Sunday, September 13, 2009

TAX breaks 101

tax break #1

Get married. I discovered filing jointly garners a larger return. Who knew...

tax break #2

Buy a house. As much as compound interest sucks, and seeing the amortization schedule of our house payments over the next 30 years and realizing that our home is actually costing us an exorbitant amount more than sticker price, the concept of 'tax deductible mortgage interest' is but small consolation.

tax break #3

We're only 34 weeks and 3 days away from this one (according to my iPhone pregnancy tracker). If its a boy, i like Simon, but Erin likes Theodore. Theodore?! I refuse to give my son a name that invariably turns out shortened, revised, and changed to 'TED'. No way.
-k

3 comments:

  1. Ummm how about you have triplets and name one son Simon and one son Theodore and another son Alvin!! That would be soooooooo cool!!!

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  2. How dare you...i thought i warned you not to do it. oh well, whats done is done i guess. and I do have to say it's not all bad...well pregnancy is all bad, but not the baby. congratulations!!! oh, and i can't beleive you didn't call me. next time it will be your head:) love you guys

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  3. you used alot of big words in this post...kinda over my head...stupid grown-up stuff... Oh and everyone knows you're supposed to put pictures in your blog for those of us who don't like to read!

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