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and complete resource this is. Money for Your Used Clothing is also a workbook -- one that you fill in with your specific information (the instructions are very easy to follow) then keep with your tax records. If you are ever audited due to the values you claim on your return for Tax Year 2015, you’re in good shape because with this resource comes with an Audit Protection Guarantee. Bill and his team will step in as your Power of Attorney to defend your deductions. And if the IRS prevails, they will pay any penalties and fees involved. How can they take on that risk? Because the information they provide is rock solid. It is reliable and I can tell you that from personal experience. When Bill Lewis says you will increase your tax refund (or reduce your tax liability if you owe) by at least $250, he’s not kidding. In the past 20 years that I have been recommending this resource, our Everyday Cheapskate and Debt-Proof Living members have collectively save hundreds of thousands of dollars in over payment of taxes. If you donate items that are in good or better condition to a non-profit organization with taxexempt status that gives a receipt for donations, you really need to capture the highest and best valuation for those donations. It’s legal, ethical and smart, too. One more thing: You must use the 2015 Tax Year version of Money for Your Used Clothing for your 2015 return. You dare not try to use an earlier year’s valuations because that will void your Audit Protection Guarantee. Values change radically from one year to the next. By some miracle, we are able again this year to offer this booklet for $20 plus shipping, even though it retails for much more. Go to www. everydaycheapskate.com/moneybook15 to order online or call Josh at 800-550-3502, 8:30am to 5:00pm, Mon-Fri, Mountain Time to order by phone. Would you like more information? Log on to Every-

Are your storage areas overflowing? Do your children outgrow their clothes at the speed * Those who study such things say that of light? Have you outgrown -- or just grown tired Roman emperor Gaius Julius Verus Maxiof -- some of your clothes and® household items? minus was more than 8 feet tall. Wouldn’t it be nice to receive some cash for those unwanted but by perfectly Mary Huntusable items that over* If you live east of the Rocky Mountains, whelm your storage space? you’ve probably spent summer evenings It’s a typical scene. You’ve cleaned out a watching the flashing green or yellow lights closet or your garage and have a box full of items of those beetles we call fireflies. You might you no longer want. Maybe they’re left over from be surprised to learn, though, that different a garage sale. You’d rather give it to charity than species have different colored lights. For send it to a landfill, or maybe you just don’t want to instance, the Paraguayan railway beetle have a garage sale. can show both green and red lights (like a You know you can deduct the value of the railway lantern; hence, the name). items on your tax return. (By the way, your return for 2015 is due Apr 18, 2016 with thanks to Wash., * According to the U.S. Census Bureau, D.C. for the gift of a 3-day extension. Washington there are currently more than 1,500 Ameriwill celebrate Emancipation Day on April 15 and can residents named “Seven.” the IRS will be closed. The next business day is Monday, April 18, 2016.) But the question is: How * The Taj Mahal, widely known as “the jewel are you we supposed to know the values of items of Muslim art in India,” was commissioned in good condition that we donate to qualified chariin 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jaties? han, who wanted the tomb of his favorite The problem: If we overstate the values, wife to be housed in splendor. After conwe risk an IRS audit, penalties and interest. If we struction was complete, Jahan wanted to underestimate, we could end up paying more taxes ensure that this architectural wonder would than required. never have a rival, so he had the chief ar For many years the hubs and I have relied chitect and main artisans put to death. The on William Lewis, CPA, who compiles one of the stone masons who had done the best work most valuable resources I know for ordinary folks dayCheapskate.com, where this column is archived comon the structure had their hands amputatlike us. “Money for Your Used Clothing” is an amaz- plete with links and resources for all recommended prodPlease review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric ed, and the artists responsible for the deliing resource that lists more than 1,300 values for ucts and services. Mary invites questions, comments and at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or with c/o Everyday cate inlay work were blinded. commonly donated household and clothingContact items yourtips Tidbits representative immediately changes or corre Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, Seal based on current prices of these items on the secOffice: 760-320-0997 Beach, CA 90740. This column will Fax: answer760-320-1630 questions of * In some parts of colonial America it was ondary market. general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. illegal to kiss your spouse in public. How does he come up with this list? I can Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a *** TUES., NOV. 3 promise you he does not rely on haphazard lists personal finance member website and the author of “Debt* Thought for the Day: “The moment we anyone can find online that supposedly offer said Proof Living,” released in 2014. To find out more about iew carefully. 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Worse, if you don’t report changes quickly enough, no matter what kind of benefit you receive, you can be sanctioned and lose your payments for six months. If it happens again, that would increase to 12 or 24 months with no payments. There are three publications that are helpful in learning our responsibilities: What You Need to Know When You Get Social Security Disability Benefits, What You Need to Know When You Get Supplemental Security Income, and What You Need to Know When You Get Retirement or Survivors Benefits. Those publications can be read online at www.socialsecurity.gov. Or you can call Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. If you need the TTY number, that’s 1-800-325-0778. If you’re online, take a look every week at the Social Security blog (blog.ssa.gov). It will keep you up on new information you need.

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CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) er dog several times a day. Today she growled and snapped at me when I tried to get her off the kitchen table. And later, when I broke up the fight with her brother, she bit pretty deep into my hand. I have a 2-year-old son I am concerned about. I bought Ginger to give my older dog company, but she is stressing me out.” Little dogs, big trouble. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Neither Dixie nor Ginger was properly socialized or trained. People love the look and convenience of compact canines, but these dogs tend to get a free ride. Expectations are low and efforts at discipline are nonexistent because it’s assumed the consequences, like the dog, will be minimal. In April of 2007, National Geographic News and the journal Science printed the results of a study that asked the question: What makes a small dog small? They identified a variation in a single gene -- IGH-1 -- that acts as a key player in the suppression of growth in toy dogs. Lead researcher Elaine Ostrander of the National Human Genome Research Institute said, “The best way to describe the role of the gene is, it’s like the ‘reduce’ button on a Xerox machine.” In other words, small dogs are still dogs -- with all their varying personalities and temperaments, with all their instincts and teeth. We owe it to them as much as their large counterparts to give them the education they need to remain at the top of those lists. Woof!

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provisions. Those provisions generally keep seniors and June. That's $8,120 over the $41,880 limit. And who are still working off of Social Security's rolls unone third of that excess, or about $2,707 must be til they reach that magic "full retirement age." deducted from his 2016 benefits. But he would still YOUR The law essentially says if you are over 62 get $22,853 in benefits for the year. That's still way but under your full retirement age and are still workbetter than the $13,200 he would be due by waiting ing full time, you are not eligible for Social Security. until July to file for his Social Security. Specifically, the rules require that the SSA deduct $1 I know these rules are complicated and the from any retirement benefits you might be due for by Tom Margenau math in the examples above might be difficult to every $2 you earn over $15,720 in 2016. follow. But my overall message is easy to follow: If However, the rules say that once you reach you're reaching age 66 in 2016, and you were planyour full retirement age, you are due full Social Sening on starting your Social Security that age, TUES.,atMAR. 15talk curity benefits even if you are still working and no to a Social Security representative sometime soon matter how much money you are making. Please review carefully. Double Phone Number(s) Spelling  Pr to find out if it'scheck: to youradvantage to file forthose Let's follow an example. Let's say Ed was benefits in January. born in July 1950, which means he'll reach Contact his full your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corre retirement age of 66 in July 2016. And let's further Office: If you have a Social Security question, Tom Mar760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 say Ed generally makes about $80,000 per year and genau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@ comcast.net. 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I practiced scales, (UGH!) when I was a child in the 1940s. The pot and the pedestal are in two pieces, and both are unmarked. There are geese or swans at the ver y top. On the lower section is what looks like a Cyclops eye and at the base, there are heads of mythical creatures on two feet. I always felt the “eye” was watching me as I plodded through 60 minutes of d a i l y practice. It now belongs to me, but I know nothing Jardinieres and pedestals were popuabout it. lar in the early 1900s. I have become quite fond of it and would like to learn more about its histor y. Can you help?

Mass. Some of their blanks were also made in Europe. C.F. Monroe was in business from 1898 until World War I. Your dresser box was made around 1900 and can be seen selling around $500 to $600.

C. F. Monroe Company was located in Meriden, Conn., from 1898 to around World War I.

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Conn., made your opal ware dresser box. “Nakara” is the trade name of the ware. They also produced “Kelva” and “Wave Crest” lines. They purchased blown-molded glass blanks that were opaque from several glassmakers, including the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company located in New Bedford, 1. Which two of the four Gospels do not mention the birth of Christ? a) Matthew b) Mark c) Luke d) John 2. 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 2:20 are among the verses to focus on what in a new year? a) Spiritual gifts b) Moving forward c) Grace d) Worship 3. From Matthew 1:20-21, who told Joseph in a dream that the Baby's name was to be Jesus? a) God b) Angel c) Seraphim d) Rabbinical host 4. Which book proclaims the first day of the new year is for resting and a memorial sounding of the trumpet? a) Genesis b) 2 Kings c) Leviticus d) Numbers 5. Whether therefore ye eat, or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the _____ of God. a) Name b) Approval c) Glory d) Worship

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