[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.  Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.]

I am not sure how many of our readers are in a position to take advantage of this, but frankly I hadn’t even heard it existed until Thursday when shooting the breeze with someone.  Apparently it is not getting very much attention.

This is the official Virginia page on the subject and here’s the list of the covered products.  And even if you don’t want to store up anything in case of hurricanes, a lot of the items are just useful generally.  The deal ends Tuesday, so you do have that time limitation.

Also, if you do choose to take advantage of it, make sure the store is participating.  It doesn’t do you much good to get a tax holiday if the store hasn’t programmed its registers to recognize the holiday.

By the way in a completely unrelated note this is when we celebrate the anniversary of when I became engaged to my wife.  We could go by the exact date, but we prefer to go by memorial day weekend, because it was at the end of memorial day weekend that I proposed.   I gave her seeing eye dog a treat and put aside her red-tipped white cane and…

Kidding!  Her eyes are perfectly fine (and yet she still said yes, go figure).

[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]