Your plans for your stimulous $$$?

[ToomuchStuff]

It is somewhat Ironic to me that "stimulus" money will be saved by a large number of people. Of the reasons, I have seen are:
How to spend it to stimulate the economy, when where I would spend it is closed.
Loss of job, so backup/food money.
Know we will have to pay it back later in reduced tax refund/owe the government.

Also seen a lot of buying gun/ammo talk.
I gave up making plans for money that I don't actually have. There are a few big things I could buy online, or several little things, but that certainly isn't going to help the economy locally, just places that are already open.

[catherine]

It is somewhat Ironic to me that "stimulus" money will be saved by a large number of people. Of the reasons, I have seen are:
Know we will have to pay it back later in reduced tax refund/owe the government.
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That's actually my reason..as a self-employed person, I have to keep up those quarterly estimated payments and they're not small. I might as well just hand the stimulus right back to the government. They're going to get it one way or the other.


ETA: Or maybe I'll just go to Hamilton. What happened to this little girl on Zoom is awesome!! (And I have an old lady crush on Lin-Manuel Miranda)

[SteveinMN]

@Alan, @Tradd, and @dmc, thank you for the info! Satisfies my curiosity.

[LDAHL]

We may invest whatever we get in gift cards for local restaurants in the hope it will help them survive.

[happystuff]

My shed is falling down - who knows what is living in it. I *might* get a shed, but the rest definitely saved.

[Teacher Terry]

When and if we feel safe traveling again we will spend it on that. For now savings. I am not going to waste it on spending for things we don’t need or want.

[ApatheticNoMore]

probably invest half, save half, unless I'm out of a job by then. We need to stimulate the economy etc. the thing about that is ALREADY DONE. I'm paying more for food, stocked up on food, bought a desk just to work at home etc. etc.. Money spent that wouldn't have been otherwise. But i scraped that out of a regular old paycheck somehow squeezing it tightly Ok maybe less spent on everything that wasn't corona, less saved that wasn't auto-save etc..

What am I really supposed to do buy a bunch of cr@p and overtax what I feel is an already overloaded postal (fedex / amazon etc.) distribution system? Amazon warehouse workers are collapsing as is from an overwhelming volume. Now it's not like I never use Amazon at all, alright, I do and have slightly more than usual, but I'm not going to spend it on a bunch of cr@p. If it was just an ordinary recession and I was doing alright financially myself, ok maybe I'd buy a little something, but now, nah. Maybe buy food.

[Yppej]

My head tells me save, but I am tempted to spend a couple hundred on mulch from a mom and pop business. I can't do much other than work in the yard.

[beckyliz]

Pay our taxes. :-/

[Molly]

Major car repairs