u/AngeMiao

Hi guys

Posting this here because I need Canadian recommendations!

I'm losing my mind trying to find pants that fit my son. He's almost 8, weighs 47lbs and is 48 inches tall. His waist is between a size 5 and 6 and his height is right at the beginning of size 7. He's currently wearing size 6 but the pants are getting too short and he's right at the max height for most of them (48 inches).

I've ordered size 7 pants from Old Navy/Gap and Walmart (since they have slim options and the inner button adjustment) and they're all humongous on him, even when I tighten them to the max. Also tried some pants from Costco and had the same problem (my mom works there so she literally bought every single pair of pants or combo that came with pants to try).

Where the heck can I buy him clothes? Do I need to go for girl's jeans?

I live in Quebec.

So my mother in law usually does our taxes using TurboTax. This year she was telling me that we owed $700 when we usually get back at least $5000. My income was higher (by 7k) but back in 2023 my husband claimed almost 40,000 in crypto gains so our income was 20k more and we still got back over 5,000.

I decided to try Wealth Simple myself since it's free and it let me upgrade to one of the paid versions through my work's RRSP and it's telling me that we're getting a refund over 10k. We have gotten back even more than that before, I just don't understand how it could be that off unless my MIL's stubborn refusal to play around with who claims who really makes that big of a difference.

For reference:

- I live in Quebec but my work is based in Newfoundland so I do a tax transfer

- Husband has a pension plan through his work

- My 7 year old son is autistic and eligible for the DTC (we receive the CDB and he has an RDSP)

- My younger son is in daycare which is almost 16,000 a year and we receive the advanced payments on the Quebec side

- My ASD son has school daycare and summer camp as additional childcare expenses

- I put $12,600 into RSPs

- I had $6,500 in medical expenses

- I have some T5s, T-5008s, T3 and RL-3 that I'm not sure that went in properly but all of them added up to like $56 so can't see that making a difference

I noticed that Turbo Tax didn't put any of the stuff we were claiming on the same person as Wealth Simple.

Childcare: TT put it on my husband for both. WS put it on my husband for federal (lower net income) and me for QC

Medical: TT put in on my husband for both. WS put it on my husband for federal and me for provincial

Disability Amount: TT put it on my husband and it doesn't look like any of it transfered to me. Wealth Simple let me pick so I put me and it ended up splitting the credits with my husband

Canada Caregiver Benefit: My mother in law didn't actually put this one into Turbo Tax but from what I understand I can claim it since my son since we receive the CDB and he's approved for DTC

Wealth Simple doesn't seem to give me the option to move anything around to see if it would give me the same number as TurboTax.

One thing I noticed was that on the Quebec side, it added together the amount of childcare I was allowed to claim for both kids before calculating the tax credit on my total amount which seems to have given me back more for my younger son's daycare since my older son is eligible to claim a much larger amount - that seemed to have to do with the form though and not the software. My younger son wasn't in daycare full time the year before so we didn't max out his portion so this might be normal

Mother in law is being "special" and won't let me click through TurboTax because "she's right" so I'm wondering if I should just submit the Wealth Simple one and not ask for the advanced refund. I'm mostly worried because I felt like it was too easy - it only took me an hour meanwhile she usually spends like 6+ hours on it. I've looked through it a million times and I don't see anything weird