Why I’m A-OK with Buying Products from China (And You Should Be Too) I still remember the first time I ordered something from China. It was 2015, and I was a broke college student in Austin, Texas, trying to furnish my shoebox apartment on a budget that barely covered ramen and rent. A friend of mine—a self-proclaimed “online bargain hunter”—kept raving about this site called AliExpress. I was skeptical. I mean, China? The shipping times alone sounded like a joke. But when a package of bamboo cutting boards and LED strip lights arrived three weeks later, I was hooked. Not because everything was perfect (spoiler: it wasn’t), but because the…