I worked on and basically finished our taxes yesterday. I will let them sit for a bit and then recheck all the numbers. We will be getting a lot of $$$ back which is good in these harsh economic times. Now we are considering whether or not to put money in our IRAs (which of course will change everything). Eh, retirement.
A few options:
1. Put in the max, feel good about our thrift, do nothing about helping the world spend its way out of the economic morass that it is in.
2. Don’t save the money, get our tax refund, go on wild vacation. rawr!
3. Don’t save the money, get our tax refund, keep the funds on hand for nonbudgeted stuff. That might be smart.
I had heard that saving money is basically you giving your future self a loan. A good way to think about things.
Amanda ripped the splinter out of my thumb the other day. She does not feel my pain. She is still sick, but it is hard to say with what as she seemed fine this morning. Lonan Kai seemed too warm, too; we gave him some ibuprofen prophetically earlier.