Andy and I finished our amended income tax forms and Andy mailed them Tuesday and Wednesday. The federal one seemed like such a waste. We wrote them a check for the $2 we owed, spent $1.40 to mail it and the forms, and paid another $3.35 to certify the delivery. Not much money, but when we consider the time involved, both theirs and ours…..
Anyway, hopefully it’s done and we don’t receive any more corrected forms for 2016. We did have a good laugh about it, mainly because we kept thinking of Andy’s grandmother. At a certain point she refused to deal with finances. The family joke is if a bill or a check came in she would “tear it up and flush it down the toilet.” He and I haven’t done that yet, but we do use the phrase a lot, and it never fails to make us laugh.
Yes, it is a funny expression.
Only problem is that paper doesn’t flush. It’s surprising how few people don’t know this. Thus, many many years ago, in my twenties, I found out a lie. I was cleaning the bathroom when coming across a crunched up piece of paper in the toilet which I fished out (see – ever the efficient housewife). Well, well, well, well … how very interesting. The only good thing about it that it touched my heart how innocent some people are when trying to cover up their tracks, and how few, it appears, have little idea of the laws of physics (and cleaning).
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Sorry, should read “… surprising how many people don’t know this” or “how few people know this”.
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It turns out lettuce does not either. I tried this only once in my youth. Oops!
I said it was a family story, but Andy says his grandmother told his mother that’s what she had been doing. It didn’t sound completely true to me because I think it would plug up the toilet. At any rate, his mother took over the finances.
And Kaitlin, yes, I remember that too. Just one of my failed attempts to get you to eat nutritious food. 🙂
most of my darn household bills come via the Net – of course my recycle bin could stand the extra stuff – a good many of those bills get automatically paid as well!!!
We’ve simplified our finances too. Automatic payments help a lot!
i still do my taxes on the paper forms.
I know they don’t like that. I picture it going to some poor guy’s desk that groans because he has to handle the dinosaurs all day.
life is hard poor guy. and then you die. 🙂
unless you ‘ tear it up and flush it down the toilet of course! ‘ 😀
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Having reached very senior state and with income well below the minimum levels for paying income tax, I may not have to file a return this year. I will know soon from my Accountant.
I imagine it was fairly easy before, thanks to your accountant. Delegating is a good solution too.
I got tired of all that stuff and turned it all over to my Dave. If he dies, his sister will take over. I’m NOT doing financial stuff anymore. It’s good to have family you trust.
Sounds like a good plan!
the saying of the “tear it up” – probably was really a joke unless of course you were using an outdoor toilet which was not plumbed in.
When I was a teenager in this region (My parents had bought a house on the shore) we had an outhouse – there was a man with a truck who came weekly and exchanged the metal base. It was quite a walk from the house around the back…
then sewer connections (for everyone) were invented and we got an indoor flushing thing…
I suspect a lot of things were put into those type of toilets including “lettuce leaves” 🙂
Tear it up and toss it in the trash doesn’t have quite the same effect. 😀
Jenny and I have similar jokes. If there’s a huge pile of washing up to do, I say “It’s okay, I’ll just throw it all out of the window”.
I’m glad I don’t have to do any tax returns. They look like a total nightmare.
When Andy and I came back from a road trip once we looked around the living room at our suitcases and stuff from the car and the big pile of mail we had to deal with. Andy said, “It’s hopeless. Let’s just leave, close the door behind us, and start over somewhere else.
Finally your blog is instant access again. Still no idea why it went on a go-slow.
I’m glad about that!
that sounds like a perfect solution “close the door, and start over again…”
i’m pretty sure, we have all had those moments – over something. I know that if I had certain parts of my life over again, I would do things vastly different.
yesterday was a case in point, my ex-DH & I sometimes do things together, like an outing – that somehow didn’t get off the ground and only what I partially said at f/b is the full truth! I was hopping mad with him when I spied him down at the village late morning…and he didn’t seem to recall that we both have a landline…& that his seemingly more and more thoughtless actions were just alright. I worried enough that if by today, I hadn’t made contact, I would ask my friend Alison to drive me to his unit to check up on him…
Time can make a huge difference. Circumstances and we can change a lot.