Does this help? http://www.b4usa.com/tag/toaster/ http://www.b4usa.com/tag/toaster/ I've bought quite a few things made in the USA (or other countries with dec

Does this help? http://www.b4usa.com/tag/toaster/ http://www.b4usa.com/tag/toaster/ I've bought quite a few things made in the USA (or other countries with decent worker and environmental protections, like Italy, Germany, Japan...) that other people seem to usually get from China. Anecdotally, I've noticed that people who will talk about how Grandma's toaster or washing machine lasted forever and it's a shame you can't buy something like that today are not willing to budget for it like Grandma did. Grandma spent a lot of money on her appliances in 1950, whether you want to adjust by consumer price index or just look at (e.g.) the ratio of minimum wage to sticker price. Are you willing to spend thousands of dollars on a washing machine, to match relative buying power and prices from the middle of the 20th century? If so, you can still find appliances that are built like a tank, built by workers paid decent wages, built in factories that don't just dump all their trash into the nearest river. But if you want to buy a toaster that lasts a long time, is made in the USA, and costs only a little bit more than the Chinese toaster, yeah, I agree that is hard to find. There is good stuff still available at the high end. The low end has gone a lot lower.