She spent $8,000 at a seminar on an "internet business opportunity". Now what? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Nov 10, 2009 - 30 answers

[Economics101Filter] How is it that the cost of living can go up, but salaries stay the same? Economics n00b questions inside. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 26, 2009 - 27 answers

How do I respond to an interviewers salary questions? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 7, 2009 - 29 answers

What are some tips on wisely handling an increase in income? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 5, 2009 - 19 answers

I'm about to see a huge increase in my income. What should I know? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 28, 2009 - 26 answers

What do you do, aside from your regular day job, to bring in extra streams of revenue? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 18, 2009 - 23 answers

Self-employment tax help for out-of-state web work [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 24, 2009 - 9 answers

What sort of state of organization are the financial records of most sole proprietorships in? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 17, 2009 - 5 answers

I'm making four times what I have in the past, so should I continue to do my own taxes or should I try an accountant this year? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 14, 2009 - 19 answers

How can I convince my wife that we need her income and that as much as we'd like to have our son at home with her instead of in Day Care, we have to face reality or severely cut back our lifestyle. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 8, 2007 - 28 answers

We have a couple of blogs and use a combination of Google Ads, AdBrite and Amazon Associates placements on them. We're trying to figure out how best to approach the income from these ads on our tax filings... [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 4, 2006 - 20 answers

I did my taxes this weekend and was surprised to find out my husband and I made about 120k last year. After a few rocky dot-com years and a new job for both of us, I knew we were doing ok, but had no idea we would break the six figure barrier for the first time in our lives. The problem is, not much seems different. I always thought making $100k/year meant we could have anything. We don't live paycheck to paycheck and we don't sweat going to the grocery store, but we don't have a huge plasma tv and we both drive economical cars. Our house is worth less than $200k. Are we bad with money? Should we see a financial planner and budget everything to see where it is all going? I feel like we should have tens of thousands of savings given what we make (we have a few grand in the bank for emergencies is all). I feel like we're living just as we did when we made half as much and I'm also concerned if we'll have enough for kids someday. Or am I doing everything right and the $100k/year american dream isn't all it's cracked up to be? This honestly took me by surprise.
posted by anonymous on Feb 13, 2005 - 45 answers