Archive for May, 2009

Don’t Get Greedy with Business Deductions

When you have a home business, it can be really tempting to deduct things you really shouldn’t be as business expenses.  This can be really dangerous, though, because the IRS is bound to notice if you are going overboard on your business deductions — and you can get in a lot of trouble if you [...]

Cleaning Up After the Fire

One of my biggest worries in my life was that our house would burn down.  It was never a pleasant thought, but I had this nagging feeling that it would happen to me at some point in my life.  I was hoping that I was wrong, but I could just feel it in my gut.
Sadly, [...]

Dad Was Never Great at Business

My dad is a custom woodworker and has been for as long as I can remember. He makes exquisite furniture that’s uniquely designed and beautiful to look at. He probably could have made a fortune at this work over the years if it weren’t for one sad thing - he’s just not very good at [...]

Finding the Right Frame

The diploma framing at my local framing store was very reasonable.  Sometimes framing services can be very expensive, so it was nice to find a place that was offering a good price for my university diploma.  The framing store had the advantage of being near a local mall and near the local university, so it [...]

Tips for Shortening your To Do List

Do you start each day with a To Do list that feels a mile long? Do you always feel defeated because you never accomplished everything on the list? You should probably shorten your To Do list.
The first thing you should do to shorten your list is to make a To Do list template for everything [...]