How exactly do the Bergen County, New Jersey "blue laws" work? If you’re a retailer, you can’t sell things like clothes or shoes or what may be deemed non-essential on a Sunday. You can buy food, medicine and even beer and wine, but not hard liquor (in most cases). Confused yet?

It’s one of the last locations in the country to have such laws, but even Bergen County residents don’t totally understand them, let alone Jersey folk who live elsewhere. Heck, even Alex Trebek was confused when a Jeopardy answer on Bergen County’s blue laws came up on a Tuesday night.

From what I've heard, at the 24-hour Walmart in Teterboro, all of the store is barricaded off on Sunday, leaving only the supermarket section open. If you head to Rite Aid in Hasbrouck Heights to buy a corkscrew on a Sunday, you will not succeed. Need to shop for birthday gifts, a winter jacket or shoes? You’ll need to head to Garden State Plaza in Paramus on Saturday along with everyone and their mother to get your shopping list taken care of while you can. RIDICULOUS!!!! People should be to shop on Sunday as they normally do in almost all other parts of the Nation.

It’s no surprise that there have been a number of attempts to lift them; it’s hard to fit all your mall-ratting into one Saturday, especially if you’re already exhausted from looking for a parking spot–which is no small feat at the Garden State Plaza. Obviously, the laws also have supporters who see the regulations as a protest of over-commercialization (which definitely has some merit if you live in Hackensack and it takes you forever to get to Paramus Park Mall, another mall in Paramus, on any day but Sunday).

And now with American Dream Meadowlands opening in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the time to get rid of these ridiculous blue laws is NOW.