Category: Other

  • THE GOVERNMENT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    "Nothing!!! The IRS found a way to take half of our Check. I won't spend one dime in this country. It is going to be spent in Australia. Thanks for putting the SCREWS TO THE MIDDLE CLASS WORKING MAN. "

    Bill, 44, Chef
    Batesburg, South Carolina

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (4) |

  • Paid For Someone Elses Gas Expenses!

    "After my car was repossessed for not being able to pay both rent and car payment together. I still ending up having to move after barely completing my lease agreement for my apartment. So when I finally received the $300 I went down to T-mobile paid for my phone service to be restored. Gave my mother $40 and my sister $40, then bought some gas for someone else car to get back and forward to work for the rest of the week. And that ladies and gentlemen is how you spend $300 in a day! LLOL I hope that helped the economy, cause it sure didnt do much for me..but God Blesses anyway!"

    Sakura Armstrong, 33, Actively Seeking Employment
    Orlando, Florida

    3rd Jul 2008 in Vehicle & Gas, Utilities, Other | Discuss (24) |

  • Electricity & Captain Morgan

    "Spent my stimulus check paying off my electric bill which skyrocketed over winter...then I spent the last $100 going out with friends. Not like I really enhanced the economy with that $100 but the electric company was really pleased to have their dough....now if I can just stay caught up for the summer!"

    Teri, 40, Risk Management
    Coralville, IA

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |

  • Mislead by the government....again!!

    "Helped to pay off wedding debt. Was mislead about the amount we would recieve, and spend it several times over in anticipation of getting it. "

    Kendra Hunsaker, 19, Administrative Assistant
    Casa Grande, Arizona

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (5) |

  • Pay off those bills!

    "I just paid off some bills. Something we all need to do. Tighten your belt and let's get working together to "get er done"! Toys all come and go but finiancial freedom -- that's the ticket! Blessings, MB"

    Michael Beeler, 51, Sales
    El Paso, Texas

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |

  • Saving it 4 a RAINY day!!!

    "Straight into my savings for a rainy day...with prices rocketing and all the bad air frim the fires here I might need to dap into it here and there for a high PG&E bills soon. (picture is from CA 2nd largest fire recorded in history which was last years Zaca fire...we have bad air in CA)"

    Brooke, 26, self-employeed
    Fresno, CA

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (1) |

  • Unhappy

    "I was planning on paying my house taxes which was exactly $1,200.00 my husband and I was to receive. But since my husband started his own business in Aug 2007 and owed taxes, the IRS kept our stimulus check. So much for getting that extra money. I know alot of other people they did the same thing to them. I thought this check was for personal use WE WERE WRONG!!!!"

    Norma, 48, Administrative
    Dallas, Texas

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |

  • I smell good is Disneyland with less debt

    "I did three things with my stimulus check. First of all, I finally bought the Betsey Johnson perfume I've been wanting for 6 months or so ($40), I bought my plane ticket to Anaheim so I could go to Disneyland ($160), and I used the rest ($400) to pay off the debt I owe to my parents for a trip to Europe I took last summer."

    Jen, 27, High School teacher
    Sacramento, CA

    3rd Jul 2008 in Debt/Credit Card, Travel & Vacation, Other | Discuss (0) |

  • Government has Something Wrong!

    "$1,300 of my $1,500 check went to my husband's illegitimate child who doesn't even carry his last name! The remaining $200 helped buy much needed clothing for my three children and some prescription medications. Still leaves on living on Food Stamps and searching for jobs to help fuel our one car. GET THIS: A Stimulus check came to this house addressed to the person in the picture, who happens to be here illegally from Mexico. There are also people actually living in Mexico who with the help of a P.O. Box in Texas, receive Social Security Checks and have never worked a day in their lives in the United States. How does that happen?"

    Laura
    El Paso, TX

    3rd Jul 2008 in Apparel, Health & Medical, Vehicle & Gas, Other | Discuss (2) |

  • What a joke

    "Nothing, they kept my whole amount for student loans. The michigan economy sucks, I lost my job and there are no good jobs to be found. I fell behind in bills and now struggle to make it paycheck to paycheck, especially with the cost of gas. So instead of the money helping those that truely need it is just stays within the system. Thanks for nothing. "

    kevin v, 42, transportation
    Pontiac, Mi

    3rd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (2) |

  • Yeah Right

    "When I received my stimulus payment via direct deposit it pretty much took my account out of a major negative balance...I would say I had about $250 left of $600. It helped, but with the rising cost of EVERYTHING, it makes life pretty rough for a single mom. The rest went to gas in my car/groceries. No fun spending for me."

    Rachel, 32, Manager/Yacht Club
    Wilmington, North Carolina

    3rd Jul 2008 in Vehicle & Gas, Other | Discuss (0) |

  • My husband is not spend his money the government kept it

    "I tell you how my husband check was spent and it wasn't even spent by him. The government stayed with his money because of back childsupport he owes. I feel that is was not right not only did they stay with his income tax they also kept the money the government was giving away. I can understand if their is people (men) who do not pay and only pay with their income tax but, my husband has been paying faithfully without missing one payment since he has been with me and has been working. He owes alot and I can not be to upset and understand but, he is and has been paying so, why stay with that money also."

    Emily, 29, N/A
    Reading, PA

    2nd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (6) |

  • Pointless...

    "I didn't really get to buy anything... My tax refund was direct deposited into my sister's bank account because I didn't have an account at that time and I didn't want to wait for a check and then pay a ridiculous fee to cash it. SO, when the rebate check was deposited into her account, she was so overdrawn AND had written some checks for bills that my check covered her bills and brought her account to a positive balance. She's given me some money here and there over the past 2 months, but she still owes me $600... which I'll probably never see. Lesson Learned - Never trust family! :)"

    Shannon (Goodman) Faulkenbury, 27, ELS / Payroll, Work Comp, Gov Compliance / Payroll Representative
    Deltona, FL

    2nd Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (7) |

  • Paying off the Loan Sharks

    "We paid off several HIGH interest loans that we had to get since I am currently out of work and hubby's job doesn't pay enough to meet the bills, especially since moving into our home this March. We did, however, splurge on some plants to landscape the front yard. "

    Darla, 34, unemployed teacher
    Olathe, Kansas

    2nd Jul 2008 in Home & Garden, Other | Discuss (0) |

  • Paid taxes with tax money

    "I used it to pay on my property taxes..."

    Linda, 49, factory worker
    Alton, IL

    1st Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |

  • IRS bites

    "The IRS kept ours. OUCH! We've just had a new baby and we didn't pay in enough money, because we had to use it for insurance and medical bills. So, since we owed them money they decided how much of a downpayment to give them, they just kept the whole thing."

    Lynn, 36
    Ventura, CA

    1st Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |

  • We have to do WHAT with our stimulus check?

    "Don't roll your eyes when you read this, but we put some of the stimulus money towards our property taxes and homeowners insurance and what little was left went into the savings account. It's so hard to save money now due to high gas prices/high grocery cost/high electric bills, etc......shall I go on?????"

    Tammy, 40, Stay-at-home Mom
    Weatherford, Texas

    1st Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |

  • What Stimulus Check?

    "Unfornately, my story is a little different. I had to file seperate from my husband just to get a stimulus check, but it back fired because now my husband owes the IRS. I took my part and paid some past due bills. Now we cannot even pay our personal property tax to get our tags renewed for our car. Wow, we need another refund. "

    Michele, 42, Unemployed
    Independence, missouri

    1st Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (2) |

  • WHAT REBATE!!!!

    "I thought it was used to stimulate the economy. I have heard people paying off bills, putting it in savings or in my situation, I owed money, is that really stimulating. I DO NOT THINK SO...."

    stroker
    hopkinsville, kentucky

    1st Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (3) |

  • Odds and ends

    "I bought a Blackberry, three books of postage stamps, Wal-Mart necessities, perfume, backless/strapless silicone bras, and a side view mirror for my car that I broke a couple of weeks prior. And of course, gas."

    Jolie, 37, Education
    Fremont, CA

    1st Jul 2008 in Other | Discuss (0) |
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