Comments on: Ideas For Your Income Tax Refund Or Stimulus Check http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/ Debt Reduction Rocks - We Are Living Debt Free! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jess http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/comment-page-1/#comment-102133 Jess Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:49 +0000 http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/#comment-102133 I am buying new tires and saving the rest. My hubby is saving 80% and buying a vacuum. I think many people will buy more! People at work were talking about how if you spend it on food or household furniture it is going overseas. On NPR they had a april fools saying that the goverment was insead going to give you an A/C if you lived in the south and a snowblower if you live in the north:) I am buying new tires and saving the rest. My hubby is saving 80% and buying a vacuum. I think many people will buy more! People at work were talking about how if you spend it on food or household furniture it is going overseas. On NPR they had a april fools saying that the goverment was insead going to give you an A/C if you lived in the south and a snowblower if you live in the north:)

]]> By: Jesse http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/comment-page-1/#comment-100021 Jesse Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:25:37 +0000 http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/#comment-100021 Finally: "I going to do as the government asks and spend it on frivolous items I don’t need." Amen, and really, its not going to help the economy that much even if you DO spend it. Its sort of akin to handing a starving village a bag of rice to gorge on. They are better for a day, but after that, its back to starving...and one step further, the rice is from their own emergency store and they have to pay interest on it. Finally: “I going to do as the government asks and spend it on frivolous items I don’t need.”

Amen, and really, its not going to help the economy that much even if you DO spend it. Its sort of akin to handing a starving village a bag of rice to gorge on. They are better for a day, but after that, its back to starving…and one step further, the rice is from their own emergency store and they have to pay interest on it.

]]> By: Frugal Dad http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/comment-page-1/#comment-99948 Frugal Dad Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:49:16 +0000 http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/#comment-99948 We're loading up the emergency fund. Nice summary of ideas here. We’re loading up the emergency fund. Nice summary of ideas here.

]]> By: Jesse http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/comment-page-1/#comment-99920 Jesse Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:08:27 +0000 http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/#comment-99920 To "No Debt Plan" actually you SHOULD be judging because that money is not government money - its deficit spending, IE YOU and your children and their children are paying for stranger A's big screen TV. To “No Debt Plan” actually you SHOULD be judging because that money is not government money – its deficit spending, IE YOU and your children and their children are paying for stranger A’s big screen TV.

]]> By: Future Millionaire http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/comment-page-1/#comment-99908 Future Millionaire Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:56:03 +0000 http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/07/ideas-for-your-income-tax-refund-or-stimulus-check/#comment-99908 I was fully planning to just stick mine in savings for a rainy day but the more I think about it the raining day might come the day I get the check. I'm really wanting a small LCD TV...we'll see if I can hold out or not. I was fully planning to just stick mine in savings for a rainy day but the more I think about it the raining day might come the day I get the check. I’m really wanting a small LCD TV…we’ll see if I can hold out or not.

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