The 5 Weirdest Tax-Exempt Items

By Jessie Gable

The 2013 State Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ends Sunday, Aug. 4. 

In looking at the items available for tax exemption this weekend, some of them make sense. Others? Well, not so much. 

Shirts, pants, socks, and shoes are all fitting, yes? Then there are the items that make you scratch your head.

Here are the top 5 strangest items on the tax exempt list:

1. Adult diapers — This is in no way meant to embarrass anyone who has to wear these. The strange part of this listing is that other personal hygiene items are not on the tax exempt list.

2. Beach capes — Not sure what that is? We weren't either. Apparently Google doesn't know either. The best we can come up with is an item that Aquaman would wear. If you buy a beach cape this weekend, please send Patch a photo.

3. (Regular?) capes — Your average superhero cape is tax free this weekend.

4. Bonnets — Are we Southern enough for this to be relevant?

5. Wedding Gowns — I suppose the idea that you can buy a tax-free wedding dress is appropriate considering that you can also buy tax-free baby bibs. If anyone is getting a baby bib to go to high school, we would hope they also had to buy a tax-free wedding dress.

These aren't all the strange things: Dress shields, support hosiery, waders and "dry suits" also made the cut.

See the full list here. Tell us, what do you think about the list?