hellziggy

Yay! I didn't have to pay anything to file my taxes! State Farm Insurance has a deal where their customers can file w/Turbo Tax without paying any fees. Yay!

*edit* Even if you've already started entering the stuff in Turbo Tax online you can still get the free filing. Just make sure that before you get to the page where it lists the charges for Turbo Tax that you use the link on the State Farm page to get to Turbo Tax. Before finding out about the State Farm thing it was going to cost almost $50 for TT & TT state. But now, free!

I'm filling out the medical flex reimbursement forms for me & hellbob, since there's less than a week left in the year. I know, but procrastination is my middle name...
So at the end of the year last year I figured that since hellbob decided to go be diabetic and all that we really should do a substantial amount in the flex spending. I added up the costs of his prescriptions and mine and figured $800 was a good number. Close enough to prescription costs that we'd be guaranteed to use it.
We'd submitted a claim back in May that included his new glasses & contacts also. Adding that claim with the ones I just filled out it comes to $961! That is only prescriptions plus the vision stuff. That doesn't include any prescription receipts that didn't make it onto the designated pile, or any office visit co-pays, or any OTC drugs. Damn. Even without the vision stuff and JUST prescriptions, we were only a office co-pay or two from using the whole amount.
I don't know how anyone who doesn't have insurance pays for drugs. We've got decent insurance and are reasonably healthy and we spent almost a grand this year. Granted, a large chunk of that is the diabetes stuff, but still...