So what wild & crazy, extravegant ways will you spend your tax rebate?

[LynneSin]

$600 - woohoo, I'm gonna spend like it's 1999

:eyes:

[Aristus]

1. Pay down debt.

What can I say; I walk on the wild side... B-)

[taterguy]

2. A week on the NC Outer Banks

Really

[Parche]

3. TOLLBOOTH DEBT

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:


I can take you out for dinner at the Olive Garden??

:woohoo:

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

4. My wife already spent it.

:evilfrown:

[fizzgig]

5. pay my rent

and probably throw the rest to credit cards

[DarkTirade]

6. Gonna use it to start doing something that will hopefully pay for itself. :)

In this case, I figured I'd combine my love of makin' stuff with my musical ability and dabble in making/modifying electric guitars. I figure for my first project I'll mod my own bass so I'll just buy the electronic parts (and knobs that go up to 11) for that, and if it goes well, then I'll start buying bodies and necks to make guitars with and/or cheap guitars/basses to mod.

I think for my bass I'll go with my 'geektar' idea, where I'll replace the pick guard with circuit board, and add a bunch of knobs and switches and if I can figure out how to deliver power to them properly, some LEDs and stuff. :)

The way I was planning on doing it would have two possible options... one with more knobs, and one with more switches. Or I could go all out and combine the two ways of doing it and have an equal amount of knobs and switches. And since I still haven't decided whether I'm gonna go for 2 or 3 pickups, I'm not even sure how many of each there'll be. :P

And after that I still have to decide on a name for it... I'm thinking either 'geektar' or 'nerdcore'.

[MissMillie]

I bought a new printer (< $100)

and I'm buying a ticket to fly down and see my brother in FL.

Oh, and I have to pay my excise tax on my new car.

[BeachBaby]

7. On Photoshop software.

Bwhahahahahahahaha............. :rofl:

Gotta keep up with the pev posse. :smoke:

[LSdemocrat]

8. Gonna go crazy on some student loan payments

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. if you came to nyc, i woudl buy you a drink with what is left of my tax rebate after paying for

summer school

[LynneSin]

10. One of these days I have to get up to NYC again

You heard the Vegan cake came out really good.

I messed up and got the wrong margerine for icing so we just did 'ice your own cake' and ThomCat had his cake with Vegan icing.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. i read the thread about it and was jealous that i couldnt make it

next time for sure!!!

if you are ever in nyc, you know i will be down for drinks!!

[Fox Mulder]

12. Buy groceries.

I'm sick of eating crap.

[CTyankee]

13. My household sinking fund.

To pay for maintenance of my house and property, replace any appliance that breaks down, carpet cleaning. My house is a big investment so I want to keep it up but man, it is costly...

[bigwillq]

14. Bills, bills, bills

Fill up the tank a few times, and maybe have a bit left over to enjoy.

[AngryAmish]

15. Big screen

[NightWatcher]

16. other (see below)

kidding

[SOteric]

17. Use it to pay my taxes.

Does anyone else remember the 'rebate' checks they sent out in what was it, 2000, - 2001...? At the end of the year the amount of the rebate was calculated as part of the total either owed us or owed the IRS on the annual return. So, if they'd given you $200 in 'rebates' and you normally would have gotten $400 back after taxes, you only got $200. It was really just a loan against your taxes designed to stimulate the economy with more immediate purchases. That notion that the government might actually be giving us money is something of an illusion.

So after I get out of hot water with the IRS, and make one or two minor purchases, I plan to put the lot of mine into a high interest account. Call be boring.

[OmahaBlueDog]

21. Hey, everyone, read what SOteric wrote. IMPORTANT

SO makes an excellent point -- this is an advance on next year's return -- not free money. If you typically owe taxes (as opposed to typically getting a return), my best advice is put this in a 9 month certificate so you'll have it for next years tax payment.

Good reminder!

edited to change pay taxes (which we all do) to owe taxes (which about half of us do)

[JTG of the PRB]

18. Most of it is going right into savings.

The rest will be spent (partially) on a new TV for myself (21-23"! :woohoo:), and my July trip to Las Vegas.

[OmahaBlueDog]

19. I'll go crazy and pay the 2nd installment of my property taxes.

[crim son]

20. Other:

pay the property taxes on this house. It won't cover the whole thing, but it'll help.

[hunter]

22. I owe property taxes too.

In one hand and out the other.

And the county government is facing huge tax shortfalls too, so it's not like those dollars are going to be increasing any "consumer confidence" where I live.

[crim son]

23. Well, that's just the point, isn't it?

I don't know what fantasy world the shrub lives in, but most people aren't going to be spending the money frivolously. It isn't going to make a damn bit of difference to anybody, not six months from now, not next year. However the one argument I hear consistently from repugs against Democrats is that "the Democrats will raise taxes." To those idiots, the stimulus check might be enough to persuade them to vote for McSame. Ugh! (slaps forehead) Jeebus.

[LynneSin]

24. I'd bitch about it but I could really use the extra $600 right now

but like you said - it isn't going to do anything to stimulate the economy. I've racked up some credit card bills and I can get 3 of them paid off with that money. Leaving me with just the big 2 left (I'm still in 4 digits with what I owe, so I'm not too panicked). I was told the best way to get your bills paid off is to get rid of the little ones first. That way you can focus all those $25-$50 payments into the major one. After this rebate I'll have all the small ones done and figured I can get enough of the big ones paid off so by tax time next year I can be pretty much debt free.

[crim son]

27. That's nothing to sneeze at.

I can't bitch about getting money, but it does serve as an indirect route to bitching about the shrub.

[Miss Carly]

25. I am going to keep mine in the bank

Carly

[Initech]

26. This:

http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/index.htm

:beer:

[Cant trust em]

28. Anyone seen that Chappelle's show episode where the Gov't pays slavery reparations?

"I'm rich biatch!"

[Deja Q]

29. Possibly a Cinnamon conure

A breeder has the cutest one for sale. Will look at him proper tonight. If he can play with toys and won't bite, he's sold.

(Piri and Piers are best together, but they are not people birds. :( )

[lizerdbits]

30. Almost 2 years of birth control pill copays!

Too bad I viagra doesn't fix messed up female hormones, it's probably a $10 copay instead of $30. Wow, I'm STILL bitching about this. :P