Doing taxes = Stupid Annoying!!
Don't get me wrong, seeing that number of money at the end was great. The process leading up to it definitely goes under the bane of my existence.
This was my first year filing them for myself. My mom, the brilliant CPA she is, always did them for me in the bast. Even though she did say she would do them this year too, I decided I should do them myself. You have to man up and learn one day.
So I went to the internet and TurboTax.
Signing up was free which was great! I did the free edition since I'm still a student.
It was annoying as all get out to gather all the paper work necessary to file taxes. W2. 1098. For me, being the anti-confrontational girl I am, I had to man up. I had a job and school I'd left to get information from. I did not want to have to talk or go down there.
All I can say is praise jesus that the job had electronic requests and I had saved all my financial paperwork from school.
Oh! I forgot to mention, I've moved twice this year so my current job didn't have my current address! Once I got that fixed I had everything I needed to start.
Phew!
As I answered the questions and filled out the information, all I could think how glad I was to not be too much of a grown up quite yet. Some of my "simplified" questions were tricky. What if I had a dependent? Or owned a house? Or stock? I shiver at the thought of filling out those questions.
I pushed through and finally got everything filed. Just waiting for that check to come now. Although I feel like I already have it spent with the list of big girl things I have to use it to buy or pay off!!
