Yesterday, the Dow fell 800 points, my phone news section blew up. “Dow Plummets” “Stock Market Crashes” etc. etc. It sounds super scary. I called my husband and joked, “So are we poor now?” He laughed. I told you all, we are finance nerds this is humor to us. Our sad comedy aside, what does […]
April was Henry’s Birthday. I had a whole plan for an Avengers theme, and I needed balloons. Personally, I do not like balloons. They cause my kids to fight, they are loud when they pop, and they clutter the house. I know…Birthday BLASPHEMY! My boys on the other hand LOVE them. Like a good mom, […]
I feel like I hear all the time, “Well, I graduated school, I have a job, I think I am ready to buy a house.” Are you? Should you? We own our home and we have had a YEAR! A little background on our home. We bought it brand new 6.5 years ago. We were […]
So you are all filed and feeling pretty good, but you get a phone call. A scary, threatening phone call from the “IRS” that you did something wrong, you owe money, the tax police are coming to get you! HANG UP The IRS, the U.S. Tax Court, and the Taxpayer Advocate Service (“TAS”) have all […]
Have you finished your taxes yet? This time of year my pet peeve is all the advertisements promising you a BIG refund! Like if you get a huge refund you won some kind of tax game. You beat the IRS. Guess what? The bigger the refund the more the IRS beat YOU. Before you get […]
The quick answer is April 15th (April 17th in Maine and Massachusetts). Yep, Monday. You have less than a week to dig through all that odd tax mail that was sent to you, dig up all those charitable receipts, and figure out how to organize it all for a whole new Tax Code. Yes, the […]
New Year’s Resolutions, I simultaneously LOVE and HATE them. I love a New Year, it is fresh, a New Start. New Year, New You, all of that. But you are still YOU. You have to start with what you have. If you have been sitting on the couch eating potato chips for the last 10 […]
My husband and I kind of psycho out this time of year. I would like to say it is on fun things like Christmas decorating or presents or other fun things… NOPE. We are total nerds. We go nuts on end-of-year planning, and, worse, on next-year-budget planning. I am going to spend the next few […]
It is December and everyone is going nuts. If you are like me you avoid the malls (any and all kinds strip, indoor, outdoor, whatever) like crazy. Just the parking lot is a war zone, so that means a TON of online shopping. It is sort of like Christmas twice! Once when it comes to […]
My husband spoiled me and took me to Elton John on Saturday. E.J. is currently on his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” and sold out the State Farm Arena both Friday and Saturday. He has been at this whole music thing over 50 years and still at the TOP of his game. I can’t imagine […]
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