Most Tedious Task
By Anna
@LadyDuck (472004)
Switzerland
April 10, 2016 4:14am CST
What is the most tedious task in your opinion?
For me it's something that comes once a year, filling tax forms.
Both yesterday and this morning I only had a very little time for myLot, but
finally the tax forms are filled and ready to be sent.
How is your Sunday?
We have a beautiful sunny day, I plan to work a little in the garden in the afternoon.
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@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
10 Apr 16
My Sunday is doing well. Our boxing Champ won again and I had to work only in the morning. Hmmm, most tedious task I have to do is cleaning my room. I don't allow our maid to do the cleaning of my room. there are just things that i don't want her to touch at all. I find it really tedious to be cleaning it.
As with taxes, I have a book keeper to do that for me.
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@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
10 Apr 16
@LadyDuck great for you. I have never done my tax ever at all. It's not as complicated when I was just an employee, but I just don't do it. I'm lazy. And our family always have a book keeper that we depend on.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
10 Apr 16
@toniganzon I am a business accountant, we worked as self employer all our life. For me it's not too complicated to fill those forms.
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@kaka135 (14931)
• Malaysia
10 Apr 16
I guess when you have a company business, that can be really tedious. That's why many people prefer to get a tax consultant to do the tedious work for them, right?
I can't think of any tedious work, but accounting is definitely not my favorite, I suppose I just don't like tedious work.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
11 Apr 16
@LadyDuck luckily it's just once a year
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
12 Apr 16
@infatuatedbby Oh my, it would be horrible if those forms had to be filled more times in a year.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
10 Apr 16
I did have a period of completing tax forms on a regular annual basis, but those are now in the past. It used to be particularly annoying that I would state that I was single, then had to enter the amount of income for my wife in several dozen sections.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
10 Apr 16
Paperwork of any kind. I love that most of our household paperwork is now accomplished online, paperfree. I am improving my system for tax accounting. Each year, it gets easier and involves less paper. Whew.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
11 Apr 16
@ElizabethWallace Well I have a degree as Business Consultant, even if I do not like to fill those forms, it's not a difficult task to do.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
10 Apr 16
@LadyDuck I hire it done. I do not do well with forms. They make me crazy. It is best for me to organize my information and give it in a simple list to the guy who does not go crazy doing it.
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
10 Apr 16
I have a post here about the most difficult task for me and that is to fill up the medical reimbursement. form.
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
10 Apr 16
@LadyDuck A lifetime limit is set for variou categories and hence we have to provide bills and prescriptions.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
10 Apr 16
This is very easy here, we are allowed to ask for a fixed amount for medical reimbursement, that correspond to a little more that what we paid for the medical insurance. I have checked and I get more asking for this than asking for what I really paid.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
10 Apr 16
@allknowing We have not because all the medical bills and prescriptions are sent directly to our health insurance.
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
10 Apr 16
The most tedious paperwork task for me every year is the resigning and rereading of the many pages of inept bureaucratic garbage that is on this lease.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
11 Apr 16
@LadyDuck They love to know it all here with all their papers Anna, yet they lack true education to avoid waste. Love to aggravate people..they are quite ignorant and useless in their pursuits.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
11 Apr 16
@TiarasOceanView You are right, they love to aggravate people. What a stupid attitude.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
11 Apr 16
I do find filing tax forms tedious, but then I did them professionally for 8 years as an accountant. On a regular basis the task I find most tedious is folding laundry. I don't know why, but folding laundry sets my teeth on edge and I get so aggravated.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
10 Apr 16
i've yet to e'en start out taxes, somethin' rare fer myself. i've usually got'em done by the first week'f february. i've jest no desire to know't the moment what we're gonna owe'n tax penalties fer not havin' health insurance - somethin' we can't afford.
spent the mornin' out with the horses, putterin' 'round my wee sanctuary, snappin' pics 'n e'en brought some sewin' outdoors 'til the winds returned.
'tis calmed down a bit now 'n i'm thinkin' 'f headin' back out.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
12 Apr 16
@crazyhorseladycx Oh no, I do not want to see tax forms for a full year now. Today is a beautiful day, I plan to stay outside and work in the garden a few hours.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
11 Apr 16
We usually receive the forms to fill the first week of March and they have to be completed by the end of April. This year I did not wait until the last day, I am glad it's over. Spending the morning outdoors with the horses is a beautiful way to spend a Sunday. In the afternoon I have worked a little in the garden.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
11 Apr 16
@LadyDuck wanna come' tackle mine? lol, i'm nearly outta time to get'em done. shameful, i know. today'd been a perfect day fer such a chore's the cold winds've howled 'n nary a glimpse'f sunshine. alas, i jest aint'n the mood fer such. glad'ja got to get out'n yer garden :D
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
11 Apr 16
Although getting taxes ready is tedious, all bookkeeping and filing is just as tedious in my opinion. And, maybe even more tedious than taxes for some it can be put off indefinitely At least at tax time, the things I need for that get worked through, but then usually it goes on a pile for finishing later. This time, I actually boxed up my 2015 and 2014 work. I just have a few more areas to go through to make sure it's all in those boxes.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
14 Apr 16
@MarshaMusselman It's warming up a little here, but I would not guess that the cold season is over. Until the second week of May we can still have cold days.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
14 Apr 16
@LadyDuck I need to remember to do some quarterly forms soon. I tend to forget the first quarter because we don't begin working with our employees more hours until April, generally, and I forget about that first quarter. With the extended snowy season we're getting a later start this year. I'm hoping we can fill in the week next with lots of work as I took off from my other job, but customers may not be ready just yet since it's just beginning to warm up now.
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@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
10 Apr 16
Lucky for me it is the company who does the filing of tax. But all in all my job lately has become so tedious. I need to go out on client calls, meetings, and presentations. In the office I have proposals to make and all other reports.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
10 Apr 16
@nottoooldtowrite I also hate numbers and I ended up with a degree as business accountant.
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@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
10 Apr 16
@LadyDuck in general, I don't like numbers but hey I ended up in a job that has a lot to do with numbers. Lol.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
11 Apr 16
I have someone who does my taxes and I agree, even if I haven't done it in my life, I think doing taxes is indeed 'taxing'. Pun intended!
Monday already here in Manila. Sunday was fine. Got bored with the fight. The Vice-Presidential candidates had a debate in the afternoon and more punches were thrown in that debate!
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
12 Apr 16
@LadyDuck boring is hardly a word I'll describe politics here in the Philippines. 'Dirty' is more apt!
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
12 Apr 16
@allen0187 Yes, you are right, in many countries politics rimes with "dirty".
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
11 Apr 16
I find that making beds is something that I have never liked. Noe it is easier because I donĀ“t use the old woolen blankets of my youth.
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
11 Apr 16
@LadyDuck I hate to do the dishes too. Fortunatlly I have a dishwasher and although it does not do all the work, it helps a lot.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
11 Apr 16
@marguicha My dishwasher broke a couple of months ago, now I have to find one to replace it, it has the front identical to the kitchen cabinets, I need someone to take the front out and put it on the new one... I am very tempted to give up.
@Juliaacv (51461)
• Canada
10 Apr 16
I cannot relate to stress at tax time due to the preparation. We have always taken our taxes out to be done by a professional, that way, if we are audited, which we have been, they can answer the questions, and we can relax knowing that it was done by a professional and that they worked in our best interest. Even our young son takes his out, although his is quite complicated because he works from home, he can claim a certain percentage of his property taxes, and utility bills as well as the education credits that he still gets because he is still considered to be a full time student due to his course load and can write off his books, tuition and internet.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
10 Apr 16
If it should be a problem, you have to go to reply to their questions in person, so it's better that I do my taxes so I know exactly what I wrote. Anyway the long part is to collect the documents to include, it took less than half an hour to feel the forms.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
11 Apr 16
@josie_ A client of my husband asked him to follow his insurance office in Monte-Carlo, we were young, the rend of the apartment was paid by our client, we loved to live there. It's not only a paradise because you do not pay taxes, in the 80's it was a wonderful place where to live. Now they have built too much, it's no more the same.