The office supply store use to be one of my favorite places to shop. Chalked full of papers for everything and containers that could make all your organizing dreams possible. Ok, so I am an office nerd. I was the kid who took my mom's checkbook so I could play secretary and fill it out. Just thoughts of pens, pencil and marker boards made me swoon. However now each trip I take to the office supply store is met with feeling of anxiety and discouragement. It's a store that is hard to avoid, what business doesn't need a container to hold receipts and a folder to separate important papers? But the screams of foreign made products in a store like Office Max can deafen the ear. My trip to my local Office Max yesterday yielded only 4 out of 9 goods made in the USA. That was with me being a very conscious buyer, checking all labels to try to find a brand that said USA and avoiding normal impulse buys of products that had no USA alternative. Even the brands that I did end up finding the USA label on had other products of foreign origin/assembly. Unfortunately there are an array of office needs that are hard to find outside the big box stores, but buying foreign made products from a local family owned business would be one step in the right direction. Also, although some of the recycled goods are produces outside of our country, it completes the earth friendly circle by purchasing recycled products. Checking labels can be very daunting in every aspect of life. The disappointments never seem to cease when I find an item that I want and can afford and turn it over to find "made in china".
Office Max brand pink erasers, mini stapler, mechanical pencil = made in china
3 Oxford Esseite folders = made in usa
Avery address labels = made in usa
Avery business card pages = made in china
Pendaflex alphabetical file = made in mexico
4 = china
1 = mexico
4 = usa
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