If you tell me the address of someplace, I'll remember the street name, but not what number it is or how many miles away. If I read how much something costs, I can never remember, especially when they put that stupid .99 at the end. JUST SAY $5 AND STOP ALL THIS $4.99 BUSINESS. I also get my millions and billions mixed up and that makes me look stupid sometimes.
I got an email the other day from my bank telling me taxes were due and I had to approve payment by some date. I thought it was December 12, because I saw a 12 on the date thing on my computer. We still haven't had the 12th, yet, in case you were wondering. At any rate, this sent me into a panic because I thought I had 5 days to cough up, uhh, some amount of money I can't remember, but I know there were 4 digits. I just payed all my bills for December so I don't exactly have 4 digits in my business account, and thinking it was the 12th, I thought I had only a couple of days to come up with it.
Did I fail to mention that this is the slowest week I've ever had at work? Someone called last minute to book a color and cut and it doubled my total for the week. That's how slow.
So I teetered on the edge of panicking all day until that client came in and wrote her check. The value of the check wasn't was relieved my panic; it was the date on top of the check. Suddenly, I had ten more days than I thought I had.
Until they resent the email this morning, letting me know I had to approve payment by the 11th. How did I ever think Wednesday was the 12th?
I'm still debating whether or not I should panic about that stupid tax bill. Next week, while not history-making slow, is still pretty slow. [prayer]Please God, all those last minute caller-inners who usually make me insane, please let them call this week.[/prayer]
So that's basically how my week is going.
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It won't help now, but perhaps you could change your mortgage to include taxes each month so you won't be hit with them all at one time. Just a thought. And I couldn't agree more with the $.99 thing. Why do retailers think labeling something $29.99 makes me feel better paying it than if they labeled it $30.00? Either way, I'm ripped off.
Oh, it's not my property taxes. That is set up to be included in my mortgage.
This is my payroll taxes. I am my own employee these days, officially speaking. It's just easier than doing quarterly estimates. My bank does payroll service pretty cheap.
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