Why do people hate doing taxes so much?
I’ll admit, I’ve only done my own twice. And both times I used one of those fancy programs on that there adding machine. I only had one W-2 the first time and two the second time. I don’t have tons of fancy investments.
Total time to complete my taxes: 30 minutes or less per year. Some of that time was waiting on the paper to be expelled from my printer.
I guess it gets more complicated when you get married and have kids and they’re in college and you have a few IRA’s and rolled over 401K’s.
I have a solution for that: Don’t get married or have kids or if you do, don’t let them go to college and don’t save for retirement. Duh!
I ended up getting a couple bucks from federal and owing about 10% of that to The Great Commonwealth of Virginia.
I went to the post office at 1:30pm on the day before due date to mail them out. I went inside, waited in line, and was out in less than 5 minutes. I didn’t get stuck in a line the day before taxes are due. But I can only imagine if I went at 1:30pm on tax due date, I’d be there for at least 30 minutes (not really a long time).
The post office clerks were really trying to push getting your envelopes certified so you can confirm that it gets there. I don’t think it’s really necessary. Don’t be a sucker!
Word to your mother!
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I was talking about this with my roommate last night. Why wait until the last minute? I never understood it. Once my W-2 forms came in the mail, I got my taxes done. My money was in my bank account about a week later. Too bad it’s already spent lol.
I wait until the minute before the last minute. That’s because I don’t have any real motivation to do it since I know my return isn’t going to be anything spectacular. However, taxes pay the most I’ve ever made in a half hour.
Mail?! That’s preposterous. eFile for the lazy!
I’ll agree… Worry about something else. I use ’snail-mail’ as well, but you won’t catch me at the PO on 4/15 unless I’m trying to get my next movie from the more elite, Netflix. I am actually paid an incentive each time I mention the name… Happy trails.
-G (Netflix subscriber)
That Dress o’ Uno was silly. But I’d love to see a hottie in that for some… odd… reason. I think you just brought up a repressed uno memory.
It took me a while to start paying bills online and I only do that because it’s free. I just started that I’d say 6 months ago. There’s no way that I’d pay computer program to digitally send my taxes in when I can do it myself for under a buck when I’m picking up my lunch at Chipotle.
I still think Blockbuster Online is bombier. But I use it just like Netflux since I never go to the actual store anymore. It is good to have that option when you have a last minute date that you don’t want to pay anything for and you make her cook while you run to blockbuster and trade in ‘Shoot Em Up’ (great movie) for ‘March of the Penguins’ (or something equally worthless) in hopes of mashing cakes later that evening.
I think I want to check out Netflix. Lazy people like me have been doing things like online bill payment from our cushy office chairs since the turn of the century!
Also, I believe the proper terminology for your lingo is ’smashing cakes’.