We went shopping this weekend, before we even realized it was tax-free weekend, which is OK, because it wasn't until Sunday morning I even remembered it was Tisha B'Av. We're bad Jews. But good shoppers.
We spent about $500 at Target (I love Target) and about $6000 at an upscale-ish furniture store. The $500 bought a couple of portable DVD players for the kids to use in the car (spare me the warning about their becoming missiles in a collision - better to die from that than from my brain imploding from the noise of their fights on car trips), several dozen rolls of paper goods for all parts of the body, and a bunch of the miscellaneous household crap we go through at an alarming pace. I felt it was a good value. The $6000 bought a table, pretty much. Also a good value for a dining table with a built-in center leaf.
Did we achieve tax savings? I think so. The furniture store did not charge tax, but I'm not sure that was the right move. Wasn't there some upper limit on the price of individual items for exemption? Oh well, that's their problem. So I guess we saved about $325, give or take.
A tax free weekend? In Tax-a-chusetts? How do the ruling Democratic elites stand for that? Think of all of the homeless that could be helped with that money! And the school lunches!
BARBARIANS!
Posted by: theautoprophet | August 15, 2005 at 09:39 AM
The Taxachusetts label is so outdated it's not even funny. Leave the tired cliches at home.
Posted by: sr20de | August 15, 2005 at 11:31 PM
According to this web site (http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/460.html), Mass. has the 5th highest overall tax burden in the nation, at about 31%. While it is better than it used to be, which is obvious from the table, Mass ain't no New Hampshire (34th highest tax burden at 27.7%)
Posted by: theautoprophet | August 16, 2005 at 09:05 AM
NH has no sales tax, all the time. The drive is worth it if your going to be purchasing enough.
Posted by: Steve | August 19, 2005 at 04:48 PM