Going 'tool' shopping with my husband is always an interesting event. He can quite literally get lost in his own world. One I have no hope of understanding.
Tonight we went to Harbor Freight Tools. If you don't already know about this place, it is a hub for cheep tools and accessories. You can get everything from garden tools to bench top shapers to batteries. The nice part about this store is that you can find some of the disposable stuff that you need without having to pay insane amounts of money to get it when you'll use it once and then it goes in the trash.
When we got home from our excursion my husband noticed a label on a measuring cup that we bought saying that it was not safe for use in food preparation. We looked farther and found that a few of the copper fittings we bought have lead in them. Of course most of the items in this store are made overseas. Actually, we only noticed one that was 'Made In The USA' product as we walked the store.
Although we hopefully don't have to worry about kids putting copper fittings in their mouths. Well at least I hope not. But it is something to keep in mind when buying from stores like this. Most of us don't think anything about everything we touch before we put something in our mouths. Kids toys are not the only things we need to pay attention to when it comes to lead from imported items we have on our store shelves.
