Drop everything and grab your wallet! It’s tax-free shopping weekend in Texas

by PegNews wire

"Here's to tax-free lunchboxes!"

Starting today and extending right on through the weekend, purchasers of most clothing, footwear, and school supplies at Texas retail outlets will get a break from paying sales tax on those (and other qualifying) items.

Complete details are here.

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Yeah! 8.25% saving here I come!

Jesus Valadez Verified

3 months ago
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Jesus..that's on top of your shoplifting!

Travis Bush Verified

3 months ago
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I did have to pay $0.02 on my damn post it notes today. What? Post it notes aren't school supplies? Damn old people.

Jesus Valadez Verified

3 months ago
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Crazy. I was at the mall for about two minutes today to drop off my daughter for work and it was a mob scene. Maybe I'm strange, but who deals with the parking gridlock and lines at the register for an 8% discount? I'm as libertarian as the next guy, but good grief! I'd rather pay taxes than deal with that mess.

momzilla Anonymous

3 months ago
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That's why I went to Staples midday after my first class today. A few people but no lines. Got my Uniball pens and post-its. I filled up on paper when it was a penny so I'm all good.

Now clothes... eh don't care.

Jesus Valadez Verified

3 months ago
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You had class today? Stinks to be you, unless it was something fun like lab band. Got the bad news re my daughter's books this semester. What a freaking racket! And $150 a month for a half hour of private tutoring every week on her instrument (piano). Sure hope this guy is as awesome as we're being told he is because she isn't even getting stinking credit for it; not officially accepted into the music department as a major.

momzilla Anonymous

3 months ago
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Classes at UTD started on Thursday but I don't have classes on Thursday. I had my first ever Friday classes today. :

And I only spent $100 on my textbooks this year. Most of my money went towards my Gender Roles class which is said since all of my other classes are engineering classes... I managed to find an ebook for "free" :p

Jesus Valadez Verified

3 months ago
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The textbook thing reminded me...

WHY AREN'T TEXTBOOKS TAX FREE?!

Jesus Valadez Verified

3 months ago
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Ya buy and ya sell we consume so much do we know what has ben consumed,in the old days folks made up and made their own things,while today,buy buy buy.....oh well, do you have a pen I can borrow....A/T, Going to school for kids is ruff with out a paycheck....

alexander troup Verified

3 months ago
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I'm with Momzilla. I'd rather get my eyelids stuck together with crazy glue than do that again.

A sucker for punishment, I went with the three kids to Target and the mall today - to get school supplies and some necessities for school - and it left me like Goldie Hawn's character in Overboard - you know - "buh buh buh buh buh buh buh..." needing a dunk in a nice cold wash barrel (or beer barrel - whatever...).

Really - these people have no idea the road-rules of store aisles. They will run right over you - with a shopping basket, their grandmother, their car....

I love the tax break, but it's just not worth the crowd to me anymore. Luckily the lines today in DFW area weren't too bad at Target - but the mall was a MESS. MESS, I SAY!