As my husband and I were wandering the mall on Sunday,enjoying each others company, we decided to look in Dillard's in the home sections o see what they had. They have some very nice things. Many of them were not to our taste, being into simplicity and clean lines(which is not in fashion lately).
While looking I remembered a peice one of the news conglomerates did called "Made n America" What I remembered, specifically was that the only thing they could not find, even partially made in the US, was a coffee maker. Now we were out a lot Sunday and Monday and while looking around we found that even the camping percolaters are not made in the us. They are made in China.
While in Dillard's we looked at various products, inevitably, as always, we get to he china(plates and such) section. We enjoy picking out the pattern we will one day have and seeing if it is still in their selection. These are the brands we looked and where they are made.

• Lenox-USA-includes stemware
• Kate Spade by Lenox- USA-possibly specifically new york
• Noritake-Indonesia
• Denby-unknown all had bar code stickers covering them
• Johnson Brothers-Thailand
• Vera Wang-China
• Ralph Lauen-Indonesia
• Mikasa-Thailand
• Wedgewood- England

Now many of these were beautifully designed, but we noticed that a lot of the ones that were made in other countries were not as good as those made in the US. In fact one looked like it had been painted by my 6 yr old niece. While I love her art work and hink it's great on my fridge, the "fine china" hopefully made by an adult looked horrible and I think it shouldn't be priced so high for something of that low quality.
All the products carried by Lenox, however, were magnificently done and were what we would expect to be paying a pretty decent amount of money for.

My husband had this to say about the whole experience " I'm just thinking, we've got this whole unemployment problem , but we're shipping hings in from over seas. Where apparently eveyone's working.

Personally we're going tofind as many products as we can that are made in our own country to furnish our home. I wish we could find more clothing made in the USA. If any of you readers know where I could find that please let me know.
Many of you may want to try looking at your packages when you buy your stuff from now on. you'd be surprised at what you can find out.

Oh yes! before I forget. In case any of you have forgotten your elementary level social studies class.

The definition of a third world country is: one that imports more than it exports.

We are there people. Now ask yourself what you can do about it.