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AFAIK, yes.
All of their sales normally end that day, right?
AFAIK, yes.
That would mean going out there this weekend and I refuse!
JB just showed a link to walmart though proving me wrong.
Don't forget that all the people from Mexico will be here this weekend. They are really rude!!
After reading this thread, I am against the tax holiday.
There are millions of dollars of tax revenue that are foregone for this thing every year.
We need to use that money to pump it back into schools... so that we won't have idiots like Clandestino running around.
lmao well said Scott.We need to use that money to pump it back into schools... so that we won't have idiots like Clandestino running around.
Once again, any money you can SAVE is fantastic.
Typical of people that have no concept of money, or any concept of saving IE Duff MCLeech
dont understand that to a family of say 4
guy makes 35 grand a year.
Shopping for school clothes for the kids that GROW, this is a fantastic 3 days.
Should more be included?? Yeah backpacks and school supplies should.
But whatever these famalies can save, no matter how little it is, thats like ing about getting the tax rebate Bush ins uted a couple years ago
"Well its only 200 dollars"
WTF, any money taht you can KEEP out of the Government's pocket, and in YOURS is a great thing.
I still cant believe how many people look stuff like this that can HELP real people out in the mouth.
I am well off, and I earn a great living, but I had friends in school that werent as lucky as me, and I understand where they come from, or what it is like when you can take advantage of stuff like this.
I know of several places that are having sales this weekend. In fact, I have a part-time job at a uniform store (scrubs, labcoats, etc.), and we're having a 1/3 off sale. Friday thru Sunday.
My other part-time job is not having a sale, but they surely do not jack up prices just for the weekend.
I've experienced the San Marcos outlets on tax-free weekend. What a cluster that is.
Most places do not have sales this weekend. Therefore people save only 8%. They should just wait for a sale or have shopped last week to save way more than 8%. My gf's sister just shopped at JCPenny for her 3 kids. She said, they had a special. For every $50 you bought you got $10 off. Wow, that is more than 8%. That was on top of the 30-70% off tons of in the store. She bought all her kids clothing for $200!
But, I guess that is stupid right, TPark, Scott, and foofida.. She should have waited and bought the same stuff for $700 so she could have saved a whopping $56!
Actually Tax free weekend is pretty bad for us
We spend an extra 5 minutes per transaction explaining to customers the fact that you can go get a 100 dollar pair of sneakers tax free, but your pencils and notebook filler paper have to be taxed.
I have never understood why school supplies have to be taxed but clothes do not.
and even then it has to be under $100 an item. so, their new basketball shoes are most likely not tax-free.
Maybe some of the haters will get it when they have a wife and 2-3 kids to put through school, those costs add up in a hurry.
You're not talking about $8. Usually parents buy as much of a new back to school wardrobe for their kids as they can afford, which if you've got multiple kids could run you several hundred dollars.
Yeah, it's just $8 per hundred, but if they drop $300-$400 on clothes that's school supplies for the kid for the whole fall, maybe even spring.
Thanks for the reminder on this weekend though, I'm gonna go to the lake all weekend and stay the away from the stores
That's been my observation as well. I'm not a big shopper, so my contact with this may be limited, but it seems like you get better net savings from a sales event than from the tax-free weekend. The stores love it, they can charge a little more than the sales prices they were planning to sell them on a sales weekend, and pocket the difference vs. sending it to the state as sales tax.
yes... BUT everyone's also throwing huge sales. And if you go to places like Sears they are GUARENTEED to have an extra 50-75% off of the clearance price
can't go wrong on that.
Also the stores will really be hping to make thier $$ on back to school and will be hoping to unload the last of thier summer/spring stuff. So I laways buy up thier summer/spring stuff.. since i wear it all year round and I'll be set for next spring & summer.
I did that last year......an hour wait for a fitting room praying to God that what you picked out for your kid(s) fit, and hour wait for the restroom
that. Rolling Oaks Mall wasn't that bad.
Certain agricultural items automatically don't have sales tax (like feed, vaccinations, etc.) Why do backpacks and obvious school supplies (not to be used as office supplies) have to be taxed, anytime? You should be able to fill out a tax-exempt form for school-related purposes.
any parent spending that much $$ on 1 pair of shoes for thier kid needs to have thier head examined....unless they got Oprah type money.
imagine spending that much on kicks and your growing preteen/teen's feet are too big for them 5 months later..
I did that last year......an hour wait for a fitting room praying to God that what you picked out for your kid(s) fit, and hour wait for the restroom
that. Rolling Oaks Mall wasn't that bad.
Ingram Park mall is the .
everyone heads out to Rolling Oaks or North Star on TFW.. but not me. I'm loyal.
I have to agree. You can't tell me that the stores don't jack up their prices or maybe they are no longer 30% off but 20%. If they keep the same prices I have seen for the month of July then I'll admit I am wrong but I am not about to go out this weekend to prove it.
Actually, when I went last year...Foley's was having an awesome sale (and tons of stuff --like all the summer clothes that they still wear until November-- in the clearance racks) on top of the sales tax break.
any parent spending that much $$ on 1 pair of shoes for thier kid needs to have thier head examined....unless they got Oprah type money.
imagine spending that much on kicks and your growing preteen/teen's feet are too big for them 5 months later..
I agree, if you are spending that much on shoes for a kid then you don't need to be worrying about tax free days.
I spent $100 on 4 pairs for two kids. I bought the buy 1 get 1/2 off at a shoe store at the Forum last week.
any parent spending that much $$ on 1 pair of shoes for thier kid needs to have thier head examined....unless they got Oprah type money.
imagine spending that much on kicks and your growing preteen/teen's feet are too big for them 5 months later..
My kids are very hard on shoes, the cheaper the crap I buy them, the more frequently they have to be replaced. Some places I just don't compromise.
My kids are very hard on shoes, the cheaper the crap I buy them, the more frequently they have to be replaced. Some places I just don't compromise.
Well I definitely don't buy cheap but I don't spend $100/shoes either. Speaking of shoes when did converse canvas shoes become so expensive? Its not like they could possibly cost a lot to make.
I did that last year......an hour wait for a fitting room praying to God that what you picked out for your kid(s) fit, and hour wait for the restroom
that. Rolling Oaks Mall wasn't that bad.
I cannot handle that. My sanity is worth more than the $30-40 I would save.
, I just bought 2 pairs of shoes for myself off the clearence on Target.com and the total with shipping was less then $20.
So for clarification: you WOULD/DO spend $100 + on 1 pair of shoes for your kids? Casue thats the $$ amount Clandestino was talking about.
I hate North Star Mall, and Rolling Oaks is the next closest. I've been going there since it first opened....when we referred to it as the "Ghost Mall".
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