Category: Recreation & Events
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New skates for roller derby!
"I bought myself new skates for roller derby! For the last year I've been loving life as a Rat City Rollergirl Sockit Wench. (pictured above in blue) www.ratcityrollergirls.com My first pair of skates were awful, they hurt my feet and were two sizes too big. I spent all but $1.98 of my stimulus check on a brand new pair of pretty white skates with shiny aluminum plates. Now that I have top of the line skates that fit appropriately, I can skate better, faster and kick a lot more butt! *Photo by Crash Zone Photography"
Anya Heels, 28, Rollergirl
Everett, WA -
Hot and Steamy
"Well couldnt pass this up.Hate to see how its going to affect my power bill since it has raised 20 % Oh well its going to be a good summer.LOL"
Jim, 47, Supervisor Precious Metals
Parkersburg, West Virginia -
Vacation
"Thank you GB for the $600.00 stimulus check. Now I can take my vacation... hope there'll be another one coming soon."
Dennis, 47, Rad Tech., CHC, Saipan
Saipan, MP -
Yo ho, it's a pirate's life for me!
"We're getting married! The money came just in time to pay the balance of the wedding ceremony! (on a pirate ship)"
Redneck Ophelia
Sarasota, FL -
99 bottles of beer on the wall
"My father and I used our rebate check to purchase lots of beer on a multi-country European vacation"
Sam, 21
Boaz, AL -
Live life at 120 mph!
"I spent the money to pay for a month of skydiving! At $25 a lift to altitude, that's 24 skydives for me. Blue Skies!"
Chelle, 26, Accountant
Schenectady, NY -
Wedding & Horses
"Im engaged and my 600- went towards our location for the wedding which was 1250 July 18th! My fiances 600- went to buy 250 bales of hay for our horses before the winter starts charging $7 a bale. So we are very happy where our money went. GOIN TO ST CROIX for the honeymoon!"
Megan, 22, X-Ray Technician
Woodbury, Tennessee -
Summer Vacation
"My rebate paid for two sets of sneakers, pads and football camp for two weeks during summer vacation. We both get a much needed break. Best investment ever!"
Kerrie, 35, Teacher
Mobile, AL -
Summer Camp!!!
"My wife went back to work at the end of last year, after being home with the kids for 10 years. Of course we did not put a whole lot of thought into the SUMMER and no school! So, the rebate check went towards a great summer camp for the kids. They are having a blast, busy all day, and we did not have to scramble for summer babysitting."
John, 44
Rochester, MN -
Beer Pong Tournament
"I bought beer for my beer pong tournament. yeah bush!"
Matt, 24, Recruiter
Bel Air, Maryland -
RC Monster Truck
"I used the stimulus money to fund my RC Hobby and bought myself a new RC Monster Truck."
Carlos, 18, Retail
Miami, Florida -
Soft Touch
"I paid for my Grandaughters graduation party. Her stepdad was fired from his job on the previous Monday and her mother hadn't received her "Bush" money. Even when she gets it she will have to pay the rent.....so I paid for the party all 1000.00 of it. I did have it earmarked to pay off credit card debt."
Nani, 58, receptionist
Livonia, Michigan -
Dentist, Camp and Swing
"$900 check Spent $275 on summer camp Spent $280 on a ceder swing Paid $300 on overdue dentist bill. "
Nancy, 46, social worker
Livonia , MI -
No Day But Today
"I used my stimulus check to subscribe to the 2008-2009 theater season in the San Francisco Bay Area."
antonijan, 25, student
san francisco, ca -
Groceries, investment, and strippers
"I spent my $600 rebate on store gift cards at Albertsons. They matched it with a 10% bonus, so I got $660 to put towards my grocery bills. Since that was money I was going to spend anyway, I also transferred $150 to my IRA, $150 to my Roth IRA, $150 to Prosper.com, and went to a strip club with the last $150. I still lost less money at the club that night than I did on the stock market that day (and 'Taylor' at least gave me good value for my money)."
George Morris, 25, Writer / Catalog Company / Clean Air Gardening
Dallas, Texas -
Day at the lake
"I rented this jet ski so we could enjoy a rather quite and peaceful day on the lake with friends and family. Took my Son to Ripley's belive it or not. And to top it off we went wild at Subway and ordered a 5.00 footlong. it was crazy... "
Henry Johnson, 30
Arlington, tx -
It's all Greek to me!
"We used our stimulus check to buy some greek cookies from the recent Greek Festival in Winston-Salem, NC. (Notice the crumb in the upper eyelash from the mad-greek-cookie-gnawing that took place moments before this picture was snapped)Also, we bought evil eye charms (it's a greek thing), gas for the car, baby food, baby formula, baby diapers, baby wipes, and the remainder went towards paying off the dishwasher (that washes the baby bottles)."
Katina Hejl, 35, Aerospace Programs and Marketing Mgr.
High Point, NC -
Money well spent
"I used my stimulus to get two brand new tires and an alignment that i needed badly, i bought a camera and i have some saved up for a kit that i need when i start school in the fall. "
Novelyn, 22, Pitt County Memorial Hospital/ Patients Transprter PT/ Student
Greenville , NC -
Better safe then sorry...
"Bought a CMMG lower reciever from a local gunshop. I figure with Obama's crazy gun stance, I better build a rifle before he tries to take it away from me! Hopefully it doesn't go that far...Thanks dubs!"
John, 32, Software
Bothell, WA -
Survivalist Ethics
"Camping Gear - Backpack for my son; 2 solo tents; 2 15-degree sleeping bags. My son and I will use them for boy scouts."
Dudeman, 46, Engineer
Salinas, CA
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