How are you spending your Gov't Check?

When I do get the money, (Should be this week) I'm getting myself a suit. A replica suit of the one David Tennat wears in Doctor Who. Yeah it's goofy but damn if I don't want the thing.

I'm going to spend my government check the same way I spend it every month. Illegal drugs, cheap booze, and fast women. In reality though, I have to buy cribs for my future twins.

Responsibly. I'll be responsibly buying a new laptop battery and Rock Band.

I'm getting 1200 back, and it's all going towards property taxes.

$250 is going to joining an investment club a market-savvy friend of mine has started. The rest is probably just getting deposited as a cushion.

I'm fixing my car's transmission. Yay.

On the one hand, new iMac. On the other, Mesa Boogie guitar amp.

Pay off some of the debt accrued from my poor dog's ineffective ACL surgery.

I'd rather get an HD videocamera.

Mine is going towards a new television, seeing as though for the first time in my life I happen to have all my bills paid and I'm debt free. Plus, the 23' TV I've been using for the last four years is about to go the way of the Chuck Heston.

I'm only getting $600 back, but it's going right into the savings account I started to save up for the downpayment to buy a condo.

Paying the IRS back on the $3,000 back taxes bill they sent me this year.

I'm going to use a little for a weekend getaway with my wife, but the rest is going into the Tieman House Savings Account.

Mine already went to medical bills. Dammit!

I would love to blow it but I'm thinking about taking out a loan to get a car (cheap and used of course, I'm only a college sophomore) so I can go see my parents more often when they moved.

Of course some of it will be used to get that big special super duper Dirty Harry boxset first.

Medical bills. My wife had foot surgery and we need to pay the co-insurance and deductible amount. Now, if only these COB forms from the insurance company made any god damned sense I could figure out exactly how much we owe...

All on Big Brown at the Preakness.

Bills! Student loan bills, credit card bills (maybe I'll be able to pay down that card I used to buy a camera), cable bills, internet bills. These things add up and I just restarted work and it'd be nice to get a jump on all of them.

A steak dinner would be awesome, too.

I'm in Billylove's boat, but I'm curious, since this is supposed to be "economic stimulation" will they send a check anyway? Or should I expect it to go towards the "Chris made a bad choice in accountants a few years ago" fund?

New sofa and one of those giant chairs with matching giant ottoman.

The rest will either stay in savings or go towards a trip to NYC this summer.

Hey, I'm also spending it on medical bills! We should start a club! We'll call it America.

I also need new tires so I can drive to Chicago for Flashback Weekend in June.

It's my understanding that if you owe the IRS money, you won't see a check or a direct deposit. They'll apply the "stimulus" directly to your balance.

Me, I'm going to go in for airfare to Seattle with the kids and the Lady -- it's been over a year since I've seen Pop (Mom was here in Denver at Christmas time). The Lady will meet Dad, and then she and I will rent a car and go down to her family's condo on the coast of Oregon for a few days.

I figure this is the best use for the stimulus -- help prop up a failing industry (airlines).

Im taking their worthless paper money and buying real money...SILVER

[QUOTE=Blofeld]It's my understanding that if you owe the IRS money, you won't see a check or a direct deposit. They'll apply the "stimulus" directly to your balance.
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Poop I says.

Cutting my credit card bills in half. My goal is to pay 'em all off by end of summer.

I don't get a stimulus check, and that makes me sad.

Although apparently I make more money than all of you, and that makes me happy.

Paid a tax bill last month roughly equal to my rebate. Rebate = spent.

I'm using it to pay down my life debt.

It goes into my Vegas vacation budget. Double down!

Blackjack and hookers is a wise investment option, right? Cuz I'm totally doing that.

Was planning to buy a PS3 later this year. That purchase just got moved up to...now!

Ratty's Vegas Vacation eh?

*Cues Holiday Road scene*

Coke and whores

This works especially well if spoken outloud in character.

Got mine last week, already spent.

Indoor paint, outdoor goodies (flowers, decorations, gardening tools), paid off a couple of small bills, purchased some Randolph Scott DVD's for my mom (birthday is the 8th).

PS3'd.

If you put it in savings you are aiding the terrorists and then they ... WIN!

Also, aren't most institution just giving you a rate of .5% interest, which actually makes saving a less lucrative option than borrowing in the current situation?

Pay the back taxes I owe the State of Oklahoma so I can get my liquor license renewed so I don't lose my paying job in July. And some of it goes to my wife so she can get a new tattoo.

There are a few places (Sears off the top of my head) that are offering bonus incentives to spend your rebate money with them. Bring your rebate check or proof of your direct deposit and Sears will give you an extra 10%. Stretch that dollar!!

While a .5% return on your investment is tiny, when you borrow from a bank, you pay them a percentage, so it couldn't be "more lucrative", unless you found some sort of Superman 3 loophole, in which case, share.

What's more stimulating than hookers and blow?

Part of mine is going to cc debt, part to home improvements, and part to savings. I'm a high roller.

we had plans for out $1200 check...plans that involved a 3 day weekend trip to Vegas or Disneyworld...and then the wife had her car break down to the tune of $1149.84. Damn you, fate!!!!

[QUOTE=Eileen;2221718]Got mine last week, already spent.QUOTE]
What's the latest people are supposed to get the checks in the mail? I know they just started arriving, but what's the last date we should get them?
I have the bulk of my savings for the downpayment I'm saving up for (and what the $600 will go into) in an online account with ING. The interest is 3.3% or so for one of their lower-paying accounts, higher if you roll your money over into one of their CDs. The longer the CD, the higher the interest, so since I'm not anywhere near being ready to buy a home yet, I keep the bulk of my money rolled over into their 12-month ones. Actually, here was a happy accident - I called ING yesterday because I wanted to roll over another large portion of my savings account with them into a 3.30% CD. The guy mentioned that I had another CD which had matured in February, which I did nothing with. I said, "I know, sorry, I forgot to call you guys. What did you do with it - is the full dollar amount back into the savings account?" He says, "No - in the case of where you don't get in touch with us, we roll it over into another CD for you. So actually, you did very well - you didn't call us, so we put that dollar amount into a 3.50% CD." 3.50%! Just because I forgot to tell them otherwise. Sometimes it pays to have a brain fart. Not often, but in this case, yes.

We have a winner!

Investing in oil. If it's at $120 a barrel right now, I can't even imagine the return on my initial investment in three months or so - $160?

Hey, if you can't beat em (or at least convince them to stop using oil), might as well join em, Yando!

Donating it to the needy.

Nah, I'm just joshin', I'm buyin' a boatload of candy.

I think this whole "stimulus package" is a way to make up for the death of HD-DVD. Now everyone one can purchase a PS3 and go Blu.

Thank you Mr. President.