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By SHERRY ROBINSON
Published July 24, 2006
CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM PBteen, the Pottery Barn store that caters to tweens and teens, is sponsoring the Room Come True Back-to-School Sweepstakes. The winner will receive a $5,000 room makeover with design advice from PBteen. Fifty first-place winners will receive a $75 PBteen gift certificate. Enter online at pbteen.com, click on PBteen Style House and then on Room Come True Sweepstakes. You must be 13 or older to enter. The contest ends Oct. 24. PENCILS NEED A HOME Ever wonder where you are going to keep all those pencils you need for school? The Home Depot has the answer. From 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 5, the home improvement store will offer a free workshop for kids ages 5-12 in which they will build a pencil box. Each child will get a complimentary project kit, tools to use and the familiar orange apron, kid-sized of course. Ask an adult to call the nearest Home Depot for more information. SHIRTS MAKE STATEMENT Target is selling T-shirts designed by eight teenagers who won the Target and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum T-shirt design contest. The T-shirts are featured online in Target's Red Hot Shop through Saturday at www.target.com/redhotshop. The T's have names such as "Friends with Mustaches," "Disconnected" and "Pirate Music" and cost $14.99. All the profits go to the museum. The students who won are from California, New Jersey, New York and Texas. GIVE YOUR BUDGET A BOOST Florida's sales tax holiday, which runs through midnight Sunday, will help you stretch your school-shopping budget. During this week, you don't have to pay taxes on clothing, and related items, priced at $50 or less. Some things to know: * The $50 limit applies to each item, not your total. (So if you love that $20 shirt, you can buy six of them and still pay no tax.) * But the $50 limit is just that. If an item costs $55, you pay tax on the entire $55; the first $50 is not exempt. * It's not just clothes: Shoes, wallets, handbags, backpacks and diaper bags also qualify. Hair accessories and hats are on the list as well. * Beware: There are some quirks. For example, if a keychain and wallet are sold as a set, the set is taxable (the wallet is exempt, the keychain is not, so everything gets taxed). Shoes with cleats or spikes are exempt, yet baseball gloves are not. * Now is not the time to shop at airport, hotel and theme park gift shops. They aren't part of the tax-free week. If you're covered with what to wear, books priced at $50 or less and school supplies priced at $10 or less also are tax-free through Sunday. (Though, again, you'll want to check the list. Pens and pencils? Exempt. Highlighters and markers? Not.) For more information, including a list of exempt items, go to the Florida Department of Revenue Web site, www.myflorida.com/dor/. XPRESS QUOTE "I always knew I could sing . . . but I was always very shy about getting up in public. But . . . this is what I'm meant to do. Once you hear the music, you can't knock it. . . . I drive around in the car and listen to it." - Celebutante and fashionista Paris Hilton, on her new album, in US Weekly
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