[lbo-talk] Save the Doodle!

[tully]

Should have added "lumber store" after the word "indie" in my 
first paragraph below, which could otherwise be misinterpreted.  
Lumber from indie hardware stores is indeed rarely a good 
source, as you say, but indie lumber stores are the best source 
I've found.  Many here in NC are warehouses many times larger in 
area than the big box section that holds lumber and there is 
usually a far better selection to be had.  I hope you have indie 
lumber stores there half as good as the ones here in NC. You'd 
still do better than the wood at the big box stores.  

--tully

On Tuesday 05 February 2008, tully wrote:
>On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Chuck wrote:
>>I really ought to patronize indie hardware stores more, but
>> they aren't exactly the best places to get lumber.
>
>You might want to recheck as the indies that have survived the
>big box stores so far are offering serious competition in
> prices and especially quality.  Not long ago I bought a stack
> of perfectly planed straight-grain knot-free flawless pine
> 1x2s for just a little higher price than the knotty twisted
> curved gouged crap they had at the big boxes, which meant I
> got a far better deal from that indie.
>
>The indies are well worth re-discovering, but people generally
>won't take the time to do it, since the big boxes are *so*
>convenient.  Yet I believe the most powerful votes we can make
>are with our wallets.  Those votes are the only reason the
>organic food market took off like it has.  People were willing
>to pay a little more for healthier more environmentally sound
>food and the market responded.  Now the organic food prices are
>coming down and the supply is going up and even large chain
>supermarkets are introducing it on their shelves.  People are
>paying $15 or more extra a month on their electricity bills to
>support alternative energy sources.  A poll sometime back said
>that over 50% of the people would be willing to pay higher fuel
>taxes if they could be assured that the extra money would
>support alternative energy development.  This kind of voting is
>activism that can actually accomplish something when enough
>people do it.
>
>--tully