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US-Era, what are you planning to do with your $600 stimulus bucks?
- Thread starter Earvin Infinity
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You have no idea what you're talking about.
Paying down debt is exactly what the federal government does NOT want you to do with stimulus.
Probably nothing right now. I'm still staying with my family until mid next month, and I get paid on Friday anyways so my rent is already covered.
They want you to buy a PS5? Or a 3080? Or a TV? And provide stimulus to industries making record profits because of the pandemic?
The intent is to allow you to spend and stimulate demand thereby hopefully increasing jobs... so on and so forth. So you buy food from restaurants and grocery stores. Clothing or other goods from small businesses. Services from the electrician, plumber, gardener, etc... From locations and/or industries that actually could benefit from recovery and growth. If not, then you donate to a group or individual or charity who will. Are people in debt and/or jobless going to be able to do that before paying rent, bills, dinner on the table, kids' daycare?
If you think the government is giving you $600 to hit F5 a couple hundred times on Amazon.com to buy a PS5 when the next shipment comes in, then god help us all.
We are in line for roof repairs (roofing companies around here are backlogged to hell) after Hurricane Sally so we are hoarding every extra dime we have till we see if they will be over estimate or not incase our insurance payout isn't enough to cover everything. If we have cash left over its going to pay off credit cards. After thats done saving for a new PC.
I'm gonna do what Mike Bloomberg should have done with his campaign money. Everybody will have roughly $2 if my math checks out and I'm sure it does.
Sliding scale eating much of mine but pondering what to do. There is a bar that I dearly miss frequenting. Thinking about breaking down to gift cards for all the employees. I'm sure someone else needs it more but most of them are hustling multiple jobs.
I can always throw it into savings but I honestly feel guilty about receiving anything. Yeah I know it's my tax money to begin with.
I can always throw it into savings but I honestly feel guilty about receiving anything. Yeah I know it's my tax money to begin with.
I'll agree a little bit with the idea that people should think about spending checks locally at small businesses on some nice luxuries, but I'm not sure shaming people on an enthusiast gaming forum for buying video game hardware is the right approach. The onus to help people struggling due to Covid-19 (and in general) should fall on our federal government who has done an absolutely piss poor job helping people during a time where certain industries cant effectively operate, not people making less than $75,000 a year. If people are in a position to help I think that's great but I don't think it's appropriate to shame people who choose to spend there's on something nice during a pandemic where people are basically mentally suffering across the board.
Don't short change yourself. Everyone is eligible to do cocaine. You might have a heart attack or need to go to the hospital but the American Medical Association says that coke is a family friendly drug and only warns that kids under 5 not bump rails.
They suggest rubbing the coke on their gums slowly and in small doses until they have the motor skills to blast noise candy.
I had some unexpected car trouble around Thanksgiving last month that put a damper on my holiday finances; a $600 stimulus windfall would go some ways towards alleviating that.
I'm lucky that I don't necessarily need it for something like Rent or Food, so it's going straight to credit card bill.
Ouch, I hope everything with the surgery went well. I got so lucky when I had mine, happened a few months before I got out of the Air Force, and was covered fully by the military.
Here's hoping for a quick recovery.
As for my $600, I'm probably going to see it to pay off my phone (owe $425). We're both still working, so we're doing good financially.
Figure I'll just drive that bill down.
The remainder I'll put on one of my credit cards.
Wife and I are ineligible, but it seems we should get $1200 for our two kids. We are saving for new carpet. Super fun.
I'm covered on grad student insurance just a bit of a nasty surprise over the weekend, glad you and I got it sorted out.
That's what makes appendectomys so much fun, isnt it. The surprise.
Mine was the difference between getting a $27,000 separation bonus and an honorable discharge vs no separation bonus and a general discharge (general means no benefits like the GI Bill). It couldn't have happened at a better time, tbh.
Although, I'm getting screwed now because I have to repay that $27,000 back before I receive my monthly payments from the VA for my service connected issues (would be about $485 a month).
It's bullshit.