Other Providers T/S%

[kendallina]

I am at 18% for TS%. I only have children here 3-4 hrs a day, but do a lot of prep work and such for the preschool.

[Jewels]

Yeah Its only like hlaf hour, but it adds up over the year, every minute counts.

[ninosqueridos]

I add up all of my hours I spend on daycare activities, calc sq ft of the rooms I use, etc and input everything into TurboTax Home & Business. I was open all year, full-time, and my T/S it calculated was 29.33%.

[legomom922]

I had 40% for last year, and this year so far in MMK I am at 43%. I think alot of people just don't record everything, you can even record the time you spend unloading groceries, (learned this in toms seminar), Folding blankets or bedding for daycare, I clean pretty obsessively everyday, I always wash all the toys played with everyday, and I vacuum and clean all of my floors everyday. My first child starts at 6am, and last one leaves at 5:45....

I am somewhat OCD, so I clean my floors & vaccum everyday after kids are gone too! I cannot stand a dirty floor, and we have 4 cats, so I vaccum every am so the kids dont get alot of cat hair on them & I have to vaccum after they go to pick up all the cheerios and crumbs, LOL

So how much time are cleaning b4 & after you close?? I'm curious, because I am at about 13 hrs a wk, and I dont know if that is too much. The IRS could be like hey we are not going to allow this because you have OCD, KWIM??

[legomom922]

Yeah Its only like hlaf hour, but it adds up over the year, every minute counts.

Are you claiming bring in ALL your groceries, or just DC groceries? If you shop for both, personnal & DC, how do you detrimine how much time is for DC? Or are you just estimating? I'm just wondering because I do all my shopping together and dont know what to claim, plus the time of putting the groceries away too. Then there are some items that I use for both, like crackers and stuff that anyone can eat, my kids and DC kids.

[TomCopeland]

Shopping time

Are you claiming bring in ALL your groceries, or just DC groceries? If you shop for both, personnal & DC, how do you detrimine how much time is for DC? Or are you just estimating? I'm just wondering because I do all my shopping together and dont know what to claim, plus the time of putting the groceries away too. Then there are some items that I use for both, like crackers and stuff that anyone can eat, my kids and DC kids.

You can't count any time spent away from your home shopping for food (or anything else). You can count time preparing menus, shopping lists, and unloading the food. If you are unloading and putting away both business and personal food, count some of the time, not all of it. Estimate it.