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Survey: How Is Your Family Spending Your Economic Stimulus Check?

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Has yours arrived yet? Ours hasn't, but that hasn't stopped our fantasizing about how we might spend this cash boon. Take the survey below to share how you're spending your wad.

Haven't decided how you're going to spend it yet? Reader Karen wrote in with a suggestion. She and her husband created a website, stimulateminds.org, to use their tax rebate to help public schools. So there's a thought.

(Image via: Milk Your Money.)

Comments (20)

what stimulus check??

posted by rosebud on 2008-05-08 11:41:03
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New Refridgerator...once we get the check that is ;)

posted by me-n-dj on 2008-05-08 11:46:51
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Summer school tuition and a new grill. Also, our daughters will have their birthdays soon and we will use this to buy some nicer than usual presents from Nova Natural.what i wish I could do with it is get a new dining table, but alas it is not meant to be.

posted by sar3j on 2008-05-08 11:51:26
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We actually don't qualify for it, so no money for us. Boo. Otherwise, we would probably just reinvest it for college or retirement savings.

posted by schnappycat on 2008-05-08 11:56:58
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Washer and dryer for our new home! : )

posted by liveoak on 2008-05-08 12:03:03
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My husband plans to give it to Channel 13 this year - we could use it but he is so opposed to the idea of the consumerism behind it that he wants to give it to public programs that have struggled under GWB.

posted by oteach1 on 2008-05-08 12:14:33
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The stimulus check invalidates my reason for copping out of my husband's family reunion.

posted by KelleyR on 2008-05-08 12:17:29
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Ugh, the totally unfun bills. I would've loved to have put it towards fun stuff but this whole grown-up thing sucks big ass.

posted by tgray99 on 2008-05-08 13:04:38
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Paying down loans! Not fun, but the prospect of saving on monthly interest is appealing.

posted by AmberM on 2008-05-08 16:10:57
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We're going to put it away and sit on it for a rainy day.

posted by genxmom on 2008-05-08 16:14:36
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daycare. sigh.

posted by pyjammy on 2008-05-08 16:17:46
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Rent.

posted by sciencegeek on 2008-05-08 16:29:26
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North Carolina, here we come!

posted by AKB2003 on 2008-05-08 18:32:57
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We used it to pay our taxes.

posted by heps on 2008-05-08 18:49:13
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tuition at community college for my oldest...nice-give us a rebate with one hand while swiping student aid with the other

posted by kato on 2008-05-08 18:54:11
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we're going to save it for time off when the baby comes.

posted by stephanie.patenaude on 2008-05-08 20:23:17
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we got audited this year, like everyone else in NYC, so ours is going right back to where it came from. Thank you very much....

posted by deni at ME on 2008-05-08 20:29:02
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When he first came out with this idea it was supposed to be so that we can splurge on something and stimulate the economy. Now, in just a few short months, it seems that most people are looking forward to their check to pay off debts or get something they need. Now people can afford a little more gas. This money is going to stimulate the economy of the oil companies and those people like him.

posted by funstraw on 2008-05-09 08:40:57
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If we were getting one, I'd probably sock it away in a bank account for when our kids have to repay the money. The money didn't come out of nowhere - there will be increased taxes or government spending cuts to make up for it somewhere down the line.

My money is on higher taxes.

posted by Kaz on 2008-05-09 09:28:20
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Economic stimulus check? Aww, man. Today is not a good day to be Canadian.

posted by Kat81 on 2008-05-09 16:19:02
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