[RosieCotton]

I'm assuming it's the more than one exemption thing? Dunno what else it could be. I barely made anything with the band...most of the gigs we did were for free...so I didn't think I even needed to include those. I would think unless you made over a hundred or something over the course of the year, no one is going to care.

But I could swear I just checked one exemption.

Then, I also got one unemployment check this year, plus what little was in my retirement fund at the company I was working for. So those may have done it, I don't know!

It's mostly just the timing that makes it so tough. Otherwise I wouldn't mind so much. Ah well. Such is life.

[HairOfTheDog]

It could have been the retirement fund check, if that was tax-deferred it would have been untaxed unless they withheld it when they cashed you out. It would say that on the W-9. Any untaxed income of significance will get ya at return time, so I wondered if you had reported band gigs. I have done enough work on the side... a couple thousand dollars... to end up owing in the past. But I also made the mistake on my W-2 once of counting 1 exemption for me, and 1 for head of household. A single person shouldn't do that... Head of household is for folks with kids.

[ecurbh]

Sorry to hear about the guitar, Rosie. I know how hard it can be to let stuff like that go.

I had to sell one of my trombones last year, the one that had played in my first two years of college. There were lots of good (and some painful) memories associated with that horn.

Is this a guitar you use sometimes and will miss, or is it just a dust collector? My trombone had sat unused in the closet for about 4 years, and I saw no point in keeping it around as I continued to move back and forth around the country. Although my cross-country moves are finished now. ;~D