The Money Grand Finale!

The Money Grand Finale!

I feel like I’m supposed to come to some big conclusion after all this investigation into money themes. But I don’t have one. Maybe the point was the process. Maybe it would be more worthwhile to compare where I am now to where I was back in November, when this series...
How the Rich Unjustly Get Richer

How the Rich Unjustly Get Richer

There’s one last money secret to share before we wrap up the money theme. This secret is in the present. We know the US tax system is inequitable, unfair, unjust. We know that when Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett and those other billionaires turn in their 1040s to the...
Mom, Her Mind, and Taxes

Mom, Her Mind, and Taxes

6 March 2022 I need to bring black and blue pens and my composition notebook. And something that feels comforting, not my weighted blanket because it is too big and too heavy. Maybe Lambie. (Don’t laugh, please.) And the file folder labeled “Mom,” now so big I...
Money in Relationships

Money in Relationships

Some money lessons have come closer to home. The kitchen for the first and the living room for the second. When I was in high school, my mother, in the kitchen, initiated a negotiation with my father during one of those rare evenings when he was home. She didn’t...
Taxes and the Land in Kentucky

Taxes and the Land in Kentucky

I’ve been pricing the cost of improvements to the land in Kentucky. As part of that, I needed to understand the tax implications of anything I might do, so I called the assessor’s office. The clerk let me know that building any structure, even if it was just a little...
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