No April Fools Day posts, I swear!
Escape Brooklyn has a write up of a recent Bust magazine piece of the importance of an FU Fund for women. God bless the FU Fund. Money can't buy sanity but it can get awfully damn close. I didn't have a term for it at the time, but I cashed in an FU fund when breaking up with a slackass boyfriend years ago. After we broke up, he owed me about $300 (a whole lot, considering that I was in school and that was one-third of my monthly income from my two jobs). Phone bills, his share of counseling sessions, stupidly large library fines on my card... He kept promising to pay but never did; instead when I would call him to ask him when the check was coming our conversations would turn into head games. He obviously wasn't good for the money, and I decided to eat his share so I didn't have to talk to him or deal with his fuckedupness anymore. He was $300 richer (except not really, since he was unemployed and flat broke), but got to cut him out of my life for good, which was truly priceless.
The Consumerist reports that H&R Block doesn't "support" Connecticut same sex civil unions. Apparently civilly unioned tax filers are just too gay? Verdict: Bite me, H&R Block. Like doing your taxes doesn't suck enough.
Good hair comes to those who pay. So how much does it take a woman to keep her coiffure prettily coiffed?
MSN Money revisits the trope of the woman who is just too smart for her own good. And the NYT, in an article not about finances but about marriage counseling, contains an anecdote about one couple whose financial arguments were exacerbated when the woman received a promotion that made her the primary earner, leaving her husband resentful. Six years of counseling later (please tell me there were more issues), he is proud of her success.
On a personal note, I mailed my taxes yesterday. I'll get a lot of money back, but less than last year, which was the goal. Damn, those withholding calculators are uncooperative. On the upside, my tax refund will cover my recent furniture purchase (to be delivered tomorow! Huzzah!) and leave about $1,200 left over for savings.
4.01.2008
Quick Hits Tuesday 1 April 2008
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argh! the withholding calculator! i can never get them to work right (and now that it's back up on the IRS site, it's less helpful than ever), so i just err on the side of getting some back. yes, it's a "free loan to the government," but it also makes tax time have a little incentive push that i enjoy. plus, the extra $5 or so on my paycheck would go unnoticed and get frittered away; in a lump sum, i can actually use it for something (like new furniture!!). thanks for posting so often - i really enjoy your pieces and the, err, proper slanting (i mean, really, you're hip enough to link to a link to BUST... i heart you already).
Hi FF! I found your blog via Feministing and am so glad I did.
I also love that you mention the FU Fund! BUST is fantastic and they publish great articles. I did notice that the author's name is missing -- the article was written by Tara Bracco, a friend of mine and keen thinker about money.
Just wanted to show some love for the writers featured in BUST!
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