Showing posts with label taxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxes. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

10-4(0) over and out!

Like every other good American, I am getting ready to file my income tax return. Of course before I can send it to the accountant to figure out, I have to do all the grunt work of going through the receipts etc to determine our deductions.

Because of Maggie's extreme medical situation, the medical decuctions are always the biggest part of everything. I generally keep every receipt throw it in a file and this time every year I regret not being more organized. I know there are better and neater ways to do this, but I'm still patting myself on the back for saving stuff.

Right now there are piles all over the dining room. I have the doctors and hosptials separated from the dentists and supplies. Once everything is separated, I make an excel spread sheet so that it makes sense to someone other than me.  If the spreadhseet is set up right, I can input the stuff easily into the accountant's form.

The single biggest pile is from Walgreens Drug Store. Maggie has a lot of prescriptions - I mean a LOT. I counted 166 prescription receipts, and a ton of others for supplies. I'll bet 162/166 of those are Maggie's. The rest of us might have the occasional prescription, but nothing ongoing.  I am also willing to bet there are other receipts in bags and pockets that never made it to my high tech filing system.

I can show you the Walgreens' pile because it's by itself on a sideboard. I can't possibly capture the rest of the medical and charitable stuff spread out all over the table. This doesn't even include most of the supplies which are delivered by other companies.

Don't be jealous.

 Oh and don't drop by for the next day or so either.