Alexandra Baig, CFP®Apr 17, 20195 min"Thunk! I could have had a tax break!"These days, we’d probably say that even the low-sodium variety had too much salt but in the good ol’ days, there was a vegetable drink wi...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Apr 9, 20194 minThe Reality of RiskI had an excellent time at the Chicago Autism Connection’s Spring Fling resource fair, this past Saturday. There was an excellent panel ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Apr 3, 20195 minStress less with these tax tips:My son, who introduces these blogs a lot, is a big fan of Subway® restaurant. Since it caters to meat-lovers and vegetarians, can be fou...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Mar 27, 20194 minTax Filing Might Find Cash!A cartoon fairy god-person, holding a clipboard, hovers over a man holding a briefcase and says: “After Federal, State and Local taxes, y...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Mar 21, 20196 minWhat does this Social Security thing do?My son’s latest mission is to collect car parts. This might be because he has an almost-eleven-year-old’s confidence that if he collects...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Mar 13, 20195 minHave Your Money and Use It, TooIn a cartoon, there was a rather large gentleman, wearing a hodgepodge of household gadgets connected by wires stands happily in front of...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Mar 6, 20195 minWhen Two Rules CollideIn 2014, Fox aired The Simpsons Guy. Extra credit if you can tell me which two dysfunctional, mildly obnoxious cartoon families starred ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Feb 28, 20195 minBuck Up! Take the First Step Into the Disability Services Maze.One of the minor characters in the recent Sony Pictures animated film Peter Rabbit is a buck. As with the other anthropomorphic animals ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Feb 22, 20195 minToo Much of a Good Thing?“Too much of a good thing…” is primarily used to describe an abundance of something that has crossed the line from being beautiful, pleas...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Feb 12, 20194 minAvoid a Benefits "Traffic Jam"I finally, recently learned how to add the “traffic” view to my Google Maps display. This is supposed to show me, in real time, the vehi...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Feb 7, 20194 min"You are here!" in the government benefits mazeI was in the mall with my son recently, trying to remember which of the dozen sports shoe stores had the one pair of Mom-would-need-a-sec...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jan 28, 20196 minKnow the Inner Workings of your Life Insurance PolicyInner Workings is the Disney animated short that preceded Moana in the theaters. The film depicts an office worker who needs to use bot...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jan 22, 20194 minThe 800-pound Medicaid GorillaThere is an old children’s joke: “What does an 800-pound gorilla get to eat?” Answer: “All it wants to.” Despite the well-documented fa...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jan 15, 20195 minIs it a Tree or Four Elephants?One of my all-time favorite Sesame Street characters—even now—is “Lefty”, the fast talking, trenchcoat-wearing street salesman. In one e...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jan 10, 20195 minTaxes: What could be simpler?“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” is a quote, popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin (althou...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jan 3, 20194 minBuild Your Best TeamNFL Coach Firings: Who’s gone, openings and candidates (January 2, 2019, 10:31 AM). Meet the 2019 Draft Quarterback Class: Everything you...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Dec 18, 20185 minIs there a magic Number for funding my Special Needs Trust?The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life (by Lee Eisenberg, and not to be confused with a ridiculous tw...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Dec 13, 20184 minHurry Up and WaitThe Wall Street Journal on 12/11/18 had a fun story on the creativity of pet tortoises, particularly when it comes to escaping their encl...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Dec 3, 20184 minTwo Outa Three Ain't Bad!Some of you may have seen a clichéd-but-true sign that someone posted on LinkedIn a few days ago. It reads: We have three kinds of servi...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Nov 27, 20184 minJust what is "Spend down," anyway?Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same thing. It means that everyone gets what they need. –Rick Riordan (1964- ), author of ...