General Discussions

**skyhawk133** · 12-29-2006, 02:32 PM

What are you spending those extra dollars on before Jan 1? I decided to treat myself to a couple new LCD monitors and a new desktop for my home office.

**jchen** · 12-29-2006, 04:22 PM

Hmm.. nothing really i cant afford anything after christmas :P

**jakerz** · 12-29-2006, 04:56 PM

Yea I've never heard of people spending thier money before New Years just to do it for no reason

**skyhawk133** · 12-29-2006, 05:12 PM

I would certainly hope you have a reason.

I've also been doing a bunch of ad spending. Doing some 3-month up front type contracts and such. In the big scheme of things it works itself out, but I'd rather owe as little as possible.

**Hobbit** · 12-30-2006, 04:43 PM

*pretends this is before Christmas* I bought a condenser mic for who knows what reason.

**Josh P** · 12-30-2006, 05:22 PM

I can see buying a work related something for a wright off... but if you're going to donate to an NPO just for the write off (and that's the only reason you're doing it) you'd be better of just keeping the money.... hmm, take $500 of you're taxable income, or just keep $500... you'll get a lot more money saved by not spending the $500... I've never understood this.

**skyhawk133** · 12-30-2006, 05:46 PM

Hmmmm, I guess I thought this was a much more widespread practice.

Why let the government take 30% of your money when you could spend 100% of it and actually get something in return?

I ended up getting the desktop computer and 2 LCD's to replace my 2001 1.3Ghz desktop and 2 19" CRTs. 20 blog posts on PayPerPost. 3 months of advertising on various web sites. And I refilled my enom account.

Maybe it's just the way I think. I figure if I have $3000 and spend $1000 of it. It's better than giving $1000 of it away to the IRS and then trying to recoup that $1000 over the next few months. *shrugs* At the end of the day, it's really no different I guess.

*Not talking about NPOs.

**Guaner** · 01-03-2007, 11:12 AM

Big brother is watching.........

**Nick204k** · 01-04-2007, 09:45 AM

i hate taxes haha