Insights from Organized Instincts
Embrace Making Tax Payments Online – Paying Federal and State Electronically
Whether or not your tax return is ready to file, the IRS deadline of April 18th, 2022 is fast approaching. With only a few weeks to spare, even if you file your taxes today, the best thing to do is pay any Federal or state taxes you owe directly online. We believe...
Keeping Secrets From Your CPA Can Cost You A Bundle
When it comes to finances, we might not always go out of our way to tell our CPA when we make big financial decisions. Sometimes it just doesn’t occur to us that the right hand really does need to know what the left hand is doing. But how do you know what things you...
Embracing March Madness
It’s March and you know what that means. The madness has begun. That’s right, March Madness is here. Are we just talking about basketball? No, we are all talking tax season! Avoid shooting granny shots or air balls, and enduring the ridicule of your best friend by...
Getting Older Has Its Perks
As a rule, we don’t like to think about aging. But getting older has its perks, especially with regards to your finances. In fact, the older you get the better your perks. Let’s take a look at some of these benefits you’ll be able to look forward to, and take...
Keeping Tabs on Sneaky Membership and Subscription Fees
Memberships are good things. They allow us to be part of exclusive clubs, carry exclusive credit cards, and partake of limited deals. Subscriptions are also good things, providing individuals with a service or a product. Sometimes they offer coupons or perks for...
Finding Missing Money
Who doesn’t like finding missing money? If you’ve been around the block a few times, chances are you might have a sum of money trying to find you. Perhaps you moved away, started a new job, switched banks, or have forgetful family members. It might behoove you to have...
An Ounce of Tax Preparation is Worth a Pound of Taxing Headache
It’s tax season, which means it’s time to prepare your paperwork, and yourself, to pay your taxes. To help you prepare for the project ahead, we invite you to follow these techniques to help make life run a little smoother and lower stress. Preparation First,...
A Daily Money Manager’s Guide to Letting Go of Your Non-Tax Paperwork
Have you ever kept paperwork simply because you didn’t know when it was safe to throw away? Do you have a file cabinet tucked away somewhere stuffed with decades worth of receipts, bills, or tax returns? Don’t worry, we’ll help you climb out from underneath that paper...
Four Steps to Stopping Junk Mail in Its Tracks
Junk mail doesn’t only come in your inbox; it comes in your mailbox too. Your mailbox can become overstuffed with unwanted junk, from political solicitations to charitable donation requests and from catalogs to local store coupons. There are ways to cut back on this...
Stop Junk Mail in 5 Easy Steps in Just 10 Minutes
Most of us have tolerated annoying junk mail for far too long, so our coping strategies include ignoring it, tossing it into the trash, or sending it to the spam folder. It doesn’t have to be this way. There’s no better time to stop tolerating and ignoring these...