April 15th Deadline

[S T]

Okay I think I have a problem here.

My husband is okay with feeling somewhat neglected during tax season, but there is this issue with laundry! Since I also do the laundry, he doesn't, all of a sudden we don't have any shorts, socks, tshirts or the normal daily wear as in Jeans etc.

I am saying I only need 3 more days, and he is saying, I HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR! Ugh!

I just replied, just hang on to your "shorts" for another day or two, and the routine will be back to normal.

So I am multi-tasking between laundry and extensionsssssssssssssssssss tonight! What Fun!

Just thought I would share.

Sandy

[DTS]

Sandy

Your hubby is just wanting you to adhere to the agreement you made together!

[WhiteOleander]

Just go buy more. And since it is an ordinary and necessary expense to earn your income, it is bound to be deductible.

[S T]

Spoiled

I never signed the agreement! He doesn't know how to work the new washing machine and dryer, as it is all electronic and pushing a mulitude of buttons.

Sandy

[S T]

Wouldn't that be nice

The hubby is on my payroll - but I don't think it qualifies as uniform expense!

Sandy

[DTS]

Hey,

aren't verbal agreements honored anymore?

[S T]

I don't think so

Noooooooooo!

I never verbally agreed to that, it was presumed!

[DTS]

You are too funny!

[S T]

Need to

Find some humor here some where in the last days prior to 4/15/09, otherwise you might as well commit me to the "funny farm".

S

[Black Bart]

Shortsless

...I just replied, just hang on to your "shorts" for another day or two, and the routine will be back to normal...

Just go buy more...

I sympathize with your husband. My wife works side-by-side with me, the laundry gets waaayy behind, and she won't let me touch those funny-looking dials (claims I tore up the dang thing last time I "helped" her).

Still, if it looks like I might be comin' down with jungle rot, the gallopin' crud, or conkus-of-the bonkus, then I can get her to buy me a 3-pack at Wal-Mart.

ON THE OTHER HAND...if she's outta drawers, she's outta luck 'cause there's no way I'm browsin' around the bloomers department. Call me a male chauvinist or whatever, but there's just somethin' different about it.......

[BHoffman]

Baaaaaa. I'm already there.

Hubby loves to do laundry and does not enjoy, nor is he good at, cooking. He does try. He even brings the plate to my desk with the meat cut up and everything. The portions are about what you'd feed a 3 year old. 5 pieces of dried up baked to death chicken cut into 1/2" squares, 4 peas, a teaspoon of mashed potato. I generally lose about 5 pounds every tax season.

But I always have clean jammies

[Koss]

Modern Appliances

ST wrote:

I never signed the agreement! He doesn't know how to work the new washing machine and dryer, as it is all electronic and pushing a multitude of buttons.

Sandy

Since you mentioned earlier that your husband is on your payroll, you just need to drag him into the 21st century, and show him to process electronic laundry...

See IRS Publication 1355, Federal E-Wash Services for Tax Professionals, or visit www.irs.gov/taxpros/ewash.html

Your husband will have to fill out Form 8637 in order to apply for an EWIN.



BMK

[DTS]

ION THE OTHER HAND...if she's outta drawers, she's outta luck 'cause there's no way I'm browsin' around the bloomers department. Call me a male chauvinist or whatever, but there's just somethin' different about it.......

Bart,

Why the heck are you embarrassed to buy a pack of ladie's underwear? If they can, we can. Stares from the customers don't bother me one bit!

D

[Lion]

Cooking & Laundry

My husband cooks, so I gain weight during tax season with same food and less activity. He also shops so buys me chocolate. However, I do the laundry. I take it a bit personally when he asks if his underwear is in the dryer! Since he shops at Cosco anyway, he can buy a huge pack. I've always warned him to have two to three weeks' worth of undies. I tend to get all the laundry done within a week, but don't put my own away. I have a basket on the bedroom floor right now with various clothing of mine that came out of the dryer over the last week or so. And, I haven't taken the towels out of the dryer for three days since I don't have time to fold them and climb up to the shelves to put them away anyway. My downfall is finding socks that match when everything's still in the basket unsorted.

[S T]

Hate matching the Socks

Lion,

I so agree, I hate the folding and putting away, easy to get it into the Washing Machine, more difficult to get it into the dryer, but the folding and putting away, UGH!

And the socks, forget it. Even though my husband buys the same type, there is something that just doesn't always match from one batch to the next.

Bart, you can buy ladies underwear the same that we can buy Men's, but then after thought, maybe we wouldn't wear them either.

I am having my husband stock up before next tax season, so there is plenty of stock on hand and I don't have to worry about it. The big thing is he keeps changing the style depending on what his mood is or what he is doing. He has to have one style for winter one style for riding a bicycle, etc, he is worse than a "woman".

Burton, I like your idea, but I am having a difficult time with this "employee" and converting him to the electronic age.

Oh help me now if my husband decided to fix meals, I would end up on nothing but celery, nuts and fiber of some sort. Might not be too bad for health, but come on I need some comfort food during Tax Time!

S