filed our taxes last night!!

the_magic_number

WooHoo!!  We are back to getting a refund (after the whole Roth IRA debacle last year).  DH wants to pay on some bills but I want to buy a new camera.  Why did I marry such a fiscally-responsible guy ;o)

playindagamewell

i am bummed our return this year (first married one) SUCKS! i have to consider it's also the first one i don't have any school expenses on it, but... yick.. i miss more money

i will finalize and file over the weekend

blondiegirl

Whoooho-good for you!! Ours are done as well-DH needs a new car so we are going to use some to put towards that, pay some bills and I want a wii or ps2 so I can get guitar hero!! I love playing that when we go to our friends house!!!-hope you get your camera!!

iheartsean

We are usually ready to file but not at all this year!

 

Congrats on your new camera!  Sounds like a good deal!

buckeyechik

lol  To balance out your splurging tendencies   DH and I are the same balance--I want to save or spend on something responsible and he wants to buy something.  Namely a TV.  lol!!

But congrats on the refund--we did a preliminary run of our taxes and should be getting a good chunk back, too

shannanicole

I am so jealous of people that can easily file taxes.  I haven't even gotten all my tax stuff yet, let alone done all my expenses, let alone figured out anything.  PLUS, I always owe money, it sucks!

Danica1

I'm done and will file tonight or tomorrow. :-) I get back a huge chunk and it's just going to go in the bank.  Gonna sit on it for awhile.

LittleHowell

We aren't getting a whole lot back this year, but whatever we do get back we decided we're going to spend it on something irresponsible.  We just want to help the economy. 

ASwank

I hear you Shanna.  We still have at least three stubs that we are waiting for.  It is so frustrating. 

Plus, I have to run our taxes three different ways this year.  Jointly, separately with the houses on his, and separately with the houses split between ours.  That's a total of 5 returns and I have to do it at both the state and federal level before I decide which one is best.  The last few years I found that even if you pay more in federal you save a lot more in state to file separately.

Then, I have to do both Columbus and Dublin tax returns since we work in Cbus but live in Dublin.  I figure it takes me 60 hours ever year and I hate it. 

Temp536318000001135

We are almost all done with our federal taxes...then we have two state returns to do (Ohio and Arizona). We were planning to owe quite a bit of money because they do not take taxes out of Chris' grad school stipend each month, but actually we will not owe very much (at least at the federal level), so we are quite happy.

Last year we got a big return and we were partly responsible and partly not...we split the return in thirds. One-third went to savings for our trip last summer; one-third went to paying off a credit card; one-third went to us as "fun money". Then we split that one-third fun money between us and each bought stuff for ourselves.

IT'SRACHEL

its good that you balance eachother out.. you can always buy a camera when you get the other check come may/june.
we havent touched our taxes yet...
but with 3 kids and a mortgage, i am sure we will get a return.