School: Back to school shopping ripoffs?

Back to School Sales Tax Holiday is in August

August is that wonderful time of year when we break off that summer romance, kiss love goodbye and set the alarm clock for back to school days. In August 2007, Americans spent $7.5 billion on family clothing. In case you were wondering, America produces around 9.3 billion pounds of apples each year, with more than half of those apples produced by Washington State. There are 7.1 million teachers in the United States, so that should be plenty for your children to give the teacher and apple on the first day of school.

If you need some financial help with all that back-to-school shopping for the kids, the state sales tax holidays are already scheduled in most states. An excellent resource to learn more about the Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday is Associated Content Producer Irene Lynn's article titled: Back-to-School Sales Tax Takes A Holiday.

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If your kids are going to college, you can expect to pay on average around $14,203 for the school year on in-state tuition, room, and board at a four-year university or college. The average tuition, room, and board at a private school will cost you around $38,400 for the school year. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau) If you need help finding resources for your kids' college financial aid, college tuition assistance, college scholarships, student loans, work study programs, or any other way to help pay for college, you can check out these two great articles:

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After all that spending, kick back and enjoy these back-to-school songs on the school song MP3 playlist and watch these back-to-school movies. To view music videos of these back-to-school songs, click here.

Back-to-School MP3 Playlist of Best School Songs

High School Musical 3 Official Trailer
Boys of Summer by Don Henley and Billy Joel Live
Teacher by Jethro Tull
School Days by The Runaways
Swingin' School by Bobby Rydell
Back to School Again by The Four Tops
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon
Rock N' Roll High School by The Ramones
Principal's Office by Young M.C.
To Sir, With Love by Lulu
School Day by Chuck Berry
Don't Be A Dropout by James Brown
Catholic Schoolgirls Rule by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Be True to Your School by The Beach Boys
Hot for Teacher by Van Halen
School of Rock by Jack Black
My Old School by Steely Dan
Back to School by The Deftones
We're All In This Together - High School Musical

Best Back-to-School Movies

High School Musical
High School Musical 2
Clueless
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Dead Poets Society
To Sir, With Love
School of Rock
Never Been Kissed
Legally Blond
Freaky Friday








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Buy what you need for the first day of school but don’t buy too much for the rest of the year. Some items, such as pencils and pens, might be useful to stock up on if there is a great sale. But since many stores overstock on items, you may actually be able to find some bargains by scanning for sales after the back to school rush is over.

Top Reasons The Middle Class Is Disappearing

So I hear the economy in the US is bad, really bad. They say it's equivalent to the great depression and that areas of the country have already fallen into a recession. Did that sentence make sense? Hmm. The historical newsreels I watched in college come to mind. You know, the ones where the people are piled into and on top of cars and trucks heading out on the road to escape the poverty of the dustbowl states. I mean we see it all the time now since we've entered the second great depression.

OK, wait a minute, I haven't seen this mass migration of poverty stricken friends and neighbors piling into their SUV's or 4 wheel drive trucks and heading out of town in search of a better life with nothing more then a suitcase in hand and the clothes on their backs. In fact, I don't see anybody who's changed much of anything in their daily lives. Joe blow across the street, (or is it Joe the plumber, I'll have to check the mailbox) he doesn't seem to be doing things differently. He still has his same job and he still drives there every morning and drives home every night. His wife hasn't left him and his kids look well fed. Hmm. Maybe this deserves a closer look.

I consider myself run of the mill, standard lower middle class. Yes folks, I am part of the poverty stricken middle class that brings in less then 250,000 a year; I hear you have to bring home 250,000 now to be considered high end middle class. Oh, poor me, I can't afford that in ground swimming pool or an open bar at my parties! I don't even have a vacation home on the beach or a time share anywhere. I don't own an Escalade or a new hybrid. Yes folks, in this economy life is tough in the suburbs.

Every news show I turn on tells me how bad I'm doing and it's a good thing I watch them because if they hadn't told me I wouldn't know. Dummy me. I'm poor and I'm pissed about it. I'm mad that I'm probably days away from losing my job. Why do I know this? Because THEY say so! Unemployment is at 6% and hundreds of jobs are being lost daily right here in my state. I'm only a paycheck away from a bread line. You can't see them all the time but I'm catching up quickly to the homeless and dirt poor. They are everywhere, are you blind?!

OK, wait a minute. Where are all these poor people anyway? I mean we always have the poor but shouldn't there be a lot more of them? Millions have supposedly lost their homes so why isn't my local shelter overflowing with these families. I don't see them begging on the streets as our politicians would have me believe and where are all the people walking to work now because they can't afford gas? I hear them talking all the time, it's all over the news, NO ONE can afford gas. I don't know who's buying it but no one can afford it. If they can't afford it why aren't they walking to work? I don't see them walking to work. I don't see any increase in foot traffic at all in my town and I don't see the bicycle shops raking in the money because now everyone is of course riding a bike.

OK, wait a minute. Where are all the bicycle riders? I don't see the bicycle riders. In fact I don't see any decrease in automobile transportation at all regardless of the time of day. And shouldn't there be an over abundance of cars for sale. After all I know they can't afford the payments let alone the insurance. Think of the money they could save getting rid of the families two cars, why they could pay the mortgage with that money. Hmmm

OK, wait a minute.

Things just aren't adding up, but don't tell me I'm being lied to. Don't tell me I'm not just around the corner from financial disaster. I already canceled my vacation because they told me I couldn't afford to go. They think I'm pissed now just wait until I find out I could have gone to Disneyland.



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