Here's a question for American taxpayers:

[randomness]

What will you be doing with your economic stimulus check? Mine arrived on Saturday, and I just deposited it.

(Please answer in the comments.)

Comments

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Mine was direct deposited on Friday. It's going toward buying a new digital camera.

[muffyjo]

buying a corset for a wedding.

[mangosteen]

80% went into savings.
20% is going to small house furniture/accessory purchases.

[redbird]

I was thinking of taking Susie Bright's suggestion and spending it on sex toys, but it may just go into the bank account along with the rest of the tax refund, and be spent on ordinary things like electricity and maybe some new shirts.

[nafe.livejournal.com]

I will be sending it to the very nice people over at American Express.

[choirsoftheeye.livejournal.com]

I think I got a note telling me I wasn't getting one. It was very mysterious, it told me I couldn't adjust my taxes any further or something, which I didn't try to do. Regardless, because of low income and high tuition, I already got back all the taxes I paid last year, so... Meh.

[banana-pants.livejournal.com]

iPhone has a high likelilhood of appearing stimulated.

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

What he said. :-)
(Of course, I was going to get one anyway, but whatever...)

[cubes.livejournal.com]

Apparently we are already sufficiently stimulated, as we're not getting one.

[obra.livejournal.com]

I'm going to count the $1 check I got as my stimulus check. It was quite stimulating. I laughed. I cried. I planned to blog it and then didn't bother.

[inthatoneway.livejournal.com]

Our back yard needs a sodding...

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

And, god help me, our patio umbrella just bit the big one.

(Can I spend it on sex toys in spirit?)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

It's going to sit in my money market savings for about 6 months, earning interest, and then hopefully I'll be buying a house and stimulating the real estate market in Holyoke or Chicopee.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Paying down the mortgage, or putting it toward insulating the house. SO FUCK YOU, GEORGE BUSH!!! I wave my tiny rebel fist in his general direction.

[rfrancis]

Yeah, mine's been direct deposited. What are we doing with it? I dunno, whatever we do with money anyway -- I'm not planning any however-much of purchases I wasn't going to make in the first place. So the answer depends on how you look at it -- perhaps it is accurate to say "saving it" and thus we decline to participate in the stimulusifying.

Of course, I more often think "paying for $400 of car repairs we just had to get done on the van," so.

[sukitawdry.livejournal.com]

moving expenses!

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

Paying my savings back for the cost of moving.

And paying down my bills.

[amarysta.livejournal.com]

not getting one, apparently, which is lame (especially since i had to pay $250 to new york this year). :(

[frotz.livejournal.com]

Nothing?

I don't have much savings in the grand scheme of things, but I have enough that if there was something that I really thought was worth spending a few hundred bucks on I'd probably have done so already, but I'm actually pretty bad at spending money on anything except food and car repair.

I do try and lower my standards when it's my birthday or something and I get a check with a "do something fun with this" exhortation, but that's my parents, not the government. The government's already taken far, far more than this, and I'm just getting a tiny bit back, so into the bank with it.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Assuming I get one (hasn't shown up yet)...

I wish I could afford to give it all to charity. But I can't, so I'll send some to charity and some to savings, and buy groceries or somesuch with the rest.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I don't get one. I owe taxes and can afford to pay them all yet. :-(

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Paying off student loans and/or savings.

[cerridwynn.livejournal.com]

Nothing really. I don't plan on changing my spending because of an extra couple hundred dollars -- it'll just go in my bank accound and i'm sure it'll get spent eventually.

[skreeky]

Although we have not heard anything to confirm this, I am working under the assumption that we don't get one.

[belfrynotes.livejournal.com]

One way or another most of ours is probably going into the house. Wherever it goes, I'm trying to keep it local. That we're getting it at all is a ridiculous pandering gesture on the part of the government, of course, but since we are the least we can do is try not to send it all to China.

[contrariety.livejournal.com]

I am donating it to the good people of Norway. I think it's important for Americans to realize that not all countries are fortunate enough to have the strong, booming economy we have. Hopefully, with my money, a poor Norwegian can buy a house. Or perhaps ten Norwegians can buy cows, thus setting them on the road to freedom from the slavery of tenant farming.

No need to thank me, Norwegians. It's just regular old American generosity at work.

[bloodstones.livejournal.com]

I am likely to follow contrariety's lead and spend it on my trip to scotland this summer...

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

What means 'stimulus check'?