Craziness with a 9.25% Discount

This weekend was Tennessee's tax free weekend.  School supplies, clothing, and technology were without sales tax.

My aunt and I decided to brave the crowds and make the best of this chance at an almost 10% discount.  Every little bit helps after all.  We were really on a mission to find pants to fit my very tall and very skinny children.  I think they might have space alien genes.  If they could just stop growing, I would be able to sit by the pool sipping umbrella drinks instead of shopping for clothes.  We also had to find shirts with collars for Paige.  Her new school has a very strict dress code that is similar to a uniform without calling it a school uniform.  Apparently all the other parents at her school were also looking for these shirts because each store had a very limited selection.  We were able to find enough to get the kids started for the school year.

Did I mention rule number one for clothing for my kids?  They are not allowed to wear white!  All three of them have the ability to roll their lunches down the front of their shirts.  If it were an Olympic event, they would have many gold medals decorating their walls.

I have strange kids and this weekend just re-confirmed it.  I enticed the boys to come shopping with me by bribing them with different things.  No, I am not against bribery, especially when they have to try on several pairs of pants to make sure they go past their ankles!  Xavier was enticed with a new pair of sneakers.  His old sneakers found their way into the garbage can on the last day of school.  Jacob was enticed by a new lunch box, one that wasn't his brothers in a school year past.  I think the amount of choices really boggled his mind.  He went up and down the aisle several times before he finally made his choice.  He has a very discriminating tastes after all.

All in all we were successful.  They are all going to be clothed on the first day of school.  They will all have their backpacks filled with the necessary school supplies, and they all have their very own, not hand me down lunch boxes or backpacks.  WooHoo!  High five to my aunt for sticking in there with the craziness of shopping with the kids and having the sense to kill a shopping expedition into a store when the checkout line wrapped to the back of the building.  Thanks!  I don't think I could have survived the weekend without you.