First! My laundry detergent........Purex.........MADE IN U.S.A.!! Stain treatment stuff........Zout.......MADE IN U.S.A. Bounce dryer sheets..........made in Canada. Oh well, two out of three ain't bad and I love the Purex and Zout and I'm confident I can find a dryer sheet I like as well as Bounce or maybe their dryer bar is made in the U.S. We shall see.

I'm tired of "distributed by". It's on a lot of things with no mention of where the product is made. Today our oldest bought a tin of Altoids and, once again, I forgot to look at it to see where they are made until AFTER we bought it. Ugh. All it said was it was distributed by a company in Chicago.

In a search of the Internet to try to find out exactly what it means when something says "distributed by" I stumbled upon another blogger who went to great lengths (phone call, email) to find out where Target made their foodstuffs that only listed on them "distributed by" and he was told that Target cannot list where products are made on a lot of things because they don't know. OH FABULOUS.

Further searching led me to this very interesting article however this particular article doesn't talk about the whole problem I find with "distributed by". It's a good article though.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35821593/ns/business-us_business/t/made-america-rules-are-complex-confusing/#.Tt6Kn8NFuso