I almost always do our taxes twice. I do a preliminary run through as soon as we have all (or most) of our paperwork. And later I’ll sit down with TurboTax and do a complete return. I like to know what’s coming up. This week, partly in preparation for yesterday’s Coffee Talk post, I did the first run through of our 2011 return. Last year, we owed around $1,100. This year, C only received half asread more…
This post is part of February Coffee Talk, as hosted by First Gen American. Please check out her site to see all the other entries in the series. What can you learn about me from my tax return? There are a lot of the standard little things. Married, somewhat traditional- we have the same last name, C’s name is listed first on the tax return. No kids. We own our home. We have lots ofread more…
This is, in the words of Sam from Financial Samurai, a whale post. I usually try to break essays like this into two posts, but I think this one works best as a single piece. It was, appropriately enough, inspired by Sam’s own whale post- a guest post over at Untemplater called Quit Your Job and Die Alone, which is about looking honestly at revenue vs profits when making the decision to quit your day jobread more…
It’s a Blog Swap! Today, we’re answering the question “What do you spend money on that brings you the most value.” Below is a guest post from Erika at Newlyweds on a Budget. Erika blogs about managing finances in a relationship. Make sure to hop on over to her blog to read how I answered the question. For more fun, go on over to Narrow Bridge Finance for a round up of all the posts in this blog swap. And be sureread more…
Reading Money for College Project’s post about his Carnival Cruise: A Lesson in Wealth Distribution reminded me of the first time I noticed a homeless person. (I know, my mind works in odd ways. You just have to go with the flow.) I can’t say for certain it was the first time I saw a homeless person. Growing up in a small town, we had the well known strange folks- the green & purple ladyread more…
Back in September, Jana @ Daily Money Shot did a series of “Confessions”(link is to Confession #1). Here is one of my confessions. I judge you based on the way you treat customer servicepeople. You may want to know how this is related to money- Well, most of the time, when I am dealing with a customer service person, it has something to do with money- I’m buying something, returning something, or disputing a charge. Andread more…
This post is in response to the Sept Coffee Talk Topic posted by Sandy over at First Gen American. Go visit her to see her Household Metaphors post as well as a list of all the participating bloggers. When we went to England in 2008, we realized quickly that our hotel rooms didn’t have alarm clocks or even phones. It seemed like no one wanted us to get up in the morning for our free breakfast.read more…
So I’m not certain if the “7 Things” posts started with Wemay be poor, but we are happy or Making Senseof Cents. What I do know is that I stole it via TheHappy Homeowner. Since in my last post I decided that I needed to come upwith some new goals, I thought this would be a good way to do it, along withreminding myself of the things we have already accomplished. 7 Things We Have Doneread more…
I was challenged by Frugal Students to participate in the 7 Links Project. While I am happy to comply, it’s a little hard with this particular blog, as this will be post #44. That’s not a whole lot to draw from. Since I have two other regular blogs (and a micro-fiction site) I’ll be drawing some of my entries from those. I’ve listed the name of the blog right after each link, so if you onlyread more…
I’ve joined the Yakezie challenge, since Jana over at Daily Money Shot seems to be so happy she did. My current Alexa rating is 7,121,869. The goal is to get to under 200,000 in the next 6 months. Yikes! Well, I like goals and challenges, so 200,000, here we come!
