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?

[campanaelia]

Sure beats the dailymail and the dailycaller... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And for the most part yahoo mainly host news for other news sites. It's always better to link through yahoo to avoid all the ads and subscriptions pop ups elsewhere.

Edit: "The Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.[7] It was founded by political commentator Tucker Carlson and political advisor Neil Patel in 2010"

[tarotfindsandmore]

Agreed, for likely the first and last time.

[roccotacodad54]

    Also there's water glassing them (hydrated lime). If kept in a cool dark place water glassed eggs should keep for well over a year. Old time method for storing eggs.

[chapeau-noir]

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@onefootflipper1 wrote:

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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.

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Used to be having 100,000 miles on a car was a huge deal. When I was a kid we had a series of jalopies we'd rumble around in and I don't recall really getting any more miles than that, despite keeping them up.

My 1997 Subaru wagon has 214,000+ miles and runs great - I take it in for proper maintenance and the Subaru place says we should expect 300,000, anyway.

My only gripe is that they're impossible for a backyard mechanic like me to work on with my handy Chilton's, but it's been like that for a while. The last car I could do my own maintenance on was my 1979 Ford truck that had a Nissan body. That thing was like snap-together and the only thing I couldn't fix on it was what needed a hoist. I even sort of fixed the muffler, though just temporarily with a C-clamp lol - I had to take it in for that. The Nissan body, though - I had to replace a headlight and to do that, it required disassembly of almost the entire bumper assembly. Tons of little screws, pulling off the grill, etc. etc.*

Now I look under the hood and yeah, I can change the oil because it's a 1997, but I just have it done on maintenance.

I think I'd rather have the long-running car and take it in once in a while than something I have to fix all the time, though.

*Again, it reminded me of a Red Green episode.  

[campanaelia]

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@tarotfindsandmore wrote:

Agreed, for likely the first and last time.

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I doubt it's the last time 😉

[lastade*]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

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

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I enjoy sewing and I sell my items in the summer at the local Farmers Market.  Diapers are something I could make.  If there were a shortage I would certainly sew some and maybe make a little profit.

[johnrj1226]

Maybe  those  washable diapers and diaper pals will become popular again.  Our 50 yo+ daughters didn't know  any thing but on their butts but were potty trained early - gotta' watch out for the diaper rash though.  Hope safety pins don't become  scarce.  Wonder  what all those people do that live off the  grid or in Alaska.

PS.  In our  lil ole Dog Patch Georgie a county of 130K now - we  have a factory that makes disposal diapers that work 24 hours, 7 day/per week  - and a General Mills Cheerio making place.

On the other hand,  it  has been reported the Z generation only plan to have 1 child per household = problem solved -  us boomers had a lot more than that.  Had 3  with my older and newer wives (combined)

[roccotacodad54]

    That says so much.

[onefootflipper1]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

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@onefootflipper1 wrote:

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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.

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Used to be having 100,000 miles on a car was a huge deal. When I was a kid we had a series of jalopies we'd rumble around in and I don't recall really getting any more miles than that, despite keeping them up.

My 1997 Subaru wagon has 214,000+ miles and runs great - I take it in for proper maintenance and the Subaru place says we should expect 300,000, anyway.

My only gripe is that they're impossible for a backyard mechanic like me to work on with my handy Chilton's, but it's been like that for a while. The last car I could do my own maintenance on was my 1979 Ford truck that had a Nissan body. That thing was like snap-together and the only thing I couldn't fix on it was what needed a hoist. I even sort of fixed the muffler, though just temporarily with a C-clamp lol - I had to take it in for that. The Nissan body, though - I had to replace a headlight and to do that, it required disassembly of almost the entire bumper assembly. Tons of little screws, pulling off the grill, etc. etc.*

Now I look under the hood and yeah, I can change the oil because it's a 1997, but I just have it done on maintenance.

I think I'd rather have the long-running car and take it in once in a while than something I have to fix all the time, though.

*Again, it reminded me of a Red Green episode.  

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Ford / Nissan truck? Did you actually mean a Ford Courier? Mazda made those. Or did you actually have a Datsun or Nissan body mounted on a Ford chassis?

Also, yes things can be a lot harder now. I only have one leg but I still try to do my own repairs. I just had to replace a coil and a spark plug on my Jeep Commander. Theoretically that is about a 12 minute job.

An hour later I finally get the coil off, most of it, the boot had adhered to the spark plug. On any older car I could have easily replaced all the plugs, wires, cap, rotor and ignition coil in the time it took me to get most of that coil off.

Then 3 more hours over the next 2 weeks were spent trying to extricate the broken boot and plug (watching every youtube video on it and buying the exact things they used). Total failure, finally I had to have a friend come over who was way better of a mechanic than I am and it still took him 2 hours to finish what should have been a 10-12 minute job.

[roccotacodad54]

   Actually the only thing that I truly admire on todays cars & trucks is the cooling systems. They (at least ours) never overheat.

   I don't remember how many miles were on my old '68 ford 3/4 ton Custom Cab but my linkage to the throttle broke once and I fixed it by running a piece of clothesline through the firewall up to the carbuerator. Got me home. Another time a piece of something flew up in traffic and cut my right front brake line. I pulled off the road, found a wood screw, cut the line and plugged it with the screw. Again, got me home.

   Flattened all four tires and broke the steering gear at night in the desert by turning left instead of right on a road I thought I knew. Got me home again. Barely but got me there.

   I set the timing by ear and used a matchbook cover to set the gap for the points.

   I only sold it because it never had seatbelts and people kept rear ending me (3 times at stop lights).

   My new truck had a problem with the fuel pump controller?...tow truck time. Warranty work.

   I like the new but also miss the old.............

[onefootflipper1]

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@roccotacodad54 wrote:

   Actually the only thing that I truly admire on todays cars & trucks is the cooling systems. They (at least ours) never overheat.

   I don't remember how many miles were on my old '68 ford 3/4 ton Custom Cab but my linkage to the throttle broke once and I fixed it by running a piece of clothesline through the firewall up to the carbuerator. Got me home. Another time a piece of something flew up in traffic and cut my right front brake line. I pulled off the road, found a wood screw, cut the line and plugged it with the screw. Again, got me home.

   Flattened all four tires and broke the steering gear at night in the desert by turning left instead of right on a road I thought I knew. Got me home again. Barely but got me there.

   I set the timing by ear and used a matchbook cover to set the gap for the points.

   I only sold it because it never had seatbelts and people kept rear ending me (3 times at stop lights).

   My new truck had a problem with the fuel pump controller?...tow truck time. Warranty work.

   I like the new but also miss the old.............

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What I like about newer cars is that my Jeep told me specifically that the problem was a cylinder 5 misfire. Had it been my 1986 truck with the carb and no real computer then it could have taken me quite a while to narrow that down.  Same thing, my toyota van told me it had a bad sensor, and exactly which one it was, and even with one leg I was able to crawl under there and replace it myself. And modern vehicles with fuel injection and electronic ignition tend to basically stay in tune and have way less of the classic "won't start" problems. What I hate about newer cars is that everything is near impossible to reach, there are mystery wires and vacuum hoses everywhere under the hood and they invariably have a half dozen different electronic black boxes that can go bad.

On old cars, I can get a tool on everything with relative ease.

Even my 1984 Mercedes with its mechanical fuel injection and several black boxes is actually pretty easy to work on even though most mechanics won't touch them. I think the fact that I have to look up how to do everything anyway sort of negates the trouble normal mechanics have about everything on them being different than other cars. And it always seemed like every bolt that seemed impossible to touch, deep in the engine compartment actually had a totally straight shot to it as long as you put a long enough extension on the socket.

What I also like about older cars is that if you are driving some hoopty nearing the end of its service life that it won't be continually flashing you with warnings and engine codes. Instead you can just drive the thing until it dies a gentle death.  One of my old 80s car (the Mercedes I think), had a check engine light that actually told the truth, as it was labeled O2 sensor instead of check engine, which I think was the only thing that could trigger that light on a lot of old cars.

Oh, and speaking of coolant, my 1984 Mercedes has had the same coolant in it for at least 20 years, because I know I never replaced the coolant in the sealed radiator system, for all I know the coolant is 41 years old. Still runs the right temperature all the time.

[adamcartwright]

@tarotfindsandmore 

Love the Bee.