Update: No Made-In-China Resolution

Well, our New Years' Resolution is definitely impacting our shopping, but actually not as much as I thought it would. We had a few purchases in which our hand was somewhat forced to choose China:

• We successfully found a BluRay DVD player that was not made in China --- thank you Sony for providing us with this option. However, we could not find any cables for the BluRay player that were not made in China. Lapse.
  
• We are committed to not buying leather products with the exception of Grace's shoes (it is seemingly impossible to find orthopedically-friendly toddlers' shoes that are not leather). Well, Jeff needed new work shoes and the vegan shoes that we found were made in China. We chose made in China over leather. Seemed like the lesser of bad choices.

Other than that, those were our only "forced" China purchases this month. Another interesting discovery that I still don't quite understand is that at a single store, you can find the same shoes --- exact same color, size, style, brand --- made two different places. For example, I needed some new Converse All-Stars. The ones I have that are worn out are made in China. But I decided to look to see if perhaps they had changed their location of manufacturing. I was happily surprised to see Made in Vietnam on the first pair I picked up. I went ahead and chose some out in my size. Those were made in China. Hmm. I picked up a second pair in my size and they were made in Vietnam. I do not know if the skew number was different for the two, so is my buying the made in Vietnam ones really registering with the store that I chose made in China? I decided that issue just needed an email to Converse to explain my preference. I was very happy to discover I could buy my shoes though.

Not too shabby of a month though. We'll see what we find in February.