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Hard-headed

I’m about to say something every parent wants to hear their child say yet seldom gets to. Here goes: I wish I had listened to my mom when I was a teenager.

I probably–not probably, DEFINITELY–would have avoided some heartache and learned a few lessons quicker had I done that. I know there were times my mother tried to give me advice about the same subject REPEATEDLY, but I was too stubborn to listen; at 17, I thought I knew it all. Yeah, right.

Well, I am now a mother of four adult daughters and a grandmother to five (one of which is a teenager, ugh), and I KNOW I have given the SAME advice MORE THAN ONCE to all of my girls at one point or another. So, it will be no surprise to you that I’m going to do the same for you. Again.

You might have your taxes done by now. You might be getting a “refund” that isn’t really a refund but a return for overpayment of taxes–you can learn more about that by reading my blog post where I first mentioned it. If you are due a “refund” and have been getting those supposed “refunds” for some time now, I advise you to make a few changes. Read another blog post where I mentioned it here. And if you’re still not convinced, I invite you to read about the subject in yet ANOTHER blog post here. I hope you can “hear” the sarcastic humor with which I wrote that last one.

I know you’re probably tired of hearing about the same subject every spring. But, since April 15 (which is typically Tax Day, depending on which day of the week it falls) is my birthday, cut me some slack. Thanks! 

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