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i stopped by the post office today and picked up a certified letter that was waiting for me: C E R T I F I E D    M A I L WE COULDN’T ALLOW YOUR CLAIM Dear Taxpayer: WHY WE’RE SENDING YOU THIS LETTER This letter is your notice that we’ve disallowed your claim […]

so, you remember a while ago i wrote: • i probably have a complaint on my credit rating now (oh goodie!) for the account they sent to collections after they failed to realize that i had cancelled it; ? i was totally right! i had my bank (love $newbank; love love) run my credit report, […]

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Dear IRS: In a year that you have collected $2,120,000,000,000 ($2.12 trillion), “the most revenue any government in the history of the world has ever collected” … I don’t care if the government overspent its income by another $150bn: I WANT MY 2006 REFUND BACK, ALREADY! crankily, –sabrina

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damn, kids! you quit that running around screaming right now, you hear? do you need a time out?

so i have recently decided to pursue a really, really, really, really, really difficult goal: to pay off my credit card debt by the end of this calendar year. in aid of this, i have been going down my expenses the past four days, and, like Ebenezer Scrooge, slashing through any expense that isn’t strictly […]