<p><img alt="P2978921reg" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d8341db04e53ef01310fa399c1970c" src="http://www.everydaytreats.com/wp-content/uploads/6a00d8341db04e53ef01310fa399c1970c-pi.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" title="P2978921reg" />Do you want to know how I spent my morning?&#0160; Do you?</p>

<p>A good 20 minutes was spent deciphering Mattel&#39;s Fisher-Price recall email.&#0160; Then I had to print out a postage-paid label, fill out paperwork and walk to the post office to return an innocent-looking Diego action figure.</p>

<p>I then went on GoodyBlog and read <a href="http://www.goodyblog.com/playing_house/2007/08/update-mattel-r.html">this</a>.</p>

<p>Seriously? Are you kidding?</p>

<p>This is ridiculous and I&#39;m beyond pissed.</p>

<p>That&#39;s it.&#0160; It&#39;s going to be a China-Free Christmas.&#0160; </p>

<p>A brand is built on trust, and if toy makers are going to continue to put their brands in the hands of criminally incompetent factories simply because they&#39;re the lowest bidder then they&#39;ve lost my trust.&#0160; </p>

<p><strong>No trust = No money</strong></p>

<p>Chinese toy manufacturers?&#0160; You can suck it.</p>

<p><em>(And Fisher-Price?&#0160; <a href="http://www.service.mattel.com/us/recall/39054_IVR.asp?prod=">The Go Diego Go Deep Sea Rescue set (code J0344)</a> that you insist is sold in Canada only?&#0160; Newsflash - it&#39;s also sold in America.&#0160; I know for a fact that the set we received as a gift was purchased at a Target in Miami - which is pretty far from Canada last time I checked.)</em></p>

<p>I know that it&#39;s pretty much impossible to not buy toys made in China.&#0160; But it&#39;s the only way I know to make a difference.</p>

<p>So what if it&#39;s hard to find American and European toys?&#0160; That only means that I don&#39;t have go spend money in <a href="http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=2255956">Hell&#39;s Armpit</a> this year.&#0160; It may be harder to find non-Chinese made toys, but that&#39;s why God invented the internet - it took me 2 seconds to find <a href="http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/toysngames.html">a site that lists American made toys</a>.&#0160; Thank you Google!</p>

<p>Non-Chinese toys too expensive?&#0160; Great!&#0160; We&#39;ll buy less toys - but better made ones.&#0160; That way there will be less plastic crap all over the house.&#0160; </p>

<p>I don&#39;t want to buy toys made in China anymore, and you know what?&#0160; I don&#39;t have to.&#0160; Neither do you.</p>

<p>Remember milk from cows treated with rBST?&#0160; It&#39;s <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8QQFK680.htm">getting harder and harder</a> to find, because enough people decided they didn&#39;t want to buy it anymore.&#0160; I can only hope that someday the same will happen with toxic toys.</p>
