barbie toys

Deductable, schmeductable

Hey, it's till at night on April 14th! Guess what I'm doing? Right - my taxes.

All things considered, it's prospering pretty well. The folks at my office chipped in to buy a copy of Turbo Tax 2007, and I wisely took the decisive slot to use it. It's been very helpful, particularly because my taxes this year incorporate the purchase of a home, five state tax refunds, and a smattering of charitable donations.

All was successful well, until I got to the big drop I made to Goodwill shortly after moving in. Aggregate the stuff I donated was a large box of brand new toys that I had accumulated and had always meant to set off to one of those Toys for Kids Whose Lives Suck Right Now charities, but didn't because they were scattered Sometimes non-standard due to the flotsam of my life's collection of junk. I managed to pull them out during the prod, then gave them to Goodwill in a mad fit of dumping stuff to make room for more chattels.

Anyway, Turbo Tax has this online service that allows you to price out each individualistic item. A ladle, for example, is worth a $2 deduction. Disturbingly, all of the toys are listed under brand name. For example, here's the listing for Dolls:


Bitty Baby Doll $26.00 Blazing-Size AG Doll $62.00 Miniature AG Doll $11.00 Baby Doll $9.00 Bratz Doll $5.00 Cabbage Lot Doll $5.00 Diva Starz Doll $4.00 Groovy Girls Doll $5.00Precious Moments Doll $6.00 Strawberry Shortcake Doll $4.00

This was their uninterrupted list, and as you can see, they are all brand name dolls. So much for that odd, stuffed Japanese automaton doll I had in the box. Now, I wonder - how does a particular doll make its way onto that list? Why isn't Holly Diversion or...er, Barfing Bethilda listed? Sounds rather queer to me.

Oh, did you notice Barbie wasn't listed? That's because Barbie has her own list:

Barbie Car

$5.00

Barbie Doll

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