taxes

The Cost Of A Car

August 15, 2010

In my last post, I mentioned that I’ve only driven my car 10,000 miles in the last three years.  A reader asked whether I’d considered getting rid of the car all together, and I thought that our conversation deserved its own post, in case some people had missed it in the comments section.  This was [...]

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Bogleheads

March 22, 2010

I wanted to share a good forum with you all.  Some of you are probably already regular visitors to Bogleheads, but if you aren’t, I highly recommend it.  The tagline of the forum says “investing advice inspired by the example of Jack Bogle” (Jack Bogle started Vanguard), although the topics discussed extend beyond just investing [...]

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Our New Retirement Accounts

February 23, 2010

Back before we became self-employed, my husband and I each worked for a large company, and we both had 401k accounts.  When we quit our jobs, we rolled those accounts over to IRAs, and that has been our retirement savings ever since.  In the early days, we didn’t contribute anything at all, but gradually worked [...]

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Carnival Of Personal Finance, And Why I Do Our Taxes Myself

February 22, 2010

The Carnival of Personal Finance is live over at Budgets Are Sexy.  There are tons of great articles, but here are some of my favorites this week: Money Beagle asks if the bank forced you to sign your mortgage.  Prepared to get fired up – there’s lots of discussion in the comments too. You Have [...]

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Don’t Fake It Till You Make It

May 4, 2009

We were cleaning last night, getting the house ready for a meeting with our new Realtor this morning (it went great, she’s great, life is great).  When I was cleaning the floor in my husband’s office, it struck me that he still works at the same small desk he had when I met him, eight [...]

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Turbo Tax Give Away!

March 31, 2009

For all you readers who haven’t filed your taxes yet, I have another give away.  Yes, I’m just full of good stuff this week.  Turbo Tax is giving two of my readers web cards with a prepaid access code (includes one free federal + state preparation + efiles) for Turbo Tax Deluxe Online (approximately $65 [...]

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Cross The HSA Off The List!!

April 10, 2008

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 [...]

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Home Improvement Progress and Taxes Filed!

March 31, 2008

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 [...]

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Taxes Done!

March 21, 2008

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 [...]

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I Will Be So Happy When Our Taxes Are Finished

March 18, 2008

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, [...]

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