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Secrets to Giving Your House Great Curb Appeal With the start of the spring home buying and home selling season less than two weeks away, This Old House offers tips on how to improve the first impression your home makes.Your Photocopier May be Spying on YouOne can get pretty jaded about old consumer issues over time, but every so often a new issue pops up that almost takes your breath away. Here it is: apparently some new photocopy machines have hard drives inside that retain copies of the pages they print. The problem arises if a search warrant is issued or when the machine is disposed of because someone could remove the hard drive and view its contents. So if you copied your 1040 tax form on that machine, someone could theoretically view your personal financial information as well as your social security number. Uggg, another thing to worry about.10 Things You Can't Deduct on your TaxesSome people get creative this time of year and make all manner of deductions from their taxes. Here 10 possible itemized deductions that you generally cannot take.
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