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insanity while doing taxes, I am convinced! I had to dig through piles of paperwork to find my daughter's SSN. Then when I found that, I had to continue to dig to find my son's SSN! I thought I had it all organized, but I was quite far from it. My tax-time resolution is to get this mess in shape!

I saw this awesome cascading letter file tote at the Container Store. It's on sale for $9.99, but it's backordered. Can you still order something when it's backordered? I'm not sure, but this would be perfect for filing all my millions of receipts, since I am sef-employed and have to write as much off as possible so I don't end up owing fortunes. (I don't know how that's possible, I don't make a fortune, but my tax liability seems like a fortune!)

Of course, if you're going to have such a sexy file tote hanging on your wall, you're going to need some hawt folders to go in them.

Perhaps you have way more stuff to file than that. In that case, you might want to get a nifty new filing cabinet, like this one at Target. In addition to the fun blue color, you can get it in boring black, sexy silver, gag-me gray, and blarrrgh beech.

How did your tax prep go? Was it a nightmare, or are you super organized?

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April 16, 2007

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newscoma

April 17, 2007

Nightmare.

The end.

(and a messy desk is a sign of a super, creative, sexy cool woman.

That would be me and you.

bruno

April 16, 2007

I had a giant folder of receipts that were in no particular order, and sorting through them made me realize that it's much easier to keep track of things as you go. Next year, I won't wait till the last minute to get all my tax docs in order.