Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act could make our lives worse

In our quest to save money, many of us with children shop ebay, yard sales, children's consignment, etc. However, there's a law that was passed called The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act could stop all that. According to The Los Angeles Times, as of February 10th all items for children will have to be tested to be lead free before the can be sold. This could possibly mean it will be illegal for consignment shops, thrift store, yard sales, even ebay sellers to sell children's items since they wouldn't have been tested for Lead making them hazardous. The law was written to protect children from products made with lead products. While it was a well intended law, it could potentially hurt a ton of businesses as well as hit our own pocket books. Several people are trying to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to amend the law so that it doesn't hurt the resale industries.

Let's all hope that this gets amended before we loose one of the best ways we've found to cloth our children and even recycle our children's outgrown toys and clothes. This could really rock a lot of our worlds.