Will be spending it mostly on breweries and restaurants that I want to be open after all this. Will donate a chunk to a food bank or something too
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The stimulus has 2 purposes though. The first and most immediate need, to help those dealing with the crisis, lost income, etc. Helping people feel more financially secure also probably helps people cope with the isolation. It also has a second purpose: injecting money into the economy.
If you feel secure in your finances and havent been that affected by this, and you feel like you don't 'deserve' the money, the best thing you could do would be to make sure that the money is used for the second goal. Use it to help the economy and spend it. Buy cards to help keep small businesses afloat while theyre closed. Once things open, spend some of that at higher levels than before the crisis.
Yeah I noticed after the post when the first person mentioned this. thanks. my bad.
It's not even a high horse, it's just stupid. Not taking the money and leaving it with the government isn't going to get more of it to people who need it more.
The suggestions from people here on how to distribute your money, if you feel you don't need it, are really great, so people should follow those suggestions if they're in that scenario.
Well, there was magically $2,900 in our account this morning so that's pretty much forcing us to take it.
Are these being reconciled on 2020 taxes? I claim my oldest every other year and 2019 was that year. Will I owe back the 500 for him when filing 2020 taxes?
All this is dependent on if they use my 2019 that I filed on Sunday. It’s 1000 dollar swing 2018 vs 2019 because we also had a second kid in 2019.
Im in the camp where they can’t tell me my status. Owed in 2018 and 2019 as well.
All this is dependent on if they use my 2019 that I filed on Sunday. It’s 1000 dollar swing 2018 vs 2019 because we also had a second kid in 2019.
Im in the camp where they can’t tell me my status. Owed in 2018 and 2019 as well.
Yes, I received it today. Are the dispensaries open in Illinois? Do they have stock?
I don't need mine but I'm sprinkling it around to different parts of the local economy through donations and getting occasional take out.
Imo that's a good use.
Actually, thinking about this again, that means someone somewhere probably is getting a deposit or check for 25¢. That would be hilarious.
Anybody else's make a high pitched whistling noise as the check was deposited and then immediately spent by their wife? Apparently she'd been sitting with almost $1300 worth of stuff in her Amazon cart waiting for it to arrive. I guess that's kind of local since we're 60 miles north of Seattle??? Our stimulus was $4400 since we have 4 kids, and over half of that is going to replenish savings after some unexpected medical expenses the last couple months.
Peloton here. It is a nice machine though i won’t use it as much as she will.
What I've been getting from Amazon is the message that non-essential orders that are fulfilled by Amazon will take a month or more for delivery. So we have been going directly to the supplier's website to order things. Even that might not help much as the suppliers are operating with reduced hours and staff and they warn of delivery delays.
However I ordered new cell phones from Sprint and they were delivered in one day. So delivery is very hit and miss depending on the company situation.
Morally I feel that the stimulus money is to be Spent-
This tightwad really wants to put it in Savings for a rainy day......but....
Church probably get some, food bank get some, order out to local Restaurant tomorrow night.
Might give $100 each to the kids to spend (strongly encouraging, for them to give part of it to church/foodbank/etc).
This tightwad really wants to put it in Savings for a rainy day......but....
Church probably get some, food bank get some, order out to local Restaurant tomorrow night.
Might give $100 each to the kids to spend (strongly encouraging, for them to give part of it to church/foodbank/etc).
