Congratulations, y’all – we have successfully survived another transition to daylight savings time! We may be sleepy, but we made it. Personally, I love daylight savings time. I’m all about the longer days and extra sunshine. However, losing that hour of sleep sucks. At least the time on my my alarm clock automatically resets. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m lucky it did. I have a new alarm clock that I’ve only been using for a couple of months and I didn’t even give it a thought when I went to bed last night and didn’t set a back-up alarm on my phone. Fortunately, my clock did reset, my alarm went off as it should have, and I made it to church on time. Of course, I was patting myself on the back earlier for having reset the other random clocks in the house when I realized I haven’t reset the one in my car. Oh, well. I’ll get to it eventually. (Changing the time on a couple of our vehicles was so unnecessarily complex, we just didn’t bother.)
Now to enjoy the next eight months before we fall back to shorter days and longer nights.
When Kenn and I married, I asked him when his various bills were due. He replied, “I just pay everything at the end of the month.” Yeah, that’s not how due dates work. So, I took over the finances and almost thirty-nine years later, I’m still the money lady. Sadly, part of handling the finances is taking care of the income taxes. I still remember the days of doing the taxes manually and pulling my hair out over the insanely complicated formulas for determining various entries. Who even came up with these ridiculous computations? I am extremely thankful that there is now software that makes completing income taxes relatively pain free. Now, if we could just not owe the federal government every year.🙄 At least we usually get some sort of refund back from the state to offset a little of the pain of what we owe. Even better, I don’t have to deal with this again for a year!🙌
So, daylight savings time: love it or hate it? Income taxes: do you do them yourself or use a tax preparation service?
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Randy did them for years, now we take it all to a great company who whip it out in no time, and give awesome advice. DST is a two-edged sword. I don’t really need an extra hour of daylight in summer as there is plenty then, and I don’t want to come in and prepare dinner at 8 or 9 pm. On the other hand, I despise it getting dark at 4 or 4:30 in the winter, especially when I was still working. It does not matter anyway, as I have zip control over it, so I just roll with it whichever it is.
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It takes me a couple of weeks to stop being cranky when we go back to the shorter days.🤣
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Lately, everything takes me a few days to stop being cranky.
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I hate DST with a passion. It took every ounce of strength not to write a blog post bashing it (been there, done that plenty of times in the past).
Tara is also the money lady and handles our taxes. Thank goodness; that was always one chore I loathed.
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You are the second person I know who hates DST. 🤯
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I still have to organize my 2024 paperwork for my accountant. It only takes about an hour, so why do I procrastinate?!
I would have to read the arguments for and against DST. I don’t like the time changes, but I also don’t like the idea of “winter hours” all year long. I like sunshine extending into the evening. But I won’t take a stand until I hear both sides.
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Several years ago, we moved my parents into the house across the street from us. Mama always filed for an extension on their taxes just because she hated getting the paperwork together. Since I took over doing their taxes at that time, I told her I would file for an extension that year, but not again. She was a little shocked, but I told her she was retired, so she had no excuses for not getting things together on time.🤣 Ah, the joys of parenting your parents.
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I have used the same tax prep service since the first year I worked (1973). My parents had it done along with theirs and I just continued – now it is the original CPA’s daughter and his son-in-law (whom I use as he’s cheaper as he’s a certified prep, not a CPA). In 2024 I went paperless for everything, so he will be in for a surprise when everything but a few docs are on the flash drive. I have just dropped off the paperwork for years, then he calls me when it’s done.
Before I retired last year, I hated any time change, but that was because like now it is darker in the morning again and I would have had a longer walk with no change to DST, but then had to leave later, so a shorter walk for me before I came home to start work at 11:30 a.m. Once I am home from walking and/or errands, I am usually in for the day, so the longer daylight doesn’t really benefit me.
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HATE DST with the intensity of a thousand white hot suns. It is not normal to get up at 4 AM.
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We have used a tax preparer for years. Two years ago I thought I would do my own using Turbo Tax. Both my kids use it and love it, me not so much. I had to mess around taking all the pictures, still had to put everything in order and then pay to use, which was ok. However, then I had to pay to deposit and/or pay the taxes. It ended up costing as much as my tax guy and he’s easy to get ahold of should something go wrong.
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Wow. It definitely sounds like your tax guy is the better option.
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