Frugal Babe

We maxxed out our HSA today.  $5800, done and done.  That feels so good.  A whole lot better than shopping sprees and dinners out.  We maxxed out our HSA last year too, but we did it in the last week of the year, and it was a struggle.  I much prefer having it done in [...]

We didn’t get our floors finished this weekend, but we did make a lot more progress on our house.  We’ve finished the hallway, which involved lots of funky angles and doorways.  Last night we finished putting the baseboard molding down in the guest room/office, so it is officially complete.  We had been using that room for [...]

I just finished our taxes.  It’s the culmination of probably 40 hours of work over the last several weeks, and it feels pretty darn good.  I spent $125 to get one hour of consultation from our accountant, but other than that I did it all on my own.  I finished the state and federal corporate [...]

We incorporated our business nearly two years ago, although we didn’t start having insurance companies pay commissions to our corporate tax id number until January of 2007.  So right now I’m working on our first real corporate tax return.  Not the most fun I’ve ever had…  Yesterday I met with our accountant for an hour, [...]

We just about finished our kitchen this past weekend.  It’s very exciting to see it all come together and have it look just like we planned.  We still have some trim/paint/touching up to do, but we should be finished this week.  Then we need to get cracking on replacing the carpet in our upstairs.  We’re [...]

It’s after midnight, and I’ve been working on our taxes since about 11 am, so I’m a bit cross-eyed at the moment.  But I’m nearly finished.  I have a meeting with our accountant on Monday to go over our corporate return, which I need to finalize in order to complete our personal returns.  But it [...]