Friday, July 30, 2010

Virginia Tax Free Weekend is next weekend... what are you going to buy?

Next weekend, August 6-8, is Virginia's Tax Free Weekend.  I'm planning to buy lots of school supplies next week and will also be hitting the clothing racks!  I'm not planning to buy a lot of jeans just yet since my kids are mid-growth spurt.  It also stays warmer here into October where shorts do just fine for school, so I typically hold off on major blue jeans buying until it starts to get colder here. 

There are lots of states - including North Carolina which is a border state - that are having their own tax free weekends.   If your state is one offering a tax free weekend (or Maryland - they have a tax free WEEK coming up), let me know what you're planning to buy and stock up on.  I already bought a few things while I was in PA because there's no sales tax on clothes there.

3 comments:

said...

We moved to Virgina last October from Indiana. We didn't know anything about this until today. My husband went to Food City to get groceries and the checkout person told him about it. We have a son going into first grade and a daughter going into kindergarten. We are going to get their school supplies, bookbags, new shoes, new lunchboxes and some clothes. We won't have a lot to spend. Is the no tax on everything, even things like juice boxes for lunch, etc? Do the stores have any sales during this weekend?

Pinching Abe said...

Most everything that is not taxed is clothing. Food is still taxed, unfortunately!

Virginia has 3 sales tax holidays. Hurricane Preparedness is over, back-to-school will start this weekend and Energy Star is this fall. Here's a link to that: http://www.tax.virginia.gov/site.cfm?alias=stholiday#SalesTaxHolidays

Here's a link to Virginia's Sales Tax Holiday page that has links to FAQ's, the pdf list of eligible items, etc.: http://www.tax.virginia.gov/site.cfm?alias=SchoolSuppliesAndClothingHoliday

Don't forget, if you are close to NC, they have their own this weekend and Maryland's is just after ours. Whatever gets you the best deal!

Pinching Abe said...

Forgot to add: Most of the stores do have sales. I know Walmart has a roll back on glue sticks and you should think about shopping both this Saturday and Sunday since if you shop on Saturday, you get this week's deals and if you shop on Sunday, you get next week's ads. Even check places like Walgreens since they have been running BTS ads for cheap school stuff. I think Office Depot had an offer dealing with a free back pack w/a minimum purchase (I'm thinking it was like 10 bucks...)