Crunching numbers
I’ve conquored the quarterly tax filing for our business. Not only that, but I conquored it so handily that I don’t need to dread it next quarter. That’s very relieving.
While I was hitting my head against bookkeeping, I did a thorough analysis of our current financial state. That was both frightening and reassuring depending on which angle I looked at it.
I’ve come away from all this number crunching with a calm assurance that somehow or other we’re going to make this cartooning thing work for us. I can’t explain how it will work, but it will. It seems fitting that since we began this endeavor with faith we should continue in the same way. I’ve also regained a clear vision of our need to economize. Halloween needs to cost us $10 or less. Thanksgiving comes out of the food budget, but needs to be planned for. Christmas cannot come to more than $200 and I’d like to be able to do it for half of that.
Not so long ago those numbers would have looked impossible to meet, but now I’m pretty sure I can do it. We have been greatly blessed to be able to accomplish so much with so little. We have been even more greatly blessed to be able to have Howard working as a cartoonist full time.