Shop Local

[user 7704]

I'll start. There is an American company that makes the most comfortable flip flops, sandals, clogs and now boot. It is TELIC. I have 5 pairs and love them.

They run small so order a size larger. Also, they only take orders certain months and when they run out, you wait till next year.

 

[Amish Heart]

Glennsbulkfood.com
Glenn's bulk foods in Kansas, Amish run. They ship. Great product and great people.

 

[user 7704]

Glennsbulkfood.com
Glenn's bulk foods in Kansas, Amish run. They ship. Great product and great people.

Thanks

 

[Amish Heart]

Welcome! I love shopping there and getting a sauerkraut roast beef thousand island dressing sandwich while I'm there.

 

[Jayson]

Here’s their website. Lots of good stuff to satisfy your stomach and your soul...

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[Dracos]

I for one am willing to drive farther and pay more for items that are made in the USA. There is nothing made in China that we can't make better in the United States.

 

[lonewolf]

the only problem I have with Chinese made stuff is the time it takes to arrive, and of course Covid, I have now stopped buying anything foreign and only buy stuff sold by UK firms, since Brexit this also applies to European made items.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I prefer to buy local too. But in a town of 500 its a little limited. We have a grocery store, a feed store, a sawmill and a few others. This state also has a 6% sales tax. For feed, grain, tools and equipment its cheaper for me to drive to a non-tax state and buy it. Or use the internet. I recently ordered a USA made propane generator for the well pump.
American made products are available. You just have to look for them. They may cost a little more than the Chinese made junk, but with quality made products you usually only buy it once. Besides, I'd rather put our people to work than support slave labor in a communist country.

 

[Illini Warrior]

problem I have with your idea & strategy >>> alllllll kinds of little mom & pop manufacturers that can't market and ship piecemeal to individuals - they use Amazon/EBay for their marketing and are lucky enough to hook Wally World SKU space for their product ....

before you go off half cocked shooting yourself in the foot and bunch of people needing their jobs - take a look at what you're buying and not just the shelf it lands up on ....

 

[MOS0231]

We do our best to support a local small hardware store and avoid Lowes/Home Depot.

As for tools, I have been trying to buy USA made stuff, like this screwdriver set: 5575 Master Screwdriver Set (replaces #5503, #6810)| Chapman MFG

Other hand tools, if I cannot find a USA made manufacture, I try for Japanese or German. Do my best to buy non-China. Not always successful.

 

[GaRp58]

Like I said in another thread, we always buy local. The gas station is family owned, hardware store, housewares and veggie/fruits. Local hairdresser, firewood, building materials, wine and moonshine even are local made....there was a little beer bar earlier, he made 400 liters of beer in his own brewery weekly and an old gypsy came and played on a fiddle weekends, pool table was free and darts too. Good old times but he got old and the place just closed down...too bad

 

[user 7704]

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[Schattentarn]

The only local merchant I am really tied to is my local gun store. With all the pressure and regulations on them, if I want a gun store in my community I feel I have to support it with all my gun related business.

 

[Amish Heart]

We did a lot of local shopping today. Went to Stutzmans, a large plant nursery. Bought lots of flowers, more berries, different mints, other herbs, begonias, rhubarb, red cabbage, and horse radish. Then on to the Amish Bulk Store (Glenns). They did have canning lids...100 regular mouth for $35.00. Bought bulk local flour, rennet, candies, and empty bulk pails with lids ($1.50, used). One still smells like oregano, but I'll deal with it. Then on to our local Amish Restaurant for lunch. Had a hot roast beef open faced sandwich with mashed potatoes and brown gravy. Rainy day here, so I'm relaxing now with the cat on my lap. All the flowers went into the greenhouse for a few more weeks till it warms up a bit.

 

[Proud Prepper]

I purchased a lot from our local family owned feed store, rather than tractor supply

 

[Amish Heart]

I do the same, except for Game bird starter and base. They don't stock it.

 

[lonewolf]

I buy fresh food in our local corner store, less than 1 mile away.
eggs and vegetables from a road side stall again 1 mile away, different direction. can buy other stuff in our weekly town market.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I always try and buy local too. But when I can drive 100 miles to another state and buy feed, tools, parts and equipment cheaper and with no sales tax thats what I do. I guess I consider a 100 mile trip local. Even with my truck getting 10 mpg its still cheaper to make the drive.

 

[Acdoctor]

I try to buy all my companies gas from mom & pop stores in my town, county . All groceries are bought in the next town over, guns/ammo local as well. I have the mentality of help support the locals that support my company, keep the buck close to home. I will not give one nickel of my money to help support a leftist leaning company’s.

 

[lonewolf]

I always try and buy local too. But when I can drive 100 miles to another state and buy feed, tools, parts and equipment cheaper and with no sales tax thats what I do. I guess I consider a 100 mile trip local. Even with my truck getting 10 mpg its still cheaper to make the drive.

we have a saying here about people who will spend a shilling to save sixpence.

 

[Mountain trapper]

we have a saying here about people who will spend a shilling to save sixpence.

Not sure what a shilling or a sixpence is but I'm sure the meaning is the same as spend a dime to save a nickel. In my case I save enough just on the sales tax alone to pay for my fuel and buy lunch. In my town of 500 people many items are limited.

 

[rrodscott]

Lots of organic farmers in my area, and the food really does taste much better than the stuff from factory farms from which Walmart buys. It costs a little more and is only available in season, but it's still cheaper than I can grow it and tastes like food from back on the farm. Everything else I buy online to dodge my state's 10% sales tax, or drive fifty miles once a month to buy from out of state. I'm not giving government leeches one dollar out of every ten I spend. I also have friends and family that kill a steer or two twice a year and if you've never had fresh killed beef you're really missing something.

 

[GaRp58]

We just found a small private lake where you can fish if you have a license...but they also have chickens, ducks and geese there and you can buy the fresh eggs from all three for a third cheaper than anywhere else so far we have shopped. They also sell fish whole or even cleaned and ready to cook... I do not have my Hungarian fishing license yet but am working on it. Gotta take an online test in english and identify many sorts of fish, name them, define their spawing seasons and fishing seasons and explain many laws surrounding the fishing, fines and legalities of keeping protected and invasive types of fish here...WHEW, sure am glad it is in english....Gary

 

[lonewolf]

Not sure what a shilling or a sixpence is but I'm sure the meaning is the same as spend a dime to save a nickel. In my case I save enough just on the sales tax alone to pay for my fuel and buy lunch. In my town of 500 people many items are limited.

fuel is more expensive here.
day to day food I buy within 1 mile of home, meat is purchased direct from the farm and delivered to the door. cans and packaged stuff I buy once a month from a supermarket 20 miles away.
anything non food is bought online and delivered by local mail lady or by courier.
I havent travelled any further than 20 miles away for over a year because of the pandemic and the lock downs.

 

[Mountain trapper]

fuel is more expensive here.
day to day food I buy within 1 mile of home, meat is purchased direct from the farm and delivered to the door. cans and packaged stuff I buy once a month from a supermarket 20 miles away.
anything non food is bought online and delivered by local mail lady or by courier.
I havent travelled any further than 20 miles away for over a year because of the pandemic and the lock downs.

Our nearest grocery store is 20 from here. We do buy some things online, but we have to drive 20 miles to the library in town to use a computer. Most things we order come by UPS. If the driver sees my truck or Jeep parked in town he'll drop the package off inside the vehicle, I never lock the doors. Otherwise he'll leave the package at our lower gate. Nobody delivers to our door.
We raise our own beef, chicken, eggs and pork and butcher around October to December.
Now that the wife is retired she plans on canning a lot stuff from the garden, which will mean fewer trips to town.
Gas prices have gone up a lot here too. We do get a discount by buying fuel in bulk, plus they'll deliver too, when the road is passable. We don't have to pay the tax on diesel so that saves a lot when I'm buying 350 gallons at a time.
In my area the "pandemic " hasn't had any impact on our life, except I couldn't find Corona beer anywhere until a couple weeks ago.

 

[lonewolf]

I dont have a homestead, I guess we would call it a smallholding, I am currently looking for land to buy.
I live in an ordinary house on the edge of a small rural British town, we have a small corner shop and a small 4pump filling station but anything else means a trip out, the nearest supermarket is a 40 mile round trip and any clothes or shoe shop would be a 60 mile round trip minimum which is why we buy those things online, if it dosent fit its cheaper and easier to pay the return postage.
we grow a lot of our own food but no animals at present.

 

[Brent S]

We just found a small private lake where you can fish if you have a license...but they also have chickens, ducks and geese there and you can buy the fresh eggs from all three for a third cheaper than anywhere else so far we have shopped. They also sell fish whole or even cleaned and ready to cook... I do not have my Hungarian fishing license yet but am working on it. Gotta take an online test in english and identify many sorts of fish, name them, define their spawing seasons and fishing seasons and explain many laws surrounding the fishing, fines and legalities of keeping protected and invasive types of fish here...WHEW, sure am glad it is in english....Gary

Wow! I just paid 27.00$.... I’ll never complain again!
seriously I kind of like supporting our local DNR guys anyways

 

[Brent S]

I dont have a homestead, I guess we would call it a smallholding, I am currently looking for land to buy.
I live in an ordinary house on the edge of a small rural British town, we have a small corner shop and a small 4pump filling station but anything else means a trip out, the nearest supermarket is a 40 mile round trip and any clothes or shoe shop would be a 60 mile round trip minimum which is why we buy those things online, if it dosent fit its cheaper and easier to pay the return postage.
we grow a lot of our own food but no animals at present.

That all sounds pretty nice

 

[Amish Heart]

Our small time local merchants are having customer appreciation this Saturday and should be alot of fun. Raffles, free hamburgers and hotdogs, discounts, lots of tables set up for visiting. So we'll be going to the feed store, the thrift store, the Christian bookstore, and the Amish grocery store. (that's all we have in our town).

 

[Mountain trapper]

Wow! I just paid 27.00$.... I’ll never complain again!
seriously I kind of like supporting our local DNR guys anyways

Right after the first of the year we always buy our hunting/fishing combo licenses and paid $33 each. To some that may not sound too bad, but when you figure in the deer, elk, bear and turkey tags, duck stamps and salmon/steelhead tags its outrageously expensive. Even more so if you want to hunt moose, antelope and mountain lion. My trapping license is another $26.
I dont give a flick about the fish and game guys.