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Nationwide, the average cost of school supplies for families with school age children this year will be $594. Several states, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee, for example, offer a weekend of sales tax free shopping in August aimed at providing relief to parents and bumping up retail sales. Colorado doesn’t offer any incentives like that, unfortunately.
More than half that figure goes toward shoes, accessories and clothes. A mere 15 percent is actually for “school…