Are you considering stocking up on anything?

[Dave Gray]

I bought a 2nd bidet -- kind of just because I wanted one, but also because I expect some supply issues coming up and I don't want to play the toilet paper game again.

I have seen recommendations of stocking up on low cost imports that you might find, thinking about tariffs upcoming.  I haven't done that, nor do I plan to, but I thought it was interesting.  On another forum, I saw people who were buying things with the intent of resale, like baby cribs and stuff like that.

[Spider-Dan]

Over the last six months, I have bought several items that I otherwise would have waited on; electronics, clothes, etc.

I briefly considered that this was the actual intent of the Trump tariff chaos, the idiot's version of a genius strategy: tell everyone that Prices Are Going Way Higher Very Soon So You'd Better Buy Now, and just keep pushing that date out.  But any economic gains that might result from impulse sales are more than offset by the tanking stocks and supply chain disruptions (due to companies being scared of uncertain market conditions).

But even "dumb man's idea of a smart man's plan" is giving Trump far too much credit; he doesn't think that far ahead.  He just likes forcing people to come personally beg him for tariff exceptions, like he's a mob boss.  That's it.