Okay, that is the rant you will hear all week. Taxes. It will take me a while. I have everything organized in files but all have to be totaled and it is a head ache. Personal, shop, studio, all have to be separated, although I do file them differently, there is always an over flow. Yuck! Then I read Judy's blog and she said the FAFSA word. I will be very glad when I no longer have to deal with them. I'm thinking 4-5 more years and I am done! Then B will be on her own. Like I pray she will be.
Many people in our religion marry very young. It is encouraged by the parents. It is much easier to pawn a daughter off on a young husband and say you are married you are on your own now. Children come and the kids are tied down with kids so no education. But now you have a pack or 2-3 packs of uneducated kids and their kids living with you. So as aggravating as helping your kids in college is, I think it is a better alternative than the other.
We have 9 more days of our challenge, let's see how well we can do. One thing that I have really made myself do although I hate it. Is write down every purchase. I am anxious to total this although I think it will scare me. This is one part of the challenge that I am going to do next month. For some reason having to write a purchase down makes me not purchase. Kind of like having to write down that ice cream in a food diary. Yeah, this works for me. Don't like it but it works.
Out My Window: Overcast and gloomy and cold. January can be the longest month, but I feel great about it right now, I think the challenges and blogging have really helped!
I need to go get dressed, do a little house work, put together a meat loaf I should have done yesterday. I am going to make myself sew at least $100.00 and then attack the taxes, I also have 3 college classes that have to be sorted out today as last week was a holiday and they didn't meet and then were cancelled on Wednesday because of snow. I also must order some costume TODAY. So I am going to get right on that.
Have a great and productive day!
Kim
I'm actually looking forward to doing my taxes, since I'm getting so much back. We need to adjust our withholdings though.
ReplyDeleteI'm dreading doing our taxes this year. We owe every year, and that's just life. Still annoying to have that little surprise at the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteLike Michelle - I am getting a nice chunk back from Uncle Sam!
ReplyDeleteI have everything I need to do our taxes and Fafsa except for Hub's e*trade account/stock info. And they don't have to get it to us until Feb. 15th....so I can't finish anything until then....not the federal, not the state, not the local, nor the FAFSA x 2 or the PHEAA(state college aid)forms x 2.
ReplyDeleteBleh!!!
I want to get this wrapped up N.O.W.!
So I can move on with my life and my 'To Do' list. I feel like Jan and Feb is spent just spinning my wheels.....!
Damn I forgot the pheaa...arent they compiling that with the fasfa this year?
DeleteBetween taxes and fasfa it makes you want to scream. But I just keep thinking two more kids with college educations...two more....
ReplyDeleteYou are right Judy, Both my educated children make way more money that their father and I. We did good, I still hate the FAFSA!!!!!
DeleteTaxes schmaxes! I think this will be the first year I will be separating Kazi's taxes from my taxes - I guess that's one more piece of the umbilical cord GONE! I'm lucky I guess that I only have the one to help through university - though one is all I could afford - hah! I figure I'm preparing her for the day I move in to live with HER!! She better be able to keep me in the luxury to which I've become accustomed lol!
ReplyDeleteWe are yet to receive any tax documents this year!! I swear, we are always the last to file among our family and friends. I can't wait to do taxes too! We should get something back, and it will be a great help for our car fund.
ReplyDeleteNo tax paperwork arrived here yet either. I guess it will start coming in soon. I should be getting some back. This will be the first year in a long time that I have done my taxes myself. But I found a free program online and hope it all works out.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you about educating kids. Having worked in the juvenile justice system, seeing multiple generation of a family that married young, had kids young, and have no education is just sad all the way around.
ReplyDeleteI am dreading taxes, as apparently I owe this year as well (a lot) even though I adjusted my withholdings. Oh well. I can't do them until I have my W2 from my other job (which wont be until mid Feb), so I will worry/panic/freak out about it at that time.
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