Boy, oh boy!  I am finally done preparing everything for the Accountant.  I just prepare what he needs, drop it off, and wait for the phone call of its completion.  Don’t shoot me for being on top of things.  I tend to want to get everything out of the way as soon as I can, every year.

My hats off to Accountants this time of year.  I seriously don’t know how you all manage to stay sane every year.  I totally don’t mind paying to have them done.  Keeping up with the latest tax laws is hard enough! 

Tallying up my expenses is a job in itself!  I have an eBay business, personal and a website business to tally and keep organized all year.  It takes me a couple days to get everything organized.  Not too bad, as long as I can keep up with it all year.  This year I was especially careful due to our baby arrival next month!  I didn’t want to get caught going into labor with the taxes not complete before the April deadline! 

One thing I am going to do different this year with my receipts is get an alphabetical acordian file.  I have noticed that I’ll print a receipt out from the computer, and then when I get the package in the mail it will also have a receipt.  It’s such a waist of time to find both and staple them together – so I’m going to file them starting this year.  That way it will be right in the appropriate letter when I get everything and I can staple it together right away and not worry about a duplicate total in my figures.

In any event, good luck this year with your taxes!