Get boring but necessary tasks done online

Lifehacker:  We are all busy, busy people. However, we've all got necessary grown-up tasks that usually end up on the bottom of our to-do list because they have something to do with bureaucratic red tape—whether that be renewing your driver's license or passport or getting your mail held or forwarded when you vacation or move. Instead of physically showing up and waiting in line like a sucker, you can get a ton of these things done completely online.

Renew stuff

Get information about renewing your driver's license, title registration, tag updates, etc. at the Renew Your Driver's License page. For the most part, you're still going to have to shuffle down to your local DMV—but forewarned is forearmed. The more you can get together before you have to go there, the better. Some tasks, such as vehicle registration renewal, can be accomplished completely online (this will vary by state).

You can also renew your passport online; first-timers will have to go in person, however.

Mail

You can change your address online with the Official USPS change of address form. You can also have your mail forwarded, have your redelivered if you missed it the first time. Want to buy stamps? You can do that online, as well as get completely free packing supplies for your eBay business.

Money matters

You can purchase electronic securities directly from the US Treasury, as well as convert your paper savings bonds.

What about Social Security? Pretty much all you need is at the Top Ten Requested Services from Social Security Online.

You don't necessarily have to pay money to file your taxes; you can do it for free at IRS e-File, as well as look at a comprehensive site map of everything taxes.

Forms

Hate telemarketers? Register online at the National Do Not Call Registry.

Register to vote with the National Voter Registration Form; this enables you not only to you know, vote, but also to avoid those long lines at City Hall the day before an election.

In addition, there's the ginormous Forms.gov, which pretty much holds every form you will ever possibly be required to fill out for anything remotely official-ish in your lifetime. You can browse an A-Z index of agencies or actual form names; there's also a good list of the most frequently used forms for instant clickability.

Misc

There's so much you can accomplish online that otherwise is a gigantic pain in the tookus, such as:

• Find a flu shot clinic
• Purchase a national parks pass
• Find and reserve a campground
• Find a Head Start program
• Find a TON of legit government auctions

Wendy Boswell, Lifehacker's Weekend Editor, tries to accomplish everything even remotely possible online. Subscribe to her feature series Technophilia using the Technophilia feed.

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