Today was the beginning of the statewide Tax Free Holiday weekend! We can shop our hearts content on anything relating to back to school. Clothes, supplies, electronics and more.
Now AAFES is our military PX affiliate. Their big sales pitch to counter act this sales holiday, Every day is tax free!
This is true. There are no taxes charged on a military installation.
However, AAFES seems to forget that we are Army. We don't have the money to shop there.
When you have 3 kids, all still undergoing massive growth spurts. Its just not feasible that we spend $60 on a pair of pants for each child. The PX is set up like a department store. Which looks nice, but so does feeding your children.
So every year to combat this holiday, we are bombarded with "Everyday is tax-free" flyers.
So being the redneck I am, I went to Wal-Mart. As did everybody else apparently.
You walk down the aisles, elbow to elbow, rushing for the Elmers Glue. You hear panicked people looking for pencil top erasers, you see folders flying overhead, as one tries to figure out prong or no prong!!
There seemed to be a shortage of Crayola brand crayons. I know this because of the amount of tears flooding the aisles. IT HAS TO BE CRAYOLA!!! (and no it wasn't a child)
Then you hit the lunchbox aisle....(more than picked over) my son has a choice of Tinkerbell or Lisa Frank. I hope he doesn't get beat up. Do they typically beat up a kid in Kindergarten for that kind of thing?
But hey the kid wore a tie with a t-shirt to school today, if he can handle that he can handle anything.
Tomorrow starts day 2 of the holiday. Being a Saturday, I'm sure it will be a zoo. All the crazy women trying to get good deals on socks and underwear.
So I better get to bed, I gotta get up early to show them how its done!
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