If you have a simple tax return, you can file for free at TurboTax and H&R Block. The IRS also has a list of places where you can file for free and free online forms that do basic calculations for you. You still have to pay to do the state return.
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Unitasker Wednesday: Cat wigs
The purchase of a wig for an animal has little to do with the cat and everything to do with the owner.
Creating a minimalist workspace — from Zen Habits
Tips for creating a minimalist workspace by ZenHabits.net editor Leo Babauta.
Neat freak or just an unclutterer?
This article has been requested by a small army of readers. For many of you, this article won’t apply much at all - for a few of you, hopefully this article will prove quite useful.
This is the third of a five-part series about the “stages” of personal finance. In the first part I described the zeroth stage of money management, in which I was fumbling in the dark, spending compulsively and accumulating debt. Last week I described the first stage, in which I finally saw the light and began to repay my debt. Today I share what happened next.
Hot on the heels of my NomaDesk review, I had requests to review Dropbox as an alternate way to store and share files online. So come along as we delve the deep dark Dropbox, and I’ll promise to stop with the alliteration.
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Albert of UrbanMonk.Net.
Have you ever sat down and thought, “What is my purpose in life? What is my passion? Where do I go from here?”
Every month, I spend some time on a personal finance statement. I’m careful to include the current balances on all of my debts and assets, then I add up the assets, subtract the debts off the top, and wind up with a number that, in one single value, represents my financial standing in the world.
My 2009 new year’s resolution is to get e-mail under control, and right now I’m failing. With the deadline for my book quickly approaching, my e-mail inbox is over-flowing with messages I haven’t responded to. I didn’t have a strong enough system in place yet to handle everything, and now my inbox situation is out of control. Maybe by May I’ll have things organized.
I called my little brother yesterday. He lost his home to foreclosure last fall, and things have only continued to get worse. He and his wife are doing the best they can, but they feel overwhelmed.
It’s spring break time, and Kate and I are taking a much needed vacation for the next week. As you read this, we’re at an undisclosed location without our computers or the internet. I plan on reading two books several Art of Manliness readers have suggested in emails to me: The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour.
Confidentiality sounds like it really ought to be more of an issues for doctors or lawyers, rather than freelancers. But sooner or later, most freelancers wind up with a client who wants them to sign a non-disclosure agreement or otherwise guarantee confidentiality for a project.
Article by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead; follow him on twitter.
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
