Somehow I dropped by an art/craft store in the same mall where an outdoors store is. (I had another reason that I dropped by this store which I will post next in a few days.) I was just thinking there might be something useful. Looking around things, my jaw was about to fall from the surprise and then I was about to scream for excitement. I did find closed-cell foams in various colors that were nothing different from those at fly-shops.
Here are two things I have to discuss; price and size. Large orange and black foams are from the art shop with stunningly 99-cent!!!!!! Then those in a little plastic bag are from the fly-shops with the same price or sometimes even higher!!
Here's the description of the foam. 12" x 18", I even didn't do the math for comparison. And I think I am a bit older than 4-year-old.........
Now we see how fly-shops make money!! Oh well, we all know fly-fisher and fly-tyer are usually talking about several dollars such as shipping & handling and sales tax charged by states where we live or shops locate.I myself buy gears that cost over "a few bills" from shops in either Oregon or Montana. Shipping fee is fair to none and no sales tax while if I buy the same gears in same price around here in WA, I am charged around 8% tax. Sometimes sales tax over the shipping!!!
West Yellowstone charges 3% sales tax, though it's in Montana, as "tourist-town-tax", something like that. I don't always like it but I kind of understand and don't mind leaving little a bit of my money because the town is totally empty from the fall, through winter, to early spring. I want its business to thrive in order to keep the town as one of the best fishing destinations in the world........
This is probably one of a few reasoning that my tax might be spent in a right way, maybe...........
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