My $600 is going straight into savings... take that Ben Bernanke!
I already spent mine on a PS3, blu-ray's, and pot. The rest is for a gun and some other shit I want but do not need.
It's going into savings. Stimulate that, Bush!
I am saving it all...
Paying off the student loans baby.
But if I have a sudden irresponsible impulse I might just go on vacation. Who knows? With $600 bucks the possibilities are endless.
I'll have to check with my Chinese lender and get back to you on how much of a loan they're "giving" us ...
Our stimulus will be directed towards my gigantic dental bill, and tickets to Virginia Beach for a wedding in June. Good times!
However, I kind of wish we weren't getting it because it seems pretty ridiculous. Also, even though we filed jointly, due to my incredibly tiny paychecks from working on campus, I will be recieving back approximately 60% of what I made. WTF? Why are you giving me literally hundreds more than was taken out in taxes?
iphone.
You're missing one option.
Ours is going to pay down our credit card debt for the roof we had to buy in January.
I thought it was a tax rebate. "Stimulus payment" sounds like a laxative.
i will spend $400 on prescription drugs and the rest on gas.
USA! USA!
Frantikgirl, you should be saying "take that Henry Paulson". and even then, putting it in the bank is not going to give you a return above inflation. I havent seen a CD rate around 4% for a few months now.
and even then, the stimulus cheques might actually contribute to inflation. if they arent spent they will simply add reserves to the banks who need them. but is this really in the best interest of the nation which needs a long overdue correction of prices?
on the other hand my ETF portfolio picks are slaying it today.
A trip to Canada. heh.
Debt card
Our $1500 will go towards 15 minutes of a 3-way with a 5-diamond hooker. We'll need to find a sitter.
Mine is probably going straight to my credit card bill or for groceries or gas. survival, y'all.
Two words: Soybean Futures.
Our $1200 will probably go toward a new computer, since mine is being repo'd by work when I quit.
My $600 is going into either a bond index fund or a foreign currency CD. Sorry, US economy.
My rebate should be $600 for myself and $300 for one child for a total of $900, all of which will go towards a credit card, assuming it's not paid off by then by some other means.
Hooray for prodigious breeding. I'm expecting $2100, and it's all going to pay off debt.
I paid over $2000 in taxes so $600 isn't such a big gift.
I'm sending it to the Democrats, probably $500 to Obama and $100 to Darcy or maybe to Al Franken in MN.
Plane ticket to Portugal.
I think I'll blow mine on poker.
im putting mine into my fidelity account and buying some more ETFs. or going on a trip to mexico. NCO FTW!
Lusty Lady.
I'm giving it to charities; this money was stolen from poor people, after all.
At least $500 to paying down credit card debt, $100 I'll probably use for general extra cash flow.
My $300 is going straight to my credit card to help pay off my new MacBook.
Some to a credit card payment and the rest to savings.
Going toward my Visa bill.
$350,000 last year. Fucking stock options.
Since I have to pay about $800 in taxes, the $600 is just going back to replenish my poor little savings account.
Credit card debt. Or rent.
Add another one to the credit card bill column.
a rent boy who looks just like tsm. or Mr. Poe.
Boo-fucking-ho nbc. Get a better Sunday night lineup!
Our $1800 is already in the budget, which I guess means it gets split roughly equally among mortgage, food, day care, medical, and 'everything else'.
I'm getting $600. But as Washington Mutual Bank laid me off in December, it will be going towards my extended vacation fund.
We won't spend the money on anything. It will go where all our excess money goes - into our savings and/or investment accounts.
Not sure how much I'll be getting, but either way, the money is going to a Mexico vacation in November.
USA! USA!..wait..MEXICO! MEXICO!
If you're gay and have kids and a stay-at-home partner, you're FUCKED, cuz you only get half, since you're considered head-of-household instead of married, EVEN IF YOU'RE FUCKING MARRIED. Thanx to Bill ("Re-elect me! I signed DOMA!") Clinton and Senator Patty ("I voted for DOMA!") Murray.
$600 to pay off the credit card....how depressing.
Depending on when I get it- either going to hawaii, san fran or telluride. Depends on timing, and whos where when. I cant wait.
I'm donating my check to Hillary or Obama. I can't decide.
I'm getting $600 and it's all going into savings. Even my conservative, Republican father thinks the stimulus package is a dumb idea.
Art and Gay Porn.
$1000 to savings, $800 for things we've neglected (home maintenance, oil change for the car, new clothes - I haven't bought a shirt in four years). So I guess we'll be doing almost half our part toward stimulating the economy.
You should give it to Barack Obama for President 2009 - HA! Take that Bush!
boy, Poe sure knows how to stretch a dollar...
I'm with the pay down CC debt crowd. Although I will probably allocate $120 for 1/4 of an ounce of, uh, medicine.
$1200 on anyone playing against the Sonics...
I'm going to take my stimulus package check and give it back to the IRS. The whole thing is a joke, we give you a rebate against the taxes you will pay in 2008 in the hopes that we can keep the economy afloat until after the election. Does this fix any of the problems we have now? No? If this actually does buy the economy some time will Congress use this time productively to address structural problems in our tax code and regulatory systems? Probably not. Given this, if you have the option, why not just tell Congress, the Administration and the banks to fuck off and just give the money back to the government or put it in savings or do anything but spend it.
I'll believe it when I see it. I pay a lot of taxes. I should buy a house in the woods, or wherever it is I can afford one.
$600. Prolly home improvement/repairs. Gotta see what the boyfriend wants to do, though, cuz he lives with me. Knowing him, it'll be tattoos.
Credit card debt and schooling (MSED). Suck it, economy!
Mahtli69 stole my joke, so I guess I'll have to go with "credit card bill".
Retainer on a bankruptcy attorney.
I'll be using it to stimulate the economy in Ireland when I'm there on vacation.
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Me gots a lot back this year.
Mine is going to the student loan people.
I'm with the credit card bill folks, though a vacation is tempting. I'll try not to think about schools with crumbling roofs and outdated textbooks while riding Splash Mountain.
Any other year, I'd be getting the full $600. But since I chose to quit my office job and travel the world last year, no stimulation for me.
If I *were* getting something, I'd promptly donate it to one of the many non-profit organizations that have had their funding slashed by the Bush team. When the economy suffers, their funding suffers, AND more people are in need of these community safety nets, so those most in need are left doubly screwed.
What I'd like to do is buy five and a-half barrels of light sweet crude - seems to be about the only thing these days guaranteed to increase in value.
Paying back my sister for part of the loan she gave me to buy a house 6 years ago (almost done with the debt!).
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