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From Friday, August 3 to Sunday, August 5, the South Carolina sales tax holiday will help back-to-school shoppers stock up on clothing, calculators, computers, and comforters as well as pens, pencils, printers, and pillows.

Wallets, watches, and World of Warcraft gold will not be eligible, sad to say.

The idea is to help working folks out with paying for the ever-expanding list of must-have supplies that school age ch’urns bring home when they receive their homeroom assignments. Whippersnappers grown high enough to head off to college rack up even more expenses for the ‘rents, best you believe, so the tax free weekend helps there also.

Need a nearly exhaustive list of what may or may not qualify? The good folks at the South Carolina Department of Revenue have been kind enough to post exactly that as well as a sales tax holiday faq.