Ugh! I kept wanting to nip outside to do real work - although I did sneak in several visits here to break up the tedium. But finally I can go outside, feed the animals, split some wood and have fun again!
Skip, skip, skip...
I hate paperwork
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Stonehead
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I hate paperwork
I've just finished doing and filing a day's worth of paperwork and, boy, do I loathe doing the stuff. Accounts, tax, tax credits, livestock books, animal medicine records, utility bills, car tax, OU, nitrate plans, waste disposal plans, etc etc.
Ugh! I kept wanting to nip outside to do real work - although I did sneak in several visits here to break up the tedium. But finally I can go outside, feed the animals, split some wood and have fun again!
Skip, skip, skip...
Ugh! I kept wanting to nip outside to do real work - although I did sneak in several visits here to break up the tedium. But finally I can go outside, feed the animals, split some wood and have fun again!
Skip, skip, skip...
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Boots
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oh YEAH... Don't I know that feeling!
Have been stuck at this THING for hours completing a research submission and I get so sick of stringing words together and watching the clock as deadline approaches! Ugh... just leaves me gritting my teeth. The mudpit, gardens and critters all just seem like some sort of withheld heaven or dangling carrot or something...
There is never enough time for the good stuff, is there? Fleeting moments of simpleness...
Have been stuck at this THING for hours completing a research submission and I get so sick of stringing words together and watching the clock as deadline approaches! Ugh... just leaves me gritting my teeth. The mudpit, gardens and critters all just seem like some sort of withheld heaven or dangling carrot or something...
There is never enough time for the good stuff, is there? Fleeting moments of simpleness...
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Muddypause
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When I saw the subject line, I thought you were still talking about toilets.
Last year I gave my accountant the sack - it seems that for years I have spent ages of agony over my books, me doing all the work, and my accountant charging me hundreds of pounds. So a while ago I asked him to give me an hour's lesson on how to fill in the tax return, so that I no longer needed his services. I've also found that the Inland Revenue's online taxform filling software is fairly painless to fill in, and quite easy to understand.
But I've also put together a huge spreadsheet that keeps tabs on everything I spend, and every income. It's evolved over the years; I enter each week's spending or income, and the sheet will tabulate it into graphs, work out averages, keep track of standing orders, and tell me if I've spent more than I've earned. Now it will also do a tax summary that I pretty much just have to copy into the tax return.
I keep all recipts and other records in a dated poythene bag - one per month. At the end of each month the bag gets put into an 'annual' bag which sits in a cupboard and is forgotten about (they will only be needed in the event of a tax inspection, and after six years can be discarded). Can't get simpler than that.
Car tax, utilities, credit card bills, etc., all get done online now.
BTW, a while back I started the I'm-never-going-to-fill-in-another-form-as-long-as-I-live society. I can send you a membership form if you like.
Last year I gave my accountant the sack - it seems that for years I have spent ages of agony over my books, me doing all the work, and my accountant charging me hundreds of pounds. So a while ago I asked him to give me an hour's lesson on how to fill in the tax return, so that I no longer needed his services. I've also found that the Inland Revenue's online taxform filling software is fairly painless to fill in, and quite easy to understand.
But I've also put together a huge spreadsheet that keeps tabs on everything I spend, and every income. It's evolved over the years; I enter each week's spending or income, and the sheet will tabulate it into graphs, work out averages, keep track of standing orders, and tell me if I've spent more than I've earned. Now it will also do a tax summary that I pretty much just have to copy into the tax return.
I keep all recipts and other records in a dated poythene bag - one per month. At the end of each month the bag gets put into an 'annual' bag which sits in a cupboard and is forgotten about (they will only be needed in the event of a tax inspection, and after six years can be discarded). Can't get simpler than that.
Car tax, utilities, credit card bills, etc., all get done online now.
BTW, a while back I started the I'm-never-going-to-fill-in-another-form-as-long-as-I-live society. I can send you a membership form if you like.
Stew
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Ignorance is essential
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Millymollymandy
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Still it is still more fun than the filing!