The clouds have moved in a little bit and there is a 20% chance of rain tomorrow, so we're rescheduling our boat rental from Horseshoe Bay and trip to Bowen Island to next weekend. Instead, we're going to do a road trip to Washington State to (very exciting) open a mailbox, so we have a U.S. address.
We're doing this for a number of reasons:
1) Packages - if we want to shop online, shipment to Canada is SOOOO expensive compared to the U.S. This way, we can continue to shop on gilt.com, ruelala.com, and wherever else, guilt free :)
2) If you have over a certain amount of money in your U.S. bank account and have a Canadian address, the U.S. will send your interest earnings to Canada and double tax you. Since we're taxed enough, we will be giving the Washington State address to our U.S. bank.
3) Washington has no state taxes, so this will further decrease our shipping charges when we shop online!
4) People won't have to pay for Canadian postage, if they are feeling really cheap, and want to send us a letter.
5) Some online U.S. systems/accounts don't recognize Canadian addresses (i.e. Verizon)
Some of you are probably wondering how far our mailbox will be from our home. It's only a 45 minute drive, so no big deal...It's just like going to Garden State Mall in NJ on a Saturday afternoon....and we can visit Tar-jay (Target) while we're over the border :)
Anyone going to be in Seattle this Saturday?
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