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This really ticks me off! When we had our first child I was a full time student and my husband had just started on his job making (woo-hoo) $200 per week. If it weren't for flea markets, garage sales and resale shops I'm not sure what I would have done.
Again, when the boys started school and uniforms were required, we had "swap and shop" before school where we could pick up outgrown, barely used uniforms and trade ours back for credit all at a fraction of the cost of those high priced specialty uniform stores.
The burden this will put on low income families trying to clothe and shop for several young children without re-sale, thrift and garage sales is a shame!
New law affecting the sale of children's Products
 
When buying anything from a second hand store just have them make up a form you sign stating it is for adult use only.Get creative.I doubt any spot checks will ever take place.They cant even enforce the borders anymore,so do you really think this will be policed.As for kids clothes,you could tell them theyre for a charity you donate to for elderly retired circus midgets.Let them prove otherwise.Remember-The road to H-E-Double Hockeysticks{no cussing in the pub] is paved with good intentions.Very stupid,unenforceable,moronic intentions too.Calm down and prove your smarter than they are.
 
Hi John,
I don't think that would work. That article (is it just a BLOG?)
stated that un-test toys and clothes would be deemed hazardous and destroyed. So anything in a store would have already passed. I don't condone how anything could seized and destroyed without proper proof.
 
gregw, well after all its a "safety improvement act" why havnt they had inspections/testing from manufacturers before production and sale? dah!!
 
Geez.

I played in DIRT as a kid. Learned to solder by age 10, played with mercury by rubbing my fingers in it to "shiny up" coins... asbestos? Throughout the grade school we attended. Lead paint? What else WAS there? I tasted "paste" once, didn't much like that. Got to ride in the back of C-123 spray birds with th' paraquat, exposed to photo chemistries from age 12, automotive paints and suchlike from 16 or so... sooo many other things. So far, 58 years and still upright. Tho I s'pose my body could qualify as a Superfund Site now.

A classmate and I tested as the highest IQ's in the county... she beat me by one point, IIRC. We both declined Mensa membership.

Somehow this "protect us from ourselves" attitude has gone beyond all rational behavior.

...oh, and nevermind th' "tic". They say it's hereditary... :devilgrin: :smirk:
 
geez, doc, wit all dat exposure you should be able ta fill in fur ozzy asbourne! i ustah chew on em lead silver xmass tree iceicle thingys, im a bit nuts but still got all me hair. :crazyeyes:
 
DrEntropy said:
I played in DIRT as a kid. Learned to solder by age 10, played with mercury by rubbing my fingers in it to "shiny up" coins... asbestos? Throughout the grade school we attended. Lead paint? What else WAS there? I tasted "paste" once, didn't much like that. Got to ride in the back of C-123 spray birds with th' paraquat, exposed to photo chemistries from age 12, automotive paints and suchlike from 16 or so... sooo many other things. So far, 58 years and still upright. Tho I s'pose my body could qualify as a Superfund Site now.
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So there IS an explanation for all this craziness.... :devilgrin: :jester: :jester:

How did any of us ever survive?

Maybe that's why my kid is a deviant mutant? (just kidding, Kiddo!)
 
James said:
So there IS an explanation for all this craziness.... :devilgrin: :jester: :jester:
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I expected that.

...just not from YOU, James. :smirk:
 
Doc;

Would that explain the t-shirt my girls bought me?
It says "I used to be schizophrenic, but we're OK now!"

One half of me likes LBC's.
The other half likes beer.

See, life is good

Dave :cheers:
 
DrEntropy said:
...oh, and nevermind th' "tic". They say it's hereditary... :devilgrin: :smirk:
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Hereditary.... so if my parents did not have kids then I would not have kids.... I get it :lol:
 
Hehehe, Like Doc., It all began at a very early age, chewing on the heads of little lead soldiers that were painted with lead paint!! It's been all up-hill from there!!! :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
Geez.

I tasted "paste" once, didn't much like that.
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I always thought those little "spoons" that came in the paste was for eating it with.....

Maybe that explains so much...
 
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