This stay at home time is a good opportunity to do important but easy to overlook things like confirming insurance coverages, reviewing wills, cleaning out old tax return documents, etc. Kathy & I have been doing that in earnest, and it’s amazing how much stuff can accumulate. And it’s interesting to see how much things have changed, even when you don’t think they have changed!
Public service announcement: The IRS has established a website (all the search engines know where it is) that you can use to find the status of your stimulus check (aka Trump Dividend). In typical government fashion, the website says that if you have filed a tax return in the last two years and have provided your banking information that you will receive your payment electronically. Of course, it takes a while to get to the page where you can check, and once I got there it told me that they didn’t have my information, even though they took my payment just yesterday! I read elsewhere that if you had only owed tax and haven’t gotten a refund they couldn’t use your info, but if you had gotten a refund they could. We’ve done both but they still didn’t have it, so that information may be false. I entered my information yesterday and this morning it says they have it, that my check will be sent electronically and that the page will be updated with a status once it has been scheduled. So check it out. We might as well get our dough sooner rather than later, and I don’t really need King Donald’s autograph on a check! 😉
I was quite shocked to see my Trump Dividend was in my bank yesterday morning. I moved it saving immediately in case he changed his mind, as he’s done that multiple times.
Like you I have done some good cleaning and sorting. Things around the condo are looking different, and I like the change. I believe there is a subtle change occurring within me also. I don’t really want things to be like they were before but am hoping this will change me as well as others and I really can’t explain that change. It may have already have happened.
Last evening, long I after I posted, I read an article that said that the glitch had something to do with using a third party (TurboTax and others) for filing tax returns. The example they used still didn’t apply to my situation, but it made some sense.
I like to keep several projects going at once, much to Kathy’s chagrin. I have a pretty long list but manage to do little bits here and there. I really need to spend some time in the garage, but that is out of sight and out of mind, for the most part!
We have been “downsizing our stuff” for a number of years, to the point where now there isn’t a lot of unnecessary stuff to get rid of unless we’re going to live on a boat or in an RV, neither of which is likely to happen…. But there is always something.