To start with, only some expenses are deductible. Medical expenses, but only if they exceed 8.5% or so of your adjusted gross income. Not clothing, unless it is clearly needed for work and not everyday clothes. Charity contributions, a few other things. The deal is, though, the standard deduction is so large these days that you need a huge amount in deductions before itemizing makes sense. If you're not paying mortgage interest and property taxes, it's hard for the average person to dig up enough in deductions to make it worth while. If are doing jointly, you need one 25000 in deductions before itemizing starts to make sense. It's how they simple tax filing a few years ago: they just gave everybody more in the standard deduction.

Never pay any bill before it is due, unless there is interest involved, and it's more than you're earning on the money.

I've had it fir a couple years. Works about 85-90% of the time.

This is why it pays to share such things BEFORE you act on them.   Wanting to kiss her feet is something most women can get used to with the right guy,  even if it's not particularly their thing.  Finding out about by waking up to you taking a leak on her is bad juju... if she wasn't going to be able to live with your desires, better to settle it now before you've invested years of your lives and THEN break up. Not that there is anything wrong with a little foot worship.