Category Archives: Money Stuff

2008 Tax Time: Amending my 2007 return with Form 1040X

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Andrew

Posted the other day about the Saver’s Credit which caused me to do a quick return review. Turns out I didn’t report my Roth IRA contributions on Form 8880 on last year’s return. My 457 contributions were on there, but … Continue reading →

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Did things get as bad as I thought?

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Andrew

Back in August of 2007 I wrote this post, Someone forgot to refill the Real Estate ATM, and predicted that we would see a continued drop in prices, foreclosures would go up and so on. What I didn’t see coming … Continue reading →

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My comment on a post about checkbook balancing

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Andrew

I left this comment on the Your Money Relationship site in response to this post and the Mrs. A comments, Do You Still Balance Your Checkbook? I Sure Don’t I’m one of the “young’uns” Mrs. A is referring to. I was … Continue reading →

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Tax Time 2008: Retirement Savings Contributions Credit and IRAs

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Andrew

Now that we’re in 2009, it’s not a bad idea to start thinking about 2008 taxes. I don’t expect anything to be drastically different this year, but there are a few things I’m going to be looking at this year. … Continue reading →

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EPIC WAMU FAIL

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Andrew

Washington Mutual’s fall was quick and painful. The bank’s stock was down like 95% with a market cap of $2 billion and a couple hundred billion in outstanding loans so there’s no surprise they failed. What does surprise me is … Continue reading →

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