Debt Dumpers 2025

[barkley]

Oklahoma is tax free this weekend too. I promised my daughter we'd go to the mall for the Hello Kitty Truck today not knowing this. I am less excited than I was.

we don't have these events here but people on the eastern side of the state routinely cross the boarder into Idaho to save about 4% on sales tax and MUCH more on fuel and anything Washington imposes 'sin' taxes on (tobacco and liquor). one of my old friends in California who swears he will never leave there does wistfully speak of one area on the western side of our state that he views as 'financial paradise' because residents reap the benefit of living in income tax free Washington but live in close proximity to a neighboring Oregon town to do their day to day purchases (Oregon has NO sales tax ever) .

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

NJ has some of the highest property taxes in the country, but somehow still can’t afford to cut families any break for school supplies.
It was offered for only 2 years (after my kids were done school) and then stopped it last year.

 

[Sheree]

but we have no sales ta

NJ has some of the highest property taxes in the country, but somehow still can’t afford to cut families any break for school supplies.
It was offered for only 2 years (after my kids were done school) and then stopped it last year.

but we have no sales tax on clothing!!!

don't get me started!

 

[Nettlelondon]

We are away again staying in our holiday home for a few days as there was nothing in the diary to keep us at home.

One of my husband's clients needed some changes made to their IT system that couldn't be done during the working week so he spent a few hours both days of the weekend working. They get charged double for him working at weekends so this was pretty lucrative. Especially as he did some of it at 6 am when he woke early and couldn't get back to sleep. By the time I got up he had finished the things he wanted to do that day.

We are off to a 3 day music festival at the end of the month and had been toying with upgrading our tickets to give access to better viewing areas, "upgraded" food trucks (I have no idea how a food truck can be upgraded but hey ho) and quality toilets. I don't like to point out to the organisers that all toilets are quality - some are poor quality, some are slightly higher quality but at the end of the day thay are all portable toilets so unlikely to be luxurious.

DHs efforts this weekend my be converted into the upgrade. At least then it will feel like the effort has produced a direct benefit.

We also spent the weekend changing some furniture. We had purchased a cabinet to replace a wicker basket that we had been using as storage in the living room of the holiday home at it had fallen apart. We thought the new cabinet was the same colour as the TV unit but it turns out that over 20 years Ikea has changed the colour even though the name is the same. Outrageous! We tried living with the two but they clashed so a replacement for the TV unit was purchased and built over the weekend.

We took the old one apart relatively easily and managed to donate it to a local goodwill type of store, and they were really delighted that we had all the instructions, had labelled all the pieces as to what step they related to in those instructions and had bagged up all the bits and pieces of fittings in labelled bags! We had thought we might need to pay someone to take it all away so were really glad we managed to sort it ourselves.