Sometimes it's Good to Be Wrong

[livingdeb]

I entered all my tax information into Turbo Tax today, mostly to check my math and file my taxes electronically, and I discovered that I was wrong about not being able to add the taxes I paid when I bought my car to the government's estimate of my other sales taxes. Although you are no longer allowed to add the tax for a new car to one line on the tax form (which I think is not subject to a cap) you are allowed to add it (and taxes for a few specific other purchases) to the government's estimate.

I don't like to be wrong. (Because what happened? I read over and over about the new-car tax thing but didn't apparently didn't bother to read the entire section on the directions for the sales tax part of the tax return. Weird!) But it's nice, on occasions when I am wrong, to actually find out (so I can be wrong less often in the future), especially when it means I get more money. Yea!

YouTube Video of the Day - "Simple life Manhattan: a 90-square-foot microstudio" - About someone who lives one block from Central Park in New York for just over $700/month. How? By living in a place that's 90 square feet. The great thing about this video is you get an idea of what it's actually like, and how she does it. She tells it like it is, the good and the bad. It's not gorgeous like things from Apartment Therapy, but it looks quite usable and definitely has some pretty bits here and there (she has a picture over her desk and a cool very short, very wide picture over her bed).

For more information, check out my source: The Tiny Life's Living Small in the Big City. She's got the video plus a link to an interview she did earlier with the same person (as well as another person in larger digs nearby: a place with 105 square feet). And there's more in another link from there.

Comments

[texpenguin.livejournal.com]

Hey, with that extra money you're getting back from the IRS, you could rent a closet in Manhattan for a few days! It's beyond crazy that you can take what was obviously a maintenance closet, add a toilet, and charge $700/month for it. I guess I've been in Texas too long--I need my space!

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Hey, they also added a sink to that closet! Plus it has a window!

I like space, too, and even wish we had basements here (that never leak). And our attics are very short, usually boiling hot, and have nails sticking down to stab you in the head.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't get past her standing on that chair to reach up to her stuff; it looks pretty unstable.
-sally