Category: Rent/Mortgage
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C'mon to my house, to my house...
"Bought 8 sheets of OSB subfloor and 20 boxes of laminate floor which I installed throughout our house. Since I can't sell my house, I figured we might as well improve it. The dogs were existing. "
Jeff, 34, Mechanical Designer
Cincinnati, OH -
Thanks for nothing!
"I have yet to get mine, but it will be spent on my house payment, and electric bill....Thanks, G-dub, but I didn't stimulate the economy!"
Jess, 24
Elroy, Wisconsin -
Down on luck
"Well, I was laid off from my job about a week before the check arrived. While I am very grateful the check came when it did, I ended up paying the monthly bills until my unemployment kicked in. Oh well for paying off the credit card as planned..."
Helen
Minneapolis, MN -
Basic Necessities
"My husband was laid off of work for six months recently. I was very glad to be getting some much needed extra money to catch up on bills, put food on the table for my son and us, etc. "
Jennifer L, 32, HR admin/manufacturing/KCMO
Independence, MO -
Single mom
"as a single mom with no child support being paid over 11 years, i like most spent my check on bills so we arn't homeless or with out electric or food..... it helped but isn't going to solve the rising problem."
erin hewlett, 29, SCR
fairfield, ohio -
Not enough...
"We spent most our check on bills that were months behind! And my husband and I actually got to have a date night...first one in almost 6 months! The rest went to our sons 2nd birthday and savings. But it won't stay there long...we need a bigger house! So the stimulus helped but not nearly enough...for the sinking ecomony!"
Crystle Bolick, 25, Stay at home mom
Carleton, Mi. -
Single mom just trying to make the ends meet
"I spent $600 of my stimulus check on the deposit of a new apartment because my current landlord never paid the mortgage, until I got the letter from the bank saying I had 30 days to get out because the house was being foreclosed upon. And when ever I receive the $300 I will use that money to put food in my son's cute little face. "
Jessie, 27, Financial Aid Officer
West Warwick, RI -
Movin on up...
"We got outta the in-laws and finally got our first apartment!!! THANKS DUB-YA!!"
Zac, 20, Self-employed/mover
Austin, TX -
Security Deposit
"We paid for our security deposit for a new duplex rental."
Jolene, 33, Marketing Director /Somerville Architects
Green Bay, WI -
THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH
"I spent my money on catching up on bills, such as rent, gas, groceries, and utilities. I got $600, $300 for me and $300 for my child and I'm sorry but if they wanted people to use this money for luxury reasons, I feel they should have given a lot more due to the economy. The way things are going it really doesn't make sense that everything is rising in cost from gas to house prices but people are constantly getting laid off or their paychecks are not going up. The way things are going in order for a single person to have a decent living you MUST have two jobs. As you can see in the pic I'm at work, thats all I can do is work, due to everything being so high and jobs are not paying thats the only way I can provide for my child. It would have been nice if they sent enough for people like me that work 40 or more hours a week to be able to go on a vacation and use time that I can't take cause I don't have the money. I really hope next time the government really take a look at the way things are and have more consideraton on people that work everyday but because of high costs on everything we are just barely getting by."
Crystal, 25, Customer Service
Fort Lauderdale, Florida -
Puh-leeeeaaasssssssse!
"I used my stimulus check for a second deposit I had to give to my landlord because of the state of the economy. He wanted to make sure he has some kind of security incase we couldn't afford our rent and had to move out! Ha! My fiance' used his to pay toward his student loan. No shopping, no school supplies for the kids, no fun, no dinner or groceries. Just paying for my landlords security. :("
Jeannette, 30, Laid off
Willowbrook, IL -
Check Please...I need another one
"Well I wanted to buy this nice furniture I'm sitting on, but I paid my bills so fast that I forgot I had even received the check..."
De Napoleon, 30, Financial Analyst
Arlington, Texas -
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"We are using the stimulus money to pay the 1st payment on our HELOC. We're using the remainder to pay part of our mortgage since my husband has been out of work on worker's compensation the past two months. "
Vivi, 39, marketing
Thousand Oaks, CA -
Giving My Baby Girl A Home
"It was put in an account to help us move. We are a new family and in the proccess of a forclosure unfortunately my daughter will no longer have her home. If anyone would like to help us buy purchasing some pretties for their little girls check out my store at SkyeBows.com Thank you for your help it is appreciated!!"
Traci, 22, Stay At Home Mommy To A Beautiful Little Girl
Apache Jct, AZ -
Catching Up On Bills
"Being a recent widow I did the only thing I could do, tried to catch up on the bills I was left when my husband passed away. I don't really remember what I specifically spent it on, I just know it didn't go near far enough. "
Jennifer
Red Lion, OH -
We need a roof over our heads
"My check($1200.00) helped pay some of my mortgage.No food or gasoline were bought as my mortgage is double then what was recieved."
Bobby S, 38, Transportation engineer
Keller, Texas -
A Little Late...
"Well, I spent our stimulus check on our bills, and our rent, and that didn't even put a nitch on what we owe for rent, I am a single mother of 3, and we are 3 months still behind on rent...it didn't seem to be enough with the prices of everything else going sky high."
Dawn, Student, for my RN
New Miford, PA -
My Savior from eviction!
"Well ,that drop in unemployment happened to us, on the day before i went in for a c-section my husband was laid off for the 3rd time! buy the time the check arrived he had been laid off a fourth time!Thank god for that check! We saved ourselves from eviction,paid the electric,paid the water bill.got gas,got something to eat, and got the 2 oldest kids a toy,but we're still missing money from the stimulus package we filed jointly and only got $600 for us when it should've been $1200 for married couples,we'll see if i get that money!"
michele romero, 23, unemployed
naples, florida -
"Well, I was disappointed when all I got was $600.00 and I'm a single Mom of two boys. My intent was to spend my TOTAL rebate monies on a new energy efficient refridgerator, but instead my $600 went to my mortgage instead."
Watercolor Arteest, 35, Buyer, OEM
Concord, NH -
It was spent before it came...
"I spent my check on BILLS. We needed to get caught up and could use one more of those to do so. This economy and gas prices stink. We couldn't do anything we wanted to because we live paycheck to paycheck and just HAD TO GET CAUGHT UP ON BILLS. "
Heather P., 27, Stay at home mother with disabilitys
Lexington, KY
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