Tax Credit of $8,000 for First Time Home Buyers

If you are considering buying a new home, you should be aware of this $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers.

Letting Go

I've been carrying the same wallet for about 10 or 15 years that my brother Matthew bought me for Christmas many moons ago. It's gotten so ragged that I have tenants who don't even pay their rent who have offered to buy me a new one. I've put it off for a long time, but tonight I finally broke down and bought a new one.


The little one in the middle came as an added bonus, I guess for when I want to travel light. Here's the open look:


You can't even tell from the pictures how ragged the old one is. But I did get a nice shot of the lint build up:


That 20-10-29 number you see on there? I'm not really sure what that is. Probably the combination to a gym locker at some point...

However, I'm not really sold on this new one. Having those slots for credit cards makes it look like a girl's wallet. And when I put all the cards in it got kind of fat like George Costanza's wallet.


I didn't even put in all the cards I had in the old one -- I had a credit card that I don't use, a Cold Stone gift card with 97 cents on it that I've been carrying around forever, and an old BYU ID.


That white line? Yep, my social security number was printed right on the front. Maybe identity theft didn't exist back in the 90s.