How Could I Do This If My Wife Died?

5 posted on February 5, 2008
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This past weekend leading up to today has been crazy. It’s that time of year and we have our annual tax appointment which has got to be one of my favorite things in the whole wide world.

There’s nothing better than sifting through months of receipts, invoices and expenses to see how much we owe Uncle Sam. This year is especially crazy since I have my Freelance Design company taxes as well as my taxes from working at the church.

Thankfully my wonderful wife has been doing the brunt of the work in Quickbooks leading up to our appointment today. And by “brunt” I mean pretty much all of it. She only does it because she knows that if I were to attempt to do what she is doing my brain would short-circuit and I’d be in a rubber room sipping my food through a straw. No, seriously…I would!

She wanted to sit down with me and try to explain how she had everything organized so that if she ever died I would know where everything was.

I told her that if she died, going through tax records on Quickbooks was pretty much the last thing in the world I would want to do. I’d probably burn the house down, collect the insurance and move to the Bahamas with the kids.

Would that be wrong?

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    1 Jason said:

    Just pay your taxes before you jet and make sure you don’t use Wesley Snipes tax advisers.

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    2 Scott Magdalein said:

    Oh crap. Not looking forward to this.

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    3 chris justice said:

    WRONG-JER-29:11 you dummy…HE HAS GREATER PLANS FOR YOU THAN YOU HIDING IN THE BAHAMAS
    plus Brad-you can’t hide from Him anyway
    sometimes i do think boys are stupid



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    4 bradruggles said:

    lol…I love you Chris. I didn’t say I’d be hiding in the Bahamas. I’d probably do some…umm, missions work…or something. :-)

    Scott, You know what they say about the two things in life you can’t avoid…death and taxes.

    Jason, your advice is duly noted.

    Brad

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    5 Terrace Crawford said:

    Brad,

    Considering thats what I would do also, it CAN’T be wrong. For now, enjoy your wife’s help. :-)

    /TC/

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    6 aaron said:

    rubber room huh?

    Good job knowing where your strengths are!
    Yea, i feel about the same with our taxes.



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    7 Seth Ayers said:

    Haha so you cut your losing (29:11) and leave for the Bahamas I see how it is lol…
    btw did u get my email



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    8 Chad Fender said:

    I told my wife the same thing and she just laughed and said “Good Luck with that”



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    9 bradruggles said:

    Whew…glad to know I’m not the only one out there with this problem! Even if all of you don’t agree with my solution. :-)

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