This seems pretty important to crowdsource and talk about, so I’m gonna go ahead and risk violating the no politics rule from a few days ago, because I don’t see a better community to ask this. My defense for it not “being politics” is, I’m asking you to keep it to purchasing decisions and how the details of how the tariffs are likely to work, as opposed to who did what. This thread has the potential to save people lots of money if it gets big!
Tariffs are gonna make things more expensive for Americans; what are you planning on buying now instead of later, or stockpiling a little of?
Food, but not primarily for cost savings as most regular used things things don’t last longer than a year, which cost wise won’t bridge the gap.
55 lbs of 00 flour in the chest freezer, still have about 25lbs of AP flour in there. 1 30lb bag of Jasmine Rice, 1 25 lb basmati. I still have a ton of beans and and dry pasts in mylar/oxy absorb sitting in barens cans for long term storage. When covid started, I had 1 million calories in storage. I don’t plan to go back to that, but I intend to be able to hunker down for a long time.
For work, I’m pushing to purchase more laptops before tariffs.
I’ve considered stowing fuel with a stabilizer but even if prices double on fuel, I don’t use enough of it to make a difference.
It would be a good time to buy any lithium ion batteries and finish off those ali-express/temu orders.
55 lbs of 00 flour in the chest freezer, still have about 25lbs of AP flour in there
Mmhmm, 12ga and xm855 “flour,” got it.
One doesn’t need to panic buy items that they keep in stock at sufficient levels. :)
Wow that will last you 13 months at most what a waste of energy.
US produces sufficient amount of food to be self sufficient, ie fast majority of foods is made within US for US consumption… i doubt any base food will be affected anyway, that’s not what tariff policy is about here.
While US is self sufficient in fuel, US pays global market rate. But again, we are not getting hit with tariffs here either.
As I said, not for cost saving, but more for not needing to go out when people start panicking, or being stupid
A large percentage of US manufacturing is food processing. Manufacturing has been struggling to fill open roles for years,1 and as a low-skilled job with tons of openings lots of migrants, both citizens and not work in manufacturing since the pay & benefits are hard to beat for not requiring any degrees. Its a similar situation with farm work. If the Trump administration actually performs significant deportations and cancellations of visas like he promised, food availability will be affected as farms and food producers struggle to keep up with demand
1 Here’s the JOLTS data showing as much as 200k unfilled manufacturing jobs. I can’t easily directly link my query, but here’s a screenshot of the data with enough info to replicate my query
Again… owners need cheap labour US in migration policy aint changing no matter what trump said… we already had him and nothing changed.
Manufacturing jobs actually pay pretty well. Like I said, it’s hard to beat the pay and benefits of working in manufacturing if you don’t have a degree.
The reason they struggle to fill these roles is because most people don’t want to work in industrial facilities working physically taxing jobs, often at odd hours filling second or third shifts and risking that the facility doesn’t sufficiently value safety leading to a serious injury or death
Noting like a job where your shitty boss’ cost cutting gets you killed by heavy equipment! Wonder why they can’t find anyone?
Yeah, but that just means that the cost of processing food is going to skyrocket. Whole chicken costs will go down while chicken wing costs will go up.
I can also see states leaning on their prison populations to supply some forced labor.
I’m holding off and waiting for tariffs in the US to make prices lower where I live by reducing demand.
I dont understand, how will prices raising lower the demand until it was cheaper than before prices rose?Ohhh you don’t live in this dumpster fire, lucky
Zactly. And if retaliatory tariffs come in to increase prices of American products, our exports should become more valuable and increase foreign reserves to strengthen our currency and improve our buying power on imports.
I assume that fat cunt will add tariffs on our stuff as well, so we’ll work on disentangling ourselves from US dependency, and open markets elsewhere, which is good. That’ll raise more prices for you and inflation should become rampant in the US, and weaken the USD.
Hate to see what’s happening down there, but in the short term, it’s probably good for us as the US steps on its dick for a few years.
Trust me, the US economy unraveling will be felt by everyone, do you think a country this big, and so militaristic is not going to make our economy everyone elses problem. Half of the reason I’ve cited for not wanting children is that I’m not trying to raise a kid to watch them die in the next global catastrophe we are racing full speed towards…
It’s infuriating how ignorant the majority of our country is to the state of affairs…
But hey, at least our 401k’s grew a bunch before the dollar became worthless…
Unfortunately plane tickets out of the country are already up.
Jk, mostly.
You’ll pay a premium for a flight on a Boeing plane, ironic
Le Creuset.
Cast iron is imported from France.
Ceramics are imported from China.https://www.lecreuset.com/signature-oval-baker/20188US.html
https://www.lecreuset.com/classic-3-piece-oval-baking-dish-set-/ST00979.html
Le Creuset casserole pots are awesome.
I’m biased, I inherited one from my grandmother, it’s 70 years old and looks brand new.
Then I found an outlet store near me.
I have one of those stores about 20min away by car. Excluding parking
A portable SSD. I need a new external hard drive anyway, so adding that November sales have reduced prices currently and that announced tariffs are designed to raise them very soon, there really is no better logical time for me to get one other than now.
My personal desktop machine is a Linux box I assembled from $500 worth of parts about 14 years ago. I’ve increased RAM and added about 8TB of storage for an Emby instance.
It still manages to get the job done, but it is obviously way, way, WAY overdue for replacement. We’ve been struggling financially for about 25 years.
Now I’m thinking I need to finally pull the trigger and get it done before January.
IMO there’s little need to buy new in the computer world unless you want to do something silly like have a snapdragon x laptop or have the disposable funds to go the gaming rig route.
My desktop is a retired business workstation, a HP Z420. I bought it for $250, installed a smaller SSD ($100 new) for the OS + apps, upgeaded to the “best” Xenon that fit the socket ($150 used), upgraded to 64 GB RAM ($107 used, yay ECC memory being dirt cheap on the used market), and a 1070TI ($225 used, purchased just before covid).
It’s more than fast enough for my needs still.
This was all about 4-5 years ago, so you could probably do even better with more modern hardware.
Yep. Two weeks ago I was thinking I’d wait through at least one more gen of CPUs and GPUs before upgrading–I’ve got a 6700XT which works great, but everything else is basically 2012-era tech. Now I’m getting ready to pull the trigger on replacing basically everything but the GPU as soon as tomorrow. If the country is going to implode I may as well have some extra pretty distractions.
Absolutely. Not because of Trump directly but because of Taiwan. China now has a card blanche basically.
Carte blanche, i.e. blank check. Just sharing in case that wasn’t a typo
Yeah, it was… autocorrect
Sorry to bother, autocorrect is dire these days isn’t it?
The easy way to save is to buy used. You can usually buy a super high spec one for 500 to 800 USD used. I think I spent 600 for mine with a 3070 (from hardwareswap, about 1k or so in parts)
I’ve definitely moved plans to build a storage NAS and some smaller custom home automation electronic devices up to start before December.
Yep. Me too. Looking to reconfigure my home storage setup
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’ve got a big pile of lumber I had milled that is almost finished drying. I’m buying up the remaining woodworking tools I need to process it into various items. The American made options are out of my price range.
Tools are a good idea. Probably should follow your lead on that…
Canadian here. I expect the supply of products that would otherwise have gone to the US to go up and the price here to go down. I’ll just wait for the US tariff discounts to hit.
Computers
I’m in the process of buying land to homestead on. Solar, rain water, green house, etc. my goal is to be as self sufficient as I can be.
godspeed
5700x3d and a to be determined gpu
Tariffs on semi conductors? Any evidence to support this?
How do you think tariffs work?
do we have a list of categorizes subject to tariffs?
i have doubts big tech will let trump to impose tariffs tariffs unless they are stopping to building data center infrastructure which i don’t think is accurate or tariffs will only be imposed on consumer grade equipment?
How do you think thinking works?
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I have very little to do with the US and said tariffs, so I’m not affected directly.
In general though I try to be rational with big(ger) purchases - I research things for at least a week or two before buying (but more often it’s months) and try to maximise my use of what I buy.
I predicted this. I said if we ever tried to block politics it would devolve into nitpicking what is and isn’t political.
But to answer the question: If your computer shit is about due for a upgrade, don’t wait.
Grocery prices would probably keep going up no matter who got elected, so gardening supplies would be a good investment over time. Along with gardening comes the peripheral skills of cooking and preserving when it’ll hurt your soul to see any of your sweet baby tomatoes go to waste.
