[onefootflipper1]

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@greatmidwestcoin wrote:

Yeah, your car statement rings false. I am near 70 and know all too well how car manufacturing quality has dramatically increased. Cars used to rust within years. I certainly don't miss carburetors. Today, I am driving a Traverse that I bought new in 2010. I have never had the same car for 15 years. I used to have to trade them in every 5-7 years. Yet this car still runs great and looks great - not a spot of rust. Very little repairs. I would guess it will last another 15 years.

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I totally agree that they make them so much better now than they used to.  That doesn't change the fact that people will absolutely scrap cars because they don't want to pay a repair bill, those cars are just older now.

My 2005 Toyota minivan didn't have a spec of rust underneath when we retired it at 18 years old, even though we live in the Midwest. However the 1986 Dodge/Mitsubishi minitruck I bought in 1996 had already had the floors and front fenders replaced to repair rust.  The cars my family drives today without a care in the world are far older than the average age of the car in my high school parking lot back in 1993. My wife daily drives a 20 year old toyota. There were only 2 kids in my entire school that had cars that old back in 1993.

Oddly enough, I currently own another 1986 Dodge / Mitsubishi minitruck and it doesn't have a speck of rust on it, even the frame and suspension components are still pretty much black.

[campanaelia]

I guess I don't read entertainment news, never have, including the onion.

Really no need to now, there's enough entertainment with the current administration.

[tarotfindsandmore]

Yes, because YouTube is serious reporting, almost as thorough and in-depth as Yahoo. 🤣🤣🤣

Back to the topic at hand...

https://babylonbee.com/news/local-dad-manages-to-change-diaper-with-mere-427-wipes

We should probably be hoarding wipes if anything (not really!!)