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Racking Up The OT

January 27, 2010 · By Sandy Smith

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I’m not being lax on posting again, I’m just working some serious hours on a project at work. I managed to rack up a decent 20 hours or so in OT for the past 2 weeks and will probably end up with more this week and possibly into next week as well. I know that I’m supposed to be happy about the extra money, but the idea of about 50% of that being lost to taxes really doesn’t sit well with me. I’d love someone from our government to sit with me at work until 9 o’clock at night then take a commute home for 1.5 hours for their 50% stake of my paycheck.

Racking Up The OTBut really, I’m looking forward to the OT money (when it pops up in my paycheck in about 3 weeks). It’ll go right to a credit card and will be a nicely welcomed bit of change. I’m also hoping to do my taxes this weekend (e-file of course) and have that money back at around the same time. Expect a post from me regarding taxes and such this weekend as I lumber through it. Yes, I’ll be doing my taxes myself. No, I’m not worried about it – I’ve been doing my taxes myself since I was 15.

I don’t know anyone else looking forward to tax time but I’m psyched! Can we all say, KA-CHING!

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Sandy Smith

I started this blog years ago as a way of keeping myself accountable to my own debt reduction plans. Now I'm using this site to help others get out of debt, and learn about personal finance so that they can live their best lives.

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