March 9, 2007 • Print This Post
I’ve been working on taxes for what seems like forever now. Probably it would go faster if I didn’t keep turning on the tv (House, you rocked this week!), or playing Monopoly with a kid here and there, or going skiing (four feet of fresh powder here in Tahoe, can’t help myself) …
Probably it would be less painful if I HADN’T JUST TOSSED EVERY SINGLE RECEIPT AND PAID BILL INTO A BOX ALL YEAR.
Hi, my name is Jill and I have no organizational skills. None.
This drives my husband insane to the point where he won’t help me with the taxes until I get myself in order. Hate to disappoint, but it ain’t ever gonna happen.
So. For two days running I have been sitting on the floor with this big box in front of me, making piles. Piles of gas receipts. Piles of doctors bills. Piles of subscriptions paid (hey, honey, your Penthouse is expiring). I have piles of restaurants checks and traveling receipts (Mr. IRS, is Disneyland a write-off?) and piles of crap that I have no idea what to do with. And each little pile is turning into this staggering high, precariously stacked mountain, just waiting … yep … for a kid to come barreling into the room at the speed of light yelling “mom, she’s after me” and jump into the center of it.
Scattering papers from here to Kingdom Come.
I vowed not to cry if that happened. (If? Who am I kidding, it was BOUND to happen!)
Hey, do you think the IRS will accept a sanity plea as an excuse for being late?
Anyone else having as much fun as I am?
Posted by Jill Shalvis @ 1:00 am • Filed under: General, Jill Shalvis
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My DH is self employed. He spent a large chunk of change on an accounting program that writes checks, does invoices, sorts expenses, balances his checking account, etc. This was supposed to eliminate his need to pay an accountant to keep his books and to expedite income tax filing every year.
What is the problem you ask?
He waits until March of the following year to enter all his bank statements (checks and deposits) from the entire last year into the program. And he b*tches the entire time he is doing it.
God forbid I suggest he enter these as he gets them…..
Procrastinators unite…tomorrow!
Now see, Angie beat me to it. It would help if you’d tell people you’re over here. LOL
Picture your work area times 2 - yep, I have two rooms with piles of stuff. Taxes? I think I have that stuff around here somewhere …
Good luck chickie.
Hey Jill,
I’m so glad to see my favorite author here again.:smile:
Tell hubby what you lack in organization you make up for in your awesome writing.
Your link to Jill worked, Bailey!
We just pay to have our taxes done. I figure it’s either paying for that or for the psychiatrist when we lose our minds.
well, I couldn’t get it to work - it hates me.:shock:
My husband is a procrastinator like that. Several years ago, he kept saying he was going to do the taxes up until and including April 15. The afternoon of April 15, he is at work and I am at home 8 months pregnant and taking care of our 17 month old daughter doing the taxes. At 9:15 pm when we dropped off our taxes at the post office, I said never again would he be in charge of the taxes. Procrastinators will never change. Therefore, I do the taxes now. He drives me nuts wainting until the very end. My nerves couldn’t handle it. The kicker is that he has a degree in Financial Management and Law. WTF? Why is the education major doing the taxes? If the IRS ever comes knocking, I’m pointing at him…..
The link worked for me too Bailey
Good luck with the tall piles
Yeah right, rub it in. You’ll get yours too.:razz:
Maybe it’s just because it’s only me and I’m relatively poor… but my taxes were sent in last month and I already have my refund.
Of course, I’m Ms. Organized so it was really easy.
Yeah, it is tax time here for us in Canada as well. But I am relatively organized and with the tax program it was easy, except for the fact that the Government is using a new program itself - so no tax returns can be made electonically at the moment, and it is really, really messing up the Tax Return people. They hope to have it fixed soon, so guess what I am saying is that Hey, Jill don’t feel so bad, even the Government messes up.
Hope that nobody messes up your neat piles of information……….and you will get it done……….:grin:
sorry, my taxes are done..not much to itemized.
Our taxes were done the first week of February. I picked on hubs until he did them, but then again, he ENJOYS doing them. Um, that’s sick, right? *g*
Good luck!
Taxes, done! nah my husband is one that has to wait ’til the last minute. He even missed it one year and we had to pay a penalty. But he insists on doing it for some stupid male, macho reason!!!