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Get Your American Made Eclipse Glasses Today!

American Made Eclipse Glasses

We are having an amazing time finding the best products, like American Made Eclipse Glasses that are still manufactured right here in the USA. American ingenuity at its finest. We continue to believe that the American dream is still possible and WE can help many rediscover it by buying products made in the USA. We’re out and about this week giving away free eclipse glasses to our friends in the area. We have bought our giveaway American Made Eclipse Glasses from the same company that makes these Soluna Solar Eclipse Glasses – AAS Approved 2024

You may have even arrived here by checking out that QR code on the cover. If so, you are awesome, and thank you for being willing to check us out. We are working very hard to expand the number products listed on our site. If you find a better price on something we stock, let us know and we’ll see if we can match or beat it. If there is a great American made product you think we are missing, send it over and we’ll review it. We’re known to send you a gift when you share something we have not found.

Time flies! It seems like this year is running on warp 8. Our family is growing, our site is growing, and we are just running at full speed to keep up. It will be fun to take it a bit slow and enjoy quite the show. We’re lucky enough, again, to be right in the path of the peak experience. We wont see a total eclipse here for several years. It’s too bad most kids and adults are likely in school or at work. We are about to load 1,000 American Made products to the site this week… It will be the biggest drop we’ve been able to complete.

By the way, if you love that image as we do, isn’t it a crazy time to be alive? It was generated by Dall-E. AI is both scary as heck, but totally amazing at the same time!

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Family Time is the Best Time

This week, we are in South Texas, spending time with our kids. Well, at least, the two who are still at home. Their school district has the week off for fall break. They started school mid-August this year, which earns an extra week that happily aligns with things like hunting season.

We’re visiting Sea World San Antonio, and this Saturday, we are lucky enough to be dead center of the annular eclipse. We didn’t plan it, but it brought with it an opportunity to show you exactly why we started this business.

Many of you visiting us for the first time may have ended up here after you were handed a packet of free, Certified American Original, solar eclipse glasses. These solar glasses are made in America at a factory in Tennessee. You’ll find them on Amazon alongside a lot of cheaper priced products, made mainly in China, and then shipped into the US. Many of those competitively priced products are fakes that don’t meet the safety standards regarding safe solar viewing.

Know that the person who handed them to you represents 1/4 of our current employee base. Whether that was our founder (me), our CSO (Cheif Support Officer) who tirelessly listens to my ideas and watches me agonize over every purchase I make; our lead art designer, or our future lead programmer. We have a lot more work to make this place into what we strive to be. Let us know if there are any great products you think we need to share with the world.

Thank you for taking the time to check out the site. And, we hope you enjoyed safely viewing this rare event and the rest of your day at Sea World.

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Wanted! Leads on American Athletic Shoes

We have been trying to find a company that still makes athletic shoes in the US. If you are aware of such a company, please let us know by completing our contact us form. Anyone who sends us a valid lead on this subject will get their choice of Brooks Running American Made socks that we carry here on the site.

Send us a lead here!

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On the importance of mystery shopping

When I decided that I wanted to create this website, it was out of pure frustration. There are many companies out there making great products that are not made here in the US. But, what was frustrating is how many businesses seem to want to keep their manufacturing details hidden from the public. They will use terms that indicate they are US made, like “Designed in the US” or my favorite “Engineered in the US.” It is why mystery shopping has become a bit of an obsession for me.

I began a project vehicle, a ’22 Jeep® Gladiator® that will carry the site’s name and show off some of the great Certified American Original™ products I have found specifically made for my Jeep. I set out to only upgrade it using products that would meet the high standards we have set for that “original” tag. The vehicle is classified as a US made product, with 65% of the components coming from the US or Canada (I don’t know why the sticker on a new car gives a nod to Canada in that calculation. I suspect NAFTA has something to do with it.) but it would only meet Made in America classification on this site. Jeep, while an American born brand, is no longer an American owned company, and portions of the profits are going to head offshore.

I recently spent weeks working on a single item for the build, WHEELS. The market for wheels is crowded. The most popular brands are primarily built in China and shipped in to the US. But after and exhaustive search, I selected Weld Off-Road who offered a product indicated as US made, meeting the technical criteria required for the build, and a potential future Certified American Original candidate.

My order arrived this week, and the result was instant heartache and regret. As you can see from the label on the package below, and despite the claim made on their own website, these wheels were not made here. I am working to find out which products are actually made here. Their FAQ indicates that “WELD Racing wheels are made in Kansas City, Missouri.” That may be the key though. Is it the Racing line only that is made here? I have found this with other brands, like Fuel wheels. They openly share that Off-road wheels are not made in US, the performance (racing) line is.

So I return to the work of sourcing a new set of wheels that meet the high standards of this customer, and the requirements of my build.

Note: There are several other brands that sell US made wheels in a beadlock configuration. I just don’t need a beadlock right now, and the entry cost for these are around $1,000 per wheel. Additionally, in many cases even these wheels are cut from a blank that originated in China. It seems I may not have a choice.