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10 Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy

1 November 2011

I love Halloween. I do. I love the camp, the excess, the whole over the top vibe. I dress up every year. I make my kids’ costumes for our school parade. I bake ridiculous amounts of cupcakes and make silly snacks that are meant to look gross like hotdogs that look like bloody toes in [...]

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Comment for the Cure: Breast Cancer Awareness and Tax

20 October 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you probably already know a little bit about my maternal grandmother. If you don’t, let me fill you in… She made the best vegetable soup in the world. She raised eight children, including an invalid son whom she refused to institutionalize even though everyone told her different. She dyed [...]

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Back to School: Volunteering Your Services

6 September 2011

My kids started school today and already the cry for volunteers has started. I’m not complaining because I get it. Schools are increasingly the target of cuts in spending (deserved or not is another question) and as a result, they are in a scramble to make up for missing programs, teacher shortages and funding. Fortunately, [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Business Expenses

13 April 2011

Taxpayer asks: I give monthly to a Christian Radio Station. Is this considered a deduction since it comes out of my blogging business account, not my personal account??? taxgirl says: I love this question because there are a bunch of issues here… One, it’s smart that you’re keeping your blogging business and personal account information [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Sheltering Books

30 December 2010

The nominations are in for the 12 Days of Charitable Giving 2010. Our final of twelve charities to be featured this year is Sheltering Books, a nonprofit organization that collects women and children’s books and donates them to homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and residential treatment centers that house children. The organization began in 2007 [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Back on My Feet

27 December 2010

The nominations are in for the 12 Days of Charitable Giving 2010. Our eleventh of twelve charities to be featured this year is Back on My Feet, a nonprofit organization that promotes the self-sufficiency of homeless populations by engaging them in running as a means to build confidence, strength and self-esteem. Here’s what our nominee [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Interfaith Hospitality Network

25 December 2010

The nominations are in for the 12 Days of Charitable Giving 2010. Our tenth of twelve charities to be featured this year is Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network whose mission is to mobilize resources and volunteers among the diverse congregations and communities of Northwest Philadelphia in direct response to the needs of homeless families for [...]

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12 Days of Christmas: Broad Universe

23 December 2010

The nominations are in for the 12 Days of Charitable Giving 2010. Our ninth of twelve charities to be featured this year is Broad Universe, a nonprofit international organization of women and men dedicated to celebrating and promoting the work of women writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Here’s what our nominee had to [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Region 10

22 December 2010

The nominations are in for the 12 Days of Charitable Giving 2010. Our eighth of twelve charities to be featured this year is Region 10 Community Support Services, Inc., which provides services and support to people who have developmental disabilities or acquired brain disorders. Here’s what our nominee had to say: Region 10 is one [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Cookies at Christmas

21 December 2010

Taxpayer asks: My daughter and I make cookies every year to give out at our local VA hospital at Christmas. Can we take a deduction for this on our taxes? taxgirl says: As a mom, I think what you’re doing is terrific. And as the sister of military personnel (one lifer, one retired), I think [...]

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