Were bowling shoes, snow ski suits or lingerie on your tax-free holiday list?

CLEARWATER – 

The state’s tax-free holiday weekend was meant to help parents wallet’s before the start of the school year, but there were a few bizarre items left off — and put on — this year’s list of items.

A lot of parents were buying what one might expect: “Pencils,” Jennifer Ransford said. “Crayons, markers, glue, scissors,” Char Leininger added.

But the list of tax exempt items was a little outside of the box of your basic back-to-school needs.

If you need baby blankets, bowling shoes, snow ski suits, fishing and hunting vests, diapers or lingerie, you’re in luck. If you need a stapler, sorry about your luck.

Ransford also thought printer paper being taxed was “kind of silly since a lot of things are done on computers nowadays.”

Though rain boots or working gloves may not have made everyone’s school needs list, at least the items most people did need were on the list. “There’s nothing that I need to get that’s not exempt I don’t think,” Tiffany Corbett said.

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