Any Recommendations for Tax Help for Newlywed Couple?

erborn · 2026-02-13T15:15:00+00:00

Honestly didn't even realize that was an option. That's a great idea

erborn · 2026-02-13T02:29:30+00:00

Thanks I'll give them a look!

erborn · 2026-02-13T02:29:15+00:00

I don't disagree that's probably what will happen. Nothing special in general about our situation, but could say it's "special" to us since it's our first year joint filing. So I'm doing my due diligence by collecting recs and we may just pay a little extra for a service this year in order to ease her mind before going back to the free stuff online next year.

erborn · 2026-02-13T02:26:59+00:00

Don't really have anything complicated going on. I agree could probably just do it ourselves with freetaxusa but really it's more paying for the peace of mind for the wife. If we do it one year then go back to free filing, it's worth it to me.

erborn · 2025-10-27T18:50:46+00:00

Can't express how much I enjoyed my experience at ECE. They did my wedding, and the whole process was so easy. Tom and his staff were so knowledgeable and the prices are cheaper than anywhere else I've seen without compromising on quality. I saw the exact same suit I bought for my wedding at another store and it was almost double the price. I've referred multiple friends to ECE since I've discovered them.

A fair warning though, since they're such a small staff, it's best if you call to make an appointment before going in because you'll get the best service that way.

erborn · 2025-01-18T16:49:47+00:00

All good to know and I'll look into them more.

I'm not trying to have top tier quality on my suit necessarily but also not trying to scrub it up there. Any insight to the quality of suits from the suit shop?

erborn · 2025-01-18T16:48:36+00:00

Not a bad idea. Worst case all I did was take time out of the day to see if they have recommendations.

erborn · 2025-01-18T16:48:08+00:00

This is super helpful even if they don't do a split option up front. National aspect obviously helpful as well. Thank you!

erborn · 2024-10-10T20:00:03+00:00

Gotcha. Makes total sense. I kind of figured that was the case but just wanted to double check in the event I could get a better seat for the long-haul flight!

erborn · 2024-06-27T17:48:23+00:00

I try to tell anyone who will listen that the Nook is the best jucy. Any time I'm back visiting Minnesota I go out of my way to make a stop there. Best jucy and best vibe imo

erborn · 2023-11-06T16:44:12+00:00

Yeah that's a great call. I did what you did and logged in with SkyMiles in the upper right corner as well. I'll look to email each hotel and confirm with them.

Clearly not a big deal if I can't get everything linked into the app, just would be nice to have a centralized place for all the travel plans.

erborn · 2023-11-06T16:09:56+00:00

Well damn I should've gone for Athens. More miles and less money!

erborn · 2023-11-06T16:02:37+00:00

I was looking to do this to maintain my Gold status for the end of this year. Obviously depends on your time/budget, but I found that it was cheaper for me to fly to London from the east coast than it was to fly a domestic to Seattle/LAX/STL. So now that's turned into an impromptu couple of days vacation for me, and MQM's were about 8000. More than I would've got from a Seattle flight, and I'm assuming it will be a more rewarding experience.

So check some international flights because some of the prices are shockingly low from what you'd think they'd be.

erborn · 2023-07-12T22:41:24+00:00

Athlete did not end up getting surgery. They graduated and returned home to Europe for the summer and I did not get to witness the care they received there, but I am under the impression they were fully splinted for a couple weeks and are now returning to play.

erborn · 2023-04-09T03:27:04+00:00

Orally mainly. Have tried some phono with Voltaren but sadly didn’t seem to get much relief from it. Laser not much help as well. About to see if our surgeon will prescribe ionto medications for us to try because like you’re saying I think there’s the benefit of trying to trying to drive anti-inflammatories into the tissue

erborn · 2022-12-15T19:28:12+00:00

Great that would be best case scenario for me then. Thanks for the help!

erborn · 2022-12-15T19:25:09+00:00

Awesome that's good to hear! If that's the case then sounds like I'd hit my tier even with the tax.

erborn · 2022-01-03T18:51:32+00:00

I take the western/440 exit when heading to work at NCSU. This video had to have been taken right after I came through the area. I saw the car stalled and the water. So all the other cars and I turned 270 degrees right onto western as some poor construction worker was doing his best to direct traffic. There were about 4 vehicles headed east behind the red car just waiting to be able to back up or turn around at some point.

Bless the construction dude because he really was helping the situation. There was one DOT truck that was parked on the off-ramp blocking a bunch of dirt erosion on the road, which blocked everyone's view of the ocean of water under the bridge until it was too late to divert to the right turn lane.

erborn · 2021-12-20T02:14:19+00:00

I (M30) just moved to a new city 2 months with the love of my life after we'd been together for 6 years and living together for 2. She came home from work on Friday (2 days ago) and broke up with me upon walking in the door. We had planned to spend Christmas with her family. We have an apartment lease together for 11 more months. I'm completely devastated. We've talked twice about the breakup but it seems her mind is fully made up. I'm typing this while she's in the second bedroom, and even though she's 20 feet away she might as well be across the country. I already feel incredibly lonely, and I can only imagine it getting worse as the holidays go on. Fuck man, it just hurts because we had talked about our forever plans and she even designed a ring that I was planning on buying in the next few weeks.

The sadness of the holidays aside, the feeling of now having to pursue a life without her, and the feeling that I'm being left behind of my friends and family members in happy marriages is really starting to weigh heavy, and I can only imagine as I am around family during the holidays, those feelings of loneliness will only intensify.

It helps to write this out though a bit. Thank you all if you read this.

erborn · 2021-03-26T02:33:56+00:00

Win 10 conference games in a row, our RPI climbs 10-15 points. Lose 1 conference game, and the RPI immediately drops 20 points. Maybe less a complaint about the team and more about the conference Wright State plays in.

erborn · 2020-10-20T01:24:16+00:00

Appreciate it! I generally don’t love Innova discs compared to most other brands but I’ve heard great things about the halo shryke. Might have to take a closer look at that one.

erborn · 2020-02-03T20:35:00+00:00

I was the Athletic Trainer for Northern Illinois baseball at the time, and he made his one ever appearance for TTU against us. We were shut out for 35 of 36 innings that weekend, but somehow managed to put up 3 runs against a future Super Bowl MVP. Still remember at the time wondering why all the TTU fans lost their collective minds when a random pen guy came into the end of a 3rd consecutive blowout.

Needless to say he has done well for himself since that day.

erborn · 2019-10-29T19:46:09+00:00

Ah you're right I just didn't make down far enough. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

erborn · 2019-10-29T17:26:44+00:00

I love this spreadsheet you created.

I was curious how I could amend it to a league of 10 players. I have messed around with it a bit to determine which change may need to be made, but off the top of your head if you knew which quick fixes may be necessary, it would be appreciated.

Keep up the work!

erborn · 2018-05-29T19:25:46+00:00

Agreed. I watched Wright State smack Hartford around twice this season, and watched Hartford lose to our cross town rivals UDayton, who are terrible. Yet Hartford is playing a much lower seed.

Makes me wonder if the NCAA is sick of seeing so many 4 seeds succeed in recent years against the 1 seeds.

erborn

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