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April 15th is coming up fast. If you haven’t filed your tax return yet, you’re in luck. I have been offered 2 FREE Prepaid Access Cards for TurboTax Premier Online, which includes Free Federal + State Preparation + e-File, an $85 value to give away to 2 lucky readers.

While going through my piles of unopened mail (mostly bills) the other day, I decided I’d had enough and finally took the plunge into the world of Paperless Billing and Statements. Even though I’ve been fully online – shopping, selling, socializing, banking and bill paying – for years now, for some reason, I’d always felt [...]

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When you purchase food, you are paying not only for the part of the product you intend to eat but also for the packaging, the bags, wrappers, and boxes which usually go straight in the trash. While plastic wrap and bags have little use beyond stuffing them full of trash, cardboard food cartons have a [...]

A few months ago, I received a letter from our ISP Charter Communications. The good news was that everyone in our area who subscribes to their High Speed Internet was getting upgraded to the 5 Meg service and we would be surfing [I forget how many] times faster than dial-up. The bad news was that [...]

Expansion difficulty/complexity level: Medium-Easy
This is a fairly easy Monopoly game expansion to teach youngsters the principles of filing and paying income tax. It includes an income tax form on which players keep track of income and deductions, figure and pay their income tax at the end of each circuit of the board. Players may opt [...]

How procrastination unforeseen events and delays such as power outages and technology malfunction almost got me in trouble with my tax return.