Wow that was a nice spring break. Boy did that week go by super fast. Speaking of which, this whole year is going by super fast. I can’t believe that it’s almost April! Where did this last 4 months go? Well anyways, I know I haven’t been posting for a while but I should be able to get back on track now that midterms are over and I have more time 
Good news: Today I finally got my taxes done! And boy was I disappointed(still good news).
So here’s the verdict. Last year I made about 25k with two jobs and paid a little over 5k in taxes. Five thousand US dollars! I was thinking, “man…I’m gonna have a really nice refund this year, I can finally take my girlfriend out to a nice dinner”. I was wrong. It came down to me OWING the state 104 dollars and getting a refund of 600 dollars from federal. The bright side is I get something back, but I was expecting that something to be more like 2k or something. I mean I paid 5k so 2k sounds reasonable right? Overall, after subtracting the 100 bucks for the state balance, I’ll be getting about 500 or so. Better then nothing eh?
Bad news: I’m still in debt. And doesn’t looks like I’m gonna be debt free within the next month 
With all the recent bills tackled onto my credit card, looks like I’m back where I was in February. My credit card is back up to a little over five thousand dollars again. Here’s the lineup for what’s been slowing me down:
- Six months of auto insurance
- Last 3 months of cell phone bills
- Membership fees
- Grocery/gas
- Car maintenance
So all that has put me back up to a total of $5,404.22. I do have some incoming cash so I think I can knock it back down to about 3-4k. My goal is to get this whole thing paid off before summer starts. I would love to start my summer off being debt free.
I want to remind everyone that the last day to file your taxes are April 17th so if you haven’t done so get them done!