Not that it is surprising, but there are eight opportunities to spend money while completing the New Jersey tax return.

On page one, taxpayers are asked if we want to donate $1 of our taxes to the Gubernatorial Elections Fund. And just in case your spouse does and you don’t, there are separate checkoffs. Please.

For those of us who are overtaxed by the state, once we calculate how much the government owes us, we are presented seven selections on which to reduce our refund. Taxpayers can contribute to:

• N.J. Endangered Wildlife Fund
• N.J. Children’s Trust Fund to Prevent Child Abuse
• N.J. Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Fund
• N.J. Breast Cancer Research Fund
• U.S.S. New Jersey Educational Museum Fund
• Other Designated Contribution

Does anyone actually contribute to these things? Seriously.

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• Jersey Devil #48-Bonus Final - 2022
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• Traveling - 2022
• How do we overcome the loss and regret we feel after donating items so we don’t end up simply replacing them and repeating the cycle? - 2022
• New Kid (New Kid, #1) - 2021
• Tax Day - 2021
• Sagrada - 2020
• Ticket to Ride Playthrough - 2020
• Crack the Spine - 2019
• 50 Adventures: Make a Gaming System - 2019
• More Educational Leadership - 2018
• Bottoms Up - 2018
• 40 Years Left - 2017
• Best Friends 4ever - 2017
• The Green Box - 2017
• Eldora Overlook - 2017
• Waiting in Traffic… Trinity and Allison's first. - 2017
• Like Lakes or Ponds ? - 2017
• The Gus Memorial Geocache - 2017
• A Cache in Hand… - 2017
• End of the Trail…Almost - 2017
• Mom-Mom and Pop-Pops little house remembered - 2017
• West Creek Cemetery Cache - 2017
• An Easter Poem - 2015
• Smokey MacGregor - 2015
• National Volunteer Week - 2015
• Rechenka's Eggs - 2014
• It's Been a Day - 2014
• SRV & Jeff Beck - 2013
• Opening Day Ceremony - 2012
• Marlins vs. Phillies - 2011
• The Giving Tree - 2011
• Service Charges - 2010
• City Commission Health Insurance - 2010
• Not a Tea Drinker - 2009
• More Cowbell - 2008
• Feeling Proud - 2008
• Millville Walk - 2006
• Braves vs. Phillies - 2005
• Blue Ribbon Cache - 2004
• Pigs - 2004
• T-5 >Taming the Trail to Thompson's - 2004
• Saturn Rings - 2003
• Mansfield Township Community Park - 2003
• Rock The Cachebah - 2003
• Phillies vs. Braves - 2001
• Edie Brickell - 1989