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I’m mostly looking at whether I would have made any medium sized purchases in the next two yearsl. I might buy some little things in bulk, too, but if there’s any one time purchase where the price is going to jump $200, $300, $500, it’s time to make a decision.

For me that mostly means furniture. I already bought a pair of commodity IKEA bookshelves I’d been considering buying vs building. I might still build replacements, but I would still use what I just bought and domestic lumber won’t be directly subject to a tariff. I’m looking at buying a papasan chair and a mattress as well, probably in the next week or two.

I’ve also considered electronics, but there’s nothing I would buy in the next two years short of some PC components that I’m sure I’ll want. I bought a Quest 3 a while back and it’s been a great purchase.

I did go back through some of my online buying this year to see what I used. I’ll probably buy a few pairs of work shoes and some good soap.

I don't believe in such consumption unless it is warrant by some sort of real need.

ie, if you use the product over years and you know you will need it going forward, sure stock pile. but maintaining a stock pile has its own cost.

Also, using what you got until is fail is a valid strategy too for durable goods, most people don't do this. We as society literally throwing money away.

I think one things anyone who has excess should be doing is buying US treasury bills or money markets, it seems people some people are still keeping their cash at boomer banks who won't give you good rate unless you shop around etc.

While threat of tariffs is real, I doubt federal government will start fucking peasants outright in already inflationary environment.

US is food and energy sufficient. Them targeting china made plastic trash sold on Temu and Shein is or a domestic retailers really too, should be fucked tariffed the fuck out. You don't need this plastic slop, sorry, not sorry.

Plus US can make all of these products home anyway, since some of these products do have strategic role within society. No joke, when Biden did his state aid package shit like trash bag manufacturing was covered. So US provided free money to corpo parasites to build or expand factories for this. While I don't support state aid usage, at least this state aid result in more national security and pandemic resilience along with jobs for some peasants in more rural areas.