Top 3 stimulus-check destinations? Gas, groceries, debt

Source: MarketWatch)

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Consumers pinched by soaring prices for gasoline, granola and green grapes are increasingly looking at their stimulus checks as a means of making ends meet for at least a month or so.

A growing number of consumers told pollsters in at least three separate surveys recently that they will use the money the government is sending them in coming weeks to pay down debt, fill up the family car and stock the kitchen pantry.

That smacks at the government's objective to kindle economic growth with frivolous spending on electronics, clothing or a night out on the town. More important, however, is that it underscores the incredibly tight financial condition many Americans are finding themselves in as prices for day-to-day living expenses reach unparalleled levels.

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What goes around comes around.
:shrug:

I'm self-employed and the payment is due in June.

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But, as my husband says whenever I complain that any money we get goes directly down the drain (car repairs, medical bills, etc)-- "Well, at least we got it to pay it!"

There's some wisdom in that

poised to go over $4 for the first time.

stimulus checks we're paying off a note and catching up on our house payments. We're back to living week to week again.

at a UK uni! Take that, uncle sam!

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It was just a placebo. They knew it wouldn't do anything because it never has in the past. They just wanted to look like they were doing something.

n/t

I'm going to throw it in with my investments so I can give it back when it comes due w/interest.

Doctors Without Borders, I think.

and pad the pockets of the oil companies.

Broken car window mechanism. $420 for a few plastic parts to raise and lower the thing, and putting them in. But for the tool to remove the door handle, I could have done the work myself. Of course, the auto manufacturer made sure that little tool is hard to find- except at their dealership.

:grr:

and a visit to a pot clinic!

and the "stimulus" check will cover about half of the work I need done. The fabled Streets of San Francisco are like driving the Baja 500.

that up last week. That was $293. So there goes half of my check.