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[mdlbear]

25 more minutes of excavating in the receipt box has definitely made a noticable dent; the box now looks merely "full" rather than "overstuffed". The office is still a disaster area, of course. And unlike previous years I'm making an effort to unfold folded-up full-page receipts, which makes the folders thinner. So there's a chance it may actually fit in the box this year.

The office and garage are still disasters, of course.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Confucious say, longest journey start with single step.

We're going to spend most of the day decluttering the kitchen and living room from all the post-move detritus... whee. It'll be worth it, though, to have company over and not have to apologise...

[mdlbear]

Don't forget that you only have... I think it's one year... to roll over the profits from cflute's house in order to avoid paying capital gains tax on it. In some cases it may be easier to stack lower-priority boxes in a closet.

It wasn't until last year that we finally got rid of the two boxes of magazines that had been sitting in our front closet since our initial move-in.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

cflute checked, and the laws have changed. The first $250k of cap gains from sale of primary residence is, currently, tax-free (unless you know a CPA that says otherwise).

We're going to have a storage facility for a while, we know.... fortunately, she's good at organizing long-term storage.

Wheeeeee... and you've beein in the Starport how long??

[mdlbear]

30 years almost exactly -- we moved the September after we were married. If we hadn't remodelled twice it would be paid off by now.

In my case, cap. gains would probably be more than $250K even after deducting the outstanding balance from our very recent re-fi.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Wow. That *is* a long time.

And, yeah, given what the housing market did during the dot-com craze and then again recently, anything that's not a total dump down there is easily seven figures.... so, yeah, I have to agree with you in hoping that your next move is posthumous... although would much prefer it if it was none too soon.

[mdlbear]

More like mid-six -- it's an old and not-very-desirable neighborhood.