Tax Season is Finished

For most, tax season is over and you can breathe a sigh of relief.  For others, an extension had to be filed.  Too many things to do, not enough time, other people's schedules got in the way and a myriad of excuses or reasons why the taxes could not get filed on time.

If you are like me, filing taxes is the last thing that gets done on my schedule.  I would much rather write a blog on Active Rain than sit down for an hour or two and work on getting my tax receipts ready to be filed.  I rarely procrastinate about anything but when it comes to taxes, I have a million other things that take priority.  

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I would rather wash dishes.  I would rather iron clothes!  I would rather change a baby's diaper.  I would rather hoe weeds in the garden.  I would rather wash the car.  I would rather take out the trash.  I would rather come dust your furniture.  Anything but work on taxes!

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My receipts, file folders and boxes have been siting on the table in plain view for over a month now.  I put them in plain view so I have to walk by them several times a day, reminding me of the importance of getting this stuff done.  Yes, it is depressing.  I sit down and work a little at a time on it.  I am almost finished finally!  Only another hour or so and I will be completely done.  Yay!!

Then, I can start all over again for 2015.  Yes, that's right.  It is April 15th and I have not started the 2015 bookkeeping yet at all.  After all, taxes are my way of proscrastination.

Do you find you are in the same category as me?  Do you have other excuses, I mean reasons, not to do your tax work.  Do you wait until the last minute to do the things that should have been done months ago?  Why are taxes so hard to get done?  Why do I have this mindset about taxes when everything else in my life is so organized and completed before the deadlines?  

Taxes are my worst enemy when it comes to time management.  They have been my downfall forever.  This year I will overcome!  2015 will be different.  I will keep telling myself this.  Hopefully, next year when I write my tax blog, I will be able to say,  "Done, before the time ran out!"

                                                    My 2015 resolution:  Get it done now!

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