What would you spend your $800 "stimulus package" on?

I need to stimulate brakes and tires on my car.

i LIKE em.

but I will probably save my advance so that I can pay it back next year. (Assuming they are doing the same bait-and-switch they did last time).

oh come on, someone had to, might as well be me

me blind. Peace, Kim

Or cheap booze and a hooker, as long as my wife didnt mind.

So tires it is.
:bounce:

I need to stimulate the battery in my car and our food budget.

Although there was a time, in my salad days, when I would have spent it on booze and a quarter oz. of Peruvian Flake. And aspirin. Lots of aspirin.

A time past that I do not mourn. ;-)

Hillary's General Election Campaign !

which I am planning to buy but have been putting off.

I will probably owe like $500 in taxes this year.

hubby gives me all the stimulation I need/want. I think using the fake paper money and turn it into real gold has a nice appeal. And who said fairy tales don't come true.:spray:

Won't that be stimulating?

Some people say that stuff doesn't work, but by golly I'm not convinced! Smiling Bob wouldn't lie to me!

for the Missus just in case:evilgrin:

with something that has Horny Goatweed in it.

buy a lot of cardboard for $800.

outside the box:rofl: I couldn't resist the low hanging fruit. Sorry.

--I resent being called a low hanging fruit ;)

as a 'seasoned' woman-I'm here to tell you that all our fruits hang lower over time-transgender or not.:spray:

but the car is more important.

I can live in the car, but I can't drive the apartment. :P

If I were American.

It won't pay the entire increase, but it will help.

sadly, will probably have to give it all back in 2009... just like *s last LOAN to us in 2001!!!!!

Since the IRS will probably come calling for it later, like they did with the last "rebate".

sw

Maybe I'll finally have some discretionary cash that I could use to hire someone to come here once a week so that I can get a break and get some shit done!

Last time I donated mine to an abortion rights organization.

.........after I paid the heating oil bills for this winter.

:hi:

It was over $800. Well over.

Don

I got a set of regular tires for $250 and I could get high performance tires for under $400. They don't advertise and tax is low there. I think that leaves enough for brakes, I hope so.

I think they were over a hundred bucks a piece themselves.

Don

I hope I don't need those.

that or the green bud

This country is run by morons.

I remember everyone even lame geting one (were just dating then). I guess being a single working class mom with a disabled child at home did not qualify. I still think bush read my e-mails or maybe he did'nt like the tone of my letters to him regarding health care and tax cuts to the wealthy.

the last time and I was a single working Mom too. Fortunately my kid is able bodied. It is my fault....I should have put that kid to work but I didn't have the airfare to get her to a third world country sweat shop.

You know, like that leave no child behind thingy. They thought we would just spend it on food or some other frivolous item, that would not generate taxes for them.

:(

if it comes before September

x(

a new wardrobe...

It'd be a mix of the sensible and the "let's live for today".

:hi:

:hi:

Sorry, I'm not making anybody a "man".

If the chaps comment was innuendo on your part, that is...

Now if you wore them in my honor...

:hi:

That would be a 25% down payment.

I'm very doubtful that I will get anything. If I do, it will be a darn sight less than $800. Whatever I get, if anything, they will demand back next year. All that said, if any money actually ends up in my pocket, I'd like to use it for tuition. But will probably have to use it to pay utilities.

I think everyone got two hundred or something like that back in the late 90's. I got zip,zilch,zero. I thought it was because bush read my e-mails. How many here got that re-bate? I want mine with interest.

just curious, I could have used it with a disabled child at home and insurance didn't cover everything.

Much to my disgust.

I had to pay for the first time. I moved to another state, took a pay cut, and was a single working mom, and ended up owing for the first time ever in my life......I knew it was a foreshadowing of things to come. And while I did hold Bush in contempt then-it is not with the open contempt I do now.:eyes:

and some extra magazines if there is anything left over.

I've had it with Kansas City's third-rate public transportation system.

... and sent the White House an effusive letter thanking them for allowing me to contribute to women's reproductive freedom.

I need to think of something to do with the $800, so I can send Georgie another letter (for my permanent file!) and thank him for something that would annoy him. Hmmmm

Or, maybe I'll get my Henry Ossawa Tanner poster framed ... finally!

I'd hold onto it until something bad happens and I need to use it.

You know - no kids, no spouse - I don't really count according to this government.

I'm so sick of the built-in penalties in this society for being single. It's not just the government. It's other people and employers, too.

How many times have I had to work on holidays and had people say to me, "Well, it's okay for you to work on the holiday because you don't have a family." What? I do too have a family - it's just not the same type as yours. And if I didn't have a family, how would that mean I didn't deserve a holiday off?

I used to work for a company that frequently had to transfer people to other cities. It is a pain to transfer to another city when you are single - no one to help you make arrangements, help you pack your household, keep you company in the strange new place, no one to wait for the cable guy while you go to work, etc. etc. And yet, the line was always, "Well it's easier for you to transfer, you don't have a family." So, because I'm single I somehow deserve to have my life turned upside down? Repeatedly?

And of course there is always the matter of taxes. They talk about a marriage penalty, but we've always had to pay more.

Especially when I see so many people who are married and shouldn't be and/or have children and shouldn't. And I'm the "irresponsible" one??!?

Or, I could be sensible and invest it somewhere safe so that it will earn some interest until the gov'mint asks for it back.

against your tax refund from next year. I do not ever receive a tax refund. I always have to pay, so I don't want to pay taxes, plus repay the rebate.

and I haven't bought or smoked any in 25 years

I was going to pay off bills and buy a rifle, now I'll pay off bills or buy a rifle.

beings as we're new grandparents and with our house remodel on our hands. But beings as it probably will only be a loan on next years taxes, ie the last one, you can bet it will be spent as if it was money we borrowed and paying interest on, nothing else.

I think lord pissypants was in the ME to assure his friends there that the 5% drop in gasoline retailer sales would be made up. By giving working people cash his pupeteers know they will use that money for their most immediate need. Gas.

...REAL stimulating.....:eyes:

Are these guys for real?

$300/per person is going to reinvigorate the economy? On what fucking planet?

I'll probably use it to pay part of last year's taxes. I guess the rest I'll have to get from my ever-dwindling IRA.

The Food Stamp increase would have helped me more, to be honest. There are no taxes with Food Stamp purchases.

For sure! Pay that shiz off so I can save money!

nt