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I bought this cute guy at RiteAid for $5, and hung him at the back door to scare off spooks. It almost feels like Halloween is over, all the decorations are on clearance sale to make room for the onslaught of Christmas.  The world should collapse under the sheer weight of so much STUFF.  And I've bought my share of it over a lifetime.

Yiwu, China, is Santa's real workshop, home to 600 factories that collectively churn out over 60% of all the world’s Christmas decorations. The “elves” are mainly migrant laborers, working 12 hours a day for about $100 a week. At least they get paid-- there are horror stories about help letters tucked into Halloween decorations from Chinese Labor Camps.

Places like Walmart import billions of dollars of cheap goods, and the prices of all of these items are supposedly going to skyrocket under this trade war with China. Who knows?