The Federal tax code consists of thousands of pages of instructions and rules. The chances that the “average bear” (me) understands the rules is almost “0”. To reduce errors, I blindly plug numbers into a purchased computer tax program. The computer prints tax forms (I transmit by mail) on 34 pages of paper. My copies are another 43 pages. My taxes are now figured correctly! Right!
Your Mom and I finally exhaused our Christmas movie gift card. We saw “Still Alice” starring Juliane Moore. She plays a 50 year old “brainiac” teacher that has inherited alzhiemers disease. We picked the movie because Moore was up for an Academy Award for best actress. She won the by the way. Alzhiemers is scary stuff. You’ll know when I’ve gone “over the edge” when I can’t remember the names of all 3 of you kids.
I’ve been looking for ideas on how to reduce living expenses. Cutting out soda? Nope. Eating more meals at home? Nope. Cutting out cable TV? Nope. You know this process of giving up things is a bitch. Wait, I have one obvious saving. Instead of having two cars, your Mom and I can get by on just one car. That gets rid of insurance costs, maintenance costs, gas costs and annual depreciation. Now I just have to figure out who is willing to give up their car!
It is hard to believe that my snow tires will be off the car in less than 30 days.
Love,
Dad