Deal or Steal?

When I was younger, I knew this frugal lady that got all her stuff from North Carolina furniture warehouses. She would rent a van, drive all the way from Maryland to North Carolina, just so she could get discount warehouse rates with no tax. I'm not sure if they still do that (they might) but that's one of the quirky things that I found so bizarre about them. They were frugal to the point of being obscene. You would think that isn't possible, but she actually thought that the gas, rental and stress of driving a 19 hour round trip was worth getting a truck load of cute furniture every year for. Yeesh.