Yippee and pass the alcohol.
And yes, I'm thinking even you non-drinkers might have been sorely tempted after doing that job for three long years.
Please keep in mind that one of those years I didn't even have a child attending that school.
No, there is not a special reward waiting for people like me. God is up there laughing. He gave me good sense and an ability to say no. I know he gets a big old belly laugh when I don't use either one of those talents.
I though it would be a relatively easy job. I balance my own check book. I've never bounced a check. I pay my bills on time. Surely those are the full set of special skills needed to be the treasurer of a group that clears a good ten thousand dollars in a good year. Right?
Ha! You're just as crazy as me. Oh, no. Turns out, the beloved Internal Revenue Service has 99% of their trained staff focused just on little organizations like mine.
I guess that explains the rationale behind those commercials where people that owe $50,000 in back taxes can pay $3.47 cents and the lint from their pockets and walk away happy campers.Not so much my little group. Reams of paperwork. Forms due all through the year - I still can't tell you when. I fill them out when I get a letter stating I'm so overdue that they will dissolve our group within a month if I don't comply. Why do I wait? Because that is the only letter I ever get.
It's comical really. You know I love to read the news and I get particular joy from seeing how the big companies have made fortunes by not following the tax laws. Yet I get weekly email tips from the IRS on my tax-exempt organization. Light reading? I don't think so.
I'm going to pass this stack of goodness off to the mom who made me want to kiss her when she said she'd be our new treasurer.
And I am never going to volunteer for that job again.
Was it just me or did anyone else hear a laugh from on high?
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I don't wanna do anything that involves the IRS...pain in the bootie!
You are a good person. I'm sure there is a special (IRS free) place in heaven for you. :)
YOU are such a nice person!
Love from me
I think you're fully justified in never doing that again. Three years seems like a good amount of time for any position, let alone a yucky IRS one.
I just got a letter from the IRS last week saying I owed $1300 in back taxes. Took it to my accountant ... turns out I only owed $64. Oops! Is there a penalty I can inflict on them for making a mistake?? Nope ... only the little people pay for mistakes! ;0)
Next time someone offers a job where the IRS is involved, run, woman, run! ;0)
Love it, so funny Debby.
xoxo
Wait, so this thing called volunteering means you don't get paid? And you do things out of the goodness of your heart? Blechy, blechy.
My dad does tax law.
God's laughing, baby.
Ug. I just volunteered for the last time (say that again and again and again to myself). A simple fundraiser... now that's an oxymoron if ever there was one.
I feel your pain. I feel your need for alcohol. Right after I finish the 3,714th. change to the annual Girls Lacrosse Pie Fundraiser flyer that EVERYONE has an opinion on but no one manages but me...
To volunteers everyone - SUCKERS... I mean, CHEERS!
Oh boy - our school just turned into a PTA and I bet all that fun IRS literature will be headed our way. Joy.
You are a saint :)
Oh, He's laughing all right. So is that woman who tricked you into doing it! I wondered what that party was about three years ago. We could hear it all the way in Arkansas. . .You have now officiallly fulfilled all duties related to non-profit groups for an entire lifetime. This is your offical get out of duty card. : )
You might become low profile on that stuff now.
Every GOOD school booster organization makes sure to have at least three sheltered offshore accounts and a few dummy corporations to which they can assign blame. Every good IRS agent knows that.
YOU are GOOD!!!!! Volunteering is great but volunteering for school projects hen you don't even have a kid in school is WAAAAAAYYYYY beyond good!
xo
What a nightmare! I started to itch just thinking about it. The IRS scares me. Good for you for doin' the time and a cheer (as I life my martini) that you are DONE!
much love
I used to volunteer a lot when my kids were involved in school, and little league. But after a few years of not being able to sleep, I wised up. lol.
Do you feel like a big weight has been lifted off your shoulders now?
I was once a volunteer treasurer for a non profit. The IRS was nothing on the members who took me to task for every $1.00 expenditure on the monthly report.
"what was that 50cent misc. expense in supplies and why did you pay for it?"
I swear I was never so happy to pass on that job...
No one would willingly allow me to be the treasurer of anything. I survived high school algebra and managed to go through college without taking a single math class. Because that would have been the end of my college education.
So...
I salute you for volunteering in the first place and then having the perseverance to see it through THREE WHOLE VERY LONG YEARS.
I couldn't volunteer with anything that had to do with numbers. No way.
I didn't hear a laugh. But I'm struggling with these numbers, fancy giving me a hand?
Heh...oh, that was no laugh. More like a GUFFAW.
Glad you could finall PASS THE BUCK. Heh.
ohhh man, you're too nice! this is where i would be saying no....i'll pray for you.
Ugh what a pain! Why is volunteering at the school never what it seems?
I just agreed to be two treasurers and a secretary. Ouch.
Oh yeah, God DOES have a sense of humor. Of THAT, I truly Believe! I'd never, never volunteer for that kind of work. Ever. Lol. Good to you for passing the buck, so to say.
Oh you poor thing...you had to live through the I-990 rewrite?? I am SO sorry! My husband works a lot with those...
Our PTO got audited and threatened with fines, too! I guess they figure if they go after the little non-profit guy, there's no big lawyers there to bail us out like those great big companies who pay pocket change for their fines and back taxes.
Now I'm starting to wonder. . .
I was the treasurer of a tax-exempt organization for two years and never filed a form. . .
I was the treasure for our local mom's club. Definitely more paperwork than I expected (but I wasn't nice enough to do it more than one year..)
What a woman, and just be glad you survived to pass the baton to some unaware good Samaritan.
Thanks for droppin in and leaving a sweet comment. This farm chick lives for 'em. It doesn't take much to excite me.
Have a super day filled with blessings!!!
That's one job I never volunteered for. I was PTA president for four years in a row but you could NOT pay me enough to be treasurer.
Your mom?? You passed it on to your mom?
LMAO!
You naughty girl.
XOXO
Congratulations on your retirement!
Oh the best laid plans...I do not miss the days of school volunteer positions, especially those that have to do with numbers and money! Congratulations on surviving the minutia!
Three years? And one year no kid in the organization? Truly dedicated.
Cheers to you. Enjoy the retirement - and the drinks.
Oh dear - famous last words?
::clinking glasses:: Cheers!
I don't have a head for numbers, they would have fired me from the volunteer position ages ago. I contribute to my children's school... by combining soup labels. And praying for their teachers. Lord knows they could use the extras, lol.
Miss you somethin fierce.
Blessings, C~
Ugh----hate paperwork....how did you do it?
My friend Susan and I spent years volunteering for everything, and every single time, at some point I would ask her, "Why did we volunteer for this?" and the response was always, "Because we are the village idiots."
And also because we knew that nobody else would do it. Sigh.
It's wonderful that you volunteer even though there's so much paperwork and hassle. I'm sure the kids love you.
Treasurer is always the WORST position on any board. Three times the work and none of the love. just think of all the stored up good deeds you have now from doing this so you can be naughtier in the future. LOL
People like you are worth gilding and deserve a medal. On behalf of all others - thank you!
What job are you volunteering for next?
Oh my, you must be a very patient person!!!! :)
Yeah, and they're always after out public school accountings, too. They don't like that so many things are "General Fund"
IRS = no no no no fun. I would have to drink a gallon of vodka a day to endure.
you are so nice to do it for 3 years.
I took two tax law courses during law school. LEAST favorite of all time.
WOOO HOOOO, you're done!
and um...yeah, never do that again. Ever.
You are definitely a saint in my book....I volunteer but NEVER as the treasurer. I used to be a Girl Scout Leader and keeping the records for our individual troop was enough to make my hair go gray! UGH! :)
Boy, do I feel stupid. Whoever is laughing up there at you right now was really laughing at me then. I was a PTA president and I had to take care of the IRS junk. Man, that treasurer was slick. Did they not realize I was a just a figurehead prez? A warm body because NO ONE ever volunteers for being prez of the PTA in a middle school...unless they are promised that the job is easy peasy, no worries... and have the IQ of a rabbit? I still get letters from the IRS but now because I'm self employed. I really hate my boss.
I'm on the "Nominating Committee" for the Women's group at our church -just me and another lady -and boy, we've been having a heck of a time trying to find people willing to take one of the officer's positions. Well truthfully, we do have people lined up who will accept the presidency and treasurer's posts but can't find a soul willing to be VP and/or secretary! Any volunteers?
Congrats on freeing up some time in your life...what fun things are you going to fill it with?
You put your time in and then some!
You are so funny! Glad you got out!!! Just wanted to say hi
oh I hope you had a fabulous drink (or three) after handing off that job to someone else.
just say no!
just say no!
just say no!
Wonder what you'll get into next??? THREE years!??? Seriously? No wonder you're clicking your heels now!
I can see why you're reaching for the alcohol!
But that just means that you've got all this time on your hands for a new project....
Yep! I heard it!
What's that saying? No good deed goes unpunished?
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