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$6,500 fine for being an Lyft Driver

Lyft and Uber are rideshare services that allow individuals who have a car and some free time to give people who have some cash and need a ride, a ride.  Over the past year there has been a lot of issues with this in big cities as taxi services are …

marriage penalty

Marriage Penalty or Windfall?

I don’t think that getting married should affect your tax situation either way, but our tax code is a monster containing many latent effects from numerous revisions and additions over time. How much of a difference can getting married actually make in your tax return? It depends mostly on how …

moving a pool

Extreme Frugalness Story: Moving a Pool

I saw this pool outside our local Wal-Mart on my last visit there and it brought back some memories. When I had owned a truck we bought one for the kids at our last house. The kids loved it and it worked really well for my younger son, because the …

Gates Foundation Big Bet

Warren Buffett Gift Mechanism: $2 Billion This Year

In 2006 Warren Buffett set up a plan to donate large sums of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  He set this up in such a way that his donations would essentially double the amount of money the charity would spend every year.  Essentially, every dollar he …