Tax Day WEDNESDAY

kvruns · April 2020

It is tax day.... kind of. Since they extended the deadline it isn't quite the same but it is April 15th.

MNNEBride · April 2020

Good morning! DH and I met 16 years ago on 4/15/04. Today is our 16th "meetiversary" - easy to remember since it's tax day.

MyNameIsNot · April 2020

Well, my stimulus check came today, so that's sort of tax day like? Otherwise, SSDD here. It got cold (cold for us) overnight, and it was quite chilly this morning. I'm cuddled in my office with slippers and the space heater on.

Our fireplace needs to be looked at (it's gas starter, wood burning) before we use it. When we bought the house there was tons of ash, but it looked like it hadn't been used in a while. I thought we were close enough to spring that we should just put it off until the fall, but now I wish we'd done it sooner. I'm thinking of switching the whole thing to gas logs. Has anyone done that?

climbingsingle · April 2020

Ugh. I do not have good update. My friend's dad passed away yesterday from Covid. And pretty much the only thing I can do is just send food and flowers to her house. And it's awful. I hate this.

MissKittyDanger · April 2020

@climbingwife oh I'm sorry to hear

MNNEBride · April 2020

@MyNameIsNot - yay for a stimulus check!
@climbingwife - I'm so sorry for your Friend's loss

banana468 · April 2020

@climbingwife I'm so sorry.

kvruns · April 2020

sorry to hear that @climbingwife

MyNameIsNot · April 2020

So sorry, @climbingwife

mrsconn23 · April 2020

Oh no @climbingwife I'm so sorry. That's awful.

Happy meetaversary @MNNEBride

We haven't gotten our check. The stimulus link is live, but I go to check my status and it tells me it can't find my payment status. I double checked our 2018 filing, because I haven't gotten to 2019 yet, and we definitely were well, well below the AGI threshold. Not shocked, considering our gov't. But how fucking annoying.

To add another layer of fuckery, they deducted pretty much everyone's benefits twice from Friday's check. My check is only short by $100 or so, but I can't imagine what could have been taken out of people's checks who pay for higher priced benefits.

We finally put DefConn's desk in my office. He's coming in more often to bother me. LMAO

SSDD for the most part.

charlotte989875 · April 2020

Oh @climbingwife I’m so sorry! It really sucks you can’t be, physically, there for her right now.

charlotte989875 · April 2020

It’s snowing. Like more than just flurries and it’s sticking to the ground. I’m over it. Running outside is my only time out of the house and it’s really hard to do that when it’s snowing.

But in a weird quarantine miracle H asked if I wanted to do yoga with him this morning during his company’s virtual practice. 1) we’ve NEVER worked out together even tho both of us are really active and 2) H is not a yoga person. Turns out he’s actually really good at it!

charlotte989875 · April 2020

mrsconn23 said:

Oh no @climbingwife I'm so sorry. That's awful.

Happy meetaversary @MNNEBride

We haven't gotten our check. The stimulus link is live, but I go to check my status and it tells me it can't find my payment status. I double checked our 2018 filing, because I haven't gotten to 2019 yet, and we definitely were well, well below the AGI threshold. Not shocked, considering our gov't. But how fucking annoying.

To add another layer of fuckery, they deducted pretty much everyone's benefits twice from Friday's check. My check is only short by $100 or so, but I can't imagine what could have been taken out of people's checks who pay for higher priced benefits.

We finally put DefConn's desk in my office. He's coming in more often to bother me. LMAO

SSDD for the most part.

I can’t even get to the site because it’s so busy. We also didn’t file 2019 yet so I’m guessing we’ll have a similar issue.

MissKittyDanger · April 2020

We also have an extended tax deadline - normally at end of April, now until June.
We already did our taxes though, since my work does them and they're efiled.

M and I have been watching "Umbrella Academy" It's weird, but in a good way? We just finished ep 7 of 10
Is anyone else watching? I'm not sure what we'll watch after, probably finish the PVR Dr Who

CharmedPam · April 2020

@climbingwife, so sorry to hear that. It’s awful, and yeah, sucks that you can’t physically be there.

@charlotte989875 happy you have a yoga buddy!
@MissKittyDanger, your work does them? That’s amazing! Like pull in all your tax work papers? Ours has an easy upload link to turbo tax but obviously just does the w2 calcs.

speaking of taxes, I went to an accountant on March 7th. Dropped off my paperwork and he said he’d have it a week after. It’s 4/15 and I call once a week and
his secretary says he’ll email me something. He never has and I’m getting frustrated! WWYD? I have half a mind to pick up my folder and go elsewhere. My stuff is not complicated. Well 2019 isn't. I need a 2018 redo.

I got my stimulus check but that doesn’t mean anything. Along with my surprise medical bills I also woke up with my furnace shutting down on me. It was 57 and only blowing cold air. Someone’s here now to look at it. $$$

ei34 · April 2020

How sad @climbingwife I'm sorry to hear- it's so hard not being able to do what you'd normally do. This all sucks.
Our stimulus checks hit too. We're just stowing them in savings, we don't want to touch them until the pandemic ends and we're both still gainfully employed

charlotte989875 · April 2020

CharmedPam said:

@climbingwife, so sorry to hear that. It’s awful, and yeah, sucks that you can’t physically be there.
@charlotte989875 happy you have a yoga buddy!
@MissKittyDanger, your work does them? That’s amazing! Like pull in all your tax work papers? Ours has an easy upload link to turbo tax but obviously just does the w2 calcs.

speaking of taxes, I went to an accountant on March 7th. Dropped off my paperwork and he said he’d have it a week after. It’s 4/15 and I call once a week and
his secretary says he’ll email me something. He never has and I’m getting frustrated! WWYD? I have half a mind to pick up my folder and go elsewhere. My stuff is not complicated. Well 2019 isn't. I need a 2018 redo.

I got my stimulus check but that doesn’t mean anything. Along with my surprise medical bills I also woke up with my furnace shutting down on me. It was 57 and only blowing cold air. Someone’s here now to look at it. $$$

No! That sucks, hopefully it’s a small, easy fix.

levioosa · April 2020

I’m so sorry @climbingwife. *hugs*

No stimulus check here yet. I didn’t even know there was a website to check on your check status. I am infuriated that people receiving a physical check will be delayed so the Cheeto can have his name printed on them.

I think we’ll hear official word about shortened work weeks and layoffs today. Unofficially they were supposed to start next week. Every day is just so tense. Other than that, SSDD. I made a fantastic penne a la vodka with shrimp and it’s taking a lot of willpower not to just eat all of it at once. We’ll try to be responsible with the leftovers tonight. Lol.

MissKittyDanger · April 2020

@CharmedPam With what we do, we have to do taxes for some of our clients so our tax department offers to do ours and our spouse's taxes

it saves us a lot of time lol I did turbo tax last year, which is fine but costs. Ours is free

short+sassy · April 2020

mrsconn23 said:

Oh no @climbingwife I'm so sorry. That's awful.

Happy meetaversary @MNNEBride

We haven't gotten our check. The stimulus link is live, but I go to check my status and it tells me it can't find my payment status. I double checked our 2018 filing, because I haven't gotten to 2019 yet, and we definitely were well, well below the AGI threshold. Not shocked, considering our gov't. But how fucking annoying.

To add another layer of fuckery, they deducted pretty much everyone's benefits twice from Friday's check. My check is only short by $100 or so, but I can't imagine what could have been taken out of people's checks who pay for higher priced benefits.

We finally put DefConn's desk in my office. He's coming in more often to bother me. LMAO

SSDD for the most part.

I read that people who have already filed for both 2018 and 2019 are the ones most likely to get the stimulus money the soonest. But, who knows. I didn't get mine either, but I just filed for 2019 on Sat.

kerbohl · April 2020

I'm so sorry to hear that @climbingwife. This is such a hard time to not be able to comfort people who are hurting when this is when they often need the comfort of friends the most. I hope your friend is okay.

@CharmedPam Think warm thoughts! Hopefully it's a quick fix and your house is toasty warm later today!

Snow flurries here today, which is annoying. I know that it is Canada and I should always expect more snow until May rolls around, but I'd just like some sunshine at this point and no more cold nights. I took the heater out of my rabbit's pen last week, and I think they are a little pissed at me this week because of it. I brought my one boy in last night to sit on the couch with us and he snuggled as tight as he could into my husband - it was adorable.

My dog is going stir crazy, so I think I will have to brace against the cold and take her for a walk later today, regardless of how I feel about the weather. At least there will be less people out and about, so we'll probably have the streets to ourselves.

mrsconn23 · April 2020

So, I have amazing friends.

Last week when mom was really not doing great, I was of course out of my head with worry and frustrated and sad with how helpless I felt. For some reason, I decided I needed to find a bottle of mom's favorite bourbon, Eagle Rare to have for myself (and of course to share with friends and family). Mom and dad only have a couple bottles, so I wanted 'back-up', just to have because you know... The problem with this is that it's hard to find in the first place and the distillery has now switched to making hand sanitizer.

After looking locally myself, I reached out to a friend in KY to see if she could find it around her since she's close to the distillery. She didn't have any leads, but she found a locator and there was a bottle at Target by one of my BFF's. So I hit her up to just look for me and snag it if it was there. She struck out, but she has a friend who's husband is a regional manager for a liquor store chain. She said she was going to reach out to her.

In the meantime, our friend who lives in OK is a director of sales for a liquor distributor. I hit them up and asked if they had any leads on a bottle. He doesn't distribute it, but said he'd see what he could do. They texted me back shortly and they'd found it locally. I was like, 'great, what do I owe you?' They said just our address.

My BFF just texted me and said her friend's husband also found a bottle and it's being 'donated' to me by the liquor chain under the circumstances. I'm a regular customer of this liquor store (ha, that sounds bad...but you know, they're the one in town that I shop) and they've been amazing and easy to deal with in the past (like when we needed a keg for mom's bday last year). But now, I am definitely a customer for life.

I can't even, y'all.

climbingsingle · April 2020

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

@CharmedPam I hope your furnace is fixed soon, and it's not to much damage to your wallet! What sucky timing.

@mrsconn23 that's so sweet.

short+sassy · April 2020

@climbingwife, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's dad. It is extra sad times when we can't even comfort our friends and family.

@MyNameIsNot, it is oddly chilly for mid-April down here. We put our heater on a little last night and this morning. Alas, I don't know much about fireplaces or doing a conversion. But if you all want something fairly cheap ($142) to get by until Fall, I highly recommend this wall room heater:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AHOA6M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

We have a rental that does not have any heat going to two of the bedrooms. We put one of those in each room and crossed our fingers, lol. That tenant went through most of the winter with them and said they were great. She said they kept the whole room as warm as they wanted it with no problems. You can also find electric baseboard heaters on Amazon that are even cheaper and I think they just plug into a socket. It was something else we looked at and there were a lot good reviews, but I don't have personal experience.

@CharmedPam, speaking of heating, good luck with your service call! I hope it's something cheap to fix.

I've had my own home problems. Our washing machine died a couple days ago. So now we need to figure that out. Of course, it's never a good time. But it really, really isn't, lol. Especially considering that we usually buy used appliances and that is certainly more problematic right now.

Edited to add: I forgot the update on my cruise.

I rebooked it for almost the exact same dates...except next year. It was originally going to be leaving on May 10th. My cruise next year leaves on May 9th, lol.

There were at least some silver linings. My original cruise gift certificate included ONE item I could chose from their "Free for All" list of goodies. But they were having a special that also applied to rebooking! And now I got ALL the goodies on the list. Free drinks, Free WIFI, free upgraded dining, and $50 toward EVERY shore excursion.

I was also given a bonus $75 in cruise credits to use on the ship.

CharmedPam · April 2020

@mrsconn23! That’s amazing. And man you have connections. Even your connections have connections. Lol
@short+sassy oh yeah, it’s never a good time for anything to break. Right now is worse for you with your PT jobs on hold!

service guy left, and it was a fairly easy and decently priced fix. The guy was great and even told me my hot water heater should be replaced soon. Not right away, but something to think about. I thought the heads up was nice. So right now my temps are slowly climbing back up again! I couldn’t work out this morning. I get SO bad when it comes to being cold that I just stayed in bed. I’ll workout later tonight.

kerbohl · April 2020

@short+sassy Oh no! Is your washing machine completely dead, or can it be fixed with a part? I had the motor go on mine a few years ago, and just needed to replace the motor. But what bad timing for it to go down! Hopefully you don't have to resort to handwashing whole loads of laundry - shudder.

short+sassy · April 2020

kerbohl said:

@short+sassy Oh no! Is your washing machine completely dead, or can it be fixed with a part? I had the motor go on mine a few years ago, and just needed to replace the motor. But what bad timing for it to go down! Hopefully you don't have to resort to handwashing whole loads of laundry - shudder.

My H is pretty handy and has often been able to fix appliances at our rentals. But, unfortunately, not this time. Our house is a duplex and our next-door tenant usually runs that side as an AirBnB. Of course, all his reservations through May have been cancelled. We asked him if we could use the washer on that side, in the meantime. He told us that was fine. He stays there sometimes also so, for social distancing sake, we don't want that situation to go on for too long. We won't be there when he is and we'll wear gloves when we are. Still, we don't want to take advantage for too long, but it will at least buy us some extra time.

MyNameIsNot · April 2020

short+sassy said:

@climbingwife, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend's dad. It is extra sad times when we can't even comfort our friends and family.

@MyNameIsNot, it is oddly chilly for mid-April down here. We put our heater on a little last night and this morning. Alas, I don't know much about fireplaces or doing a conversion. But if you all want something fairly cheap ($142) to get by until Fall, I highly recommend this wall room heater:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AHOA6M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

We have a rental that does not have any heat going to two of the bedrooms. We put one of those in each room and crossed our fingers, lol. That tenant went through most of the winter with them and said they were great. She said they kept the whole room as warm as they wanted it with no problems. You can also find electric baseboard heaters on Amazon that are even cheaper and I think they just plug into a socket. It was something else we looked at and there were a lot good reviews, but I don't have personal experience.

@CharmedPam, speaking of heating, good luck with your service call! I hope it's something cheap to fix.

I've had my own home problems. Our washing machine died a couple days ago. So now we need to figure that out. Of course, it's never a good time. But it really, really isn't, lol. Especially considering that we usually buy used appliances and that is certainly more problematic right now.

Edited to add: I forgot the update on my cruise.

I rebooked it for almost the exact same dates...except next year. It was originally going to be leaving on May 10th. My cruise next year leaves on May 9th, lol.

There were at least some silver linings. My original cruise gift certificate included ONE item I could chose from their "Free for All" list of goodies. But they were having a special that also applied to rebooking! And now I got ALL the goodies on the list. Free drinks, Free WIFI, free upgraded dining, and $50 toward EVERY shore excursion.

I was also given a bonus $75 in cruise credits to use on the ship.

I mean, I feel like a baby for complaining about lows in the 40's when people are in the snow! We'll be ok without the fireplace; I just like it, but I could turn the heat back on or get a blanket.

If you decide to go new on the washer, it might actually be a good time to get a deal. Lowe's and HD are sending coupons and deals all over the place. Hopefully they will run an appliance sale soon.

ei34 · April 2020

Glad it was resolved @CharmedPam ! @mrsconn23 that's so sweet (and I'm intrigued that Target by you sells bourbon!)

OliveOilsMom · April 2020

Climbing - I'm sorry for your loss. It's so extra tough when you can't hug or even see people you want to provide comfort for.

MrsConn - That's so nice of all those people to help you that way!

Charmed - Glad it was a quick fix!

MNNE - Happy Meetiversary!

We got our stimulus money today too. We filed our Fed taxes in Feb, we are still waiting for our state tax return money to come in, but we didn't file that until COVID was ramping up here and the state was starting to shut down. So our filing may just be sitting in a mail bin somewhere. We have to pay to efile the state return, so I'm cheap and just print out the pages from Turbo Tax and mail them in. We got our Fed money a while ago now.

For those that don't know, the stimulus money is supposed to just be a credit on your return for next year. That is how it is written into the stimulus bill. Recently, I saw something that said the stimulus money won't be treated as a credit to next year anymore. But I don't know how that can be, if its written into the law that its just a credit for next year. So just beware on this!!!

It's pretty cold in our house today - 60. But we are trying to keep the heat off. My hands are getting cold, so we might need to run a few cycles and then shut it back off! DD is being pretty crazy today and I need strength to deal with her! Overall, we have had more good days than bad, and with a 3 year old, we need to be thankful for the good days!

mrsconn23 · April 2020

ei34 said:

Glad it was resolved @CharmedPam ! @mrsconn23 that's so sweet (and I'm intrigued that Target by you sells bourbon!)

All our Super Targets have set up basically a spirits store inside of the actual store. It's usually at the front. They even have a register set up inside it.

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