They could have spent it on light rail and regional rail lines in every decently sized city across America... thousands of KM.... that would have created jobs and helped reduce gasoline consumption (save money)

I spent most of mine finishing up the Japanese half sleeve/half chest piece that I had been working on. Cash only, so couldnt be tracked though :o(

6th tat ftw!

whcrow: My wife goes down to the mail box every day to "see if the Ice cream money check" has arrived.

She seems to think that it will amount to enough to buy a bit of icecream every day.

When I saw Lewis Black he was on a kick about how it's equivalent of eating a cupcake every day.

To my complete surprise, my wife suggested a new TV. We'd been thinking about getting one, so we bought a used 52" DLP Mitsubishi. Came with 3 years left on an onsite warranty and a free bulb replacement. Got if off her company's classified site and talked them down to $650. Sold the old tv on CL for $200.

Spent the other $300 to finish paying off the credit card. Now we've killed all of the CC debt - not that there was much to begin with. I'm a "cash unless I have to" kind of spender. Now all that's left is car and student loans...

The $200 I got back just paid for the concealed handgun class I signed up for on 6/14. A guy a work with is doing it at the same time so we got a discount to $95 for the class. :)

Two chicks, same time.

Didn't Dave Barry say something about this stimulating China?

Bought silver with mine.

I got a stimulus check, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

I'm paying down my credit card so I can go out and put more on it. Folks just need to be patient and let human nature catch up to itself.

fenrael23: Stimulus Check = Pissing on a forest fire.

Ooh, the stimulus check game. Ok, how about:

Stimulus check = Bringing a sponge to clean up a flood zone.

Stimulus check = fighting a plague of locusts with a bug zapper

Stimulus check = smoking one bowl with Snoop Dogg

ScubaDude1960: If you take $100 and build a table that you can sell for $700, you have created $600 in new wealth, which adds to the economy. There is no new wealth generated with the stimulus check... it's just money that's already been earned (and confiscated by the government), or money that's being borrowed and must be paid back in the future, being redistributed. The economic effect is zero.

Sorry, you fail at economics.

DROxINxTHExWIND: fenrael23: Stimulus Check = Pissing on a forest fire.

Ooh, the stimulus check game. Ok, how about:

Stimulus check = Bringing a sponge to clean up a flood zone.

Stimulus check = fighting a plague of locusts with a bug zapper

Stimulus check = smoking one bowl with Snoop Dogg

Now that's just silly. Only FEMA would bring a sponge to clean up a flood zone.

UpstateMonkey: Two chicks, same time. Cup

FTFY

Burn14Me: idrow: Thanks, Burn. Sigh - mine is 89. I'm the last in line.

yea well mines 99 and i feel neglected :(

only knew of that list because i spent last few weeks actually checking my mail, looking for it. Was like where is my mother farking stimilus check biatch, everyday finally dawned on me to use the internet for something other than reading fark and looking at porn :D

You can use the internet for things other than Fark and porn? Huh. That's the second thing I've learned from you today :)

MorphOSX: I bought a month and a half worth of gas.

You must be driving a hybrid.

Mine will go towards...paying bills! Hooray. I only have a year or so of payments on my car, and this will help. Well, part of it is going towards a good fishing pole, too. Hooray!

Tiffany & Co., the world's second-largest luxury-jewelry retailer, today forecast full-year earnings that may beat analysts' estimates on a surge in jewelry sales

//The rich get richer and the po git po'er.

///Save it to pay your tax increase next year!!!

DROxINxTHExWIND: fenrael23: Stimulus Check = Pissing on a forest fire.

Ooh, the stimulus check game. Ok, how about:

Stimulus check = Bringing a sponge to clean up a flood zone.

Stimulus check = fighting a plague of locusts with a bug zapper

Stimulus check = smoking one bowl with Snoop Dogg

Stimulus check = a tiny fraction of what the government took from me, and wasted, in the first place

rosebud_the_sled: I didn't get a check. It was sad. $600 could have gone a way to pay for a good dinner for 4.

That being said, I am shocked that a Bush economic plan did not work, given his past 100% record of failure.

Bush plan fails? UNPOSSIBLE!!

lincolncounty: Tiffany & Co., the world's second-largest luxury-jewelry retailer, today forecast full-year earnings that may beat analysts' estimates on a surge in jewelry sales

the surge is working

I've got a kid coming. Babies 'R' Us seems to be winning out on getting my stimulus check, to the detriment of the local purveyor of HDTVs.

Glad to hear you're making the right decision, but the very fact that you're whining about it means your head isn't on completely straight yet. Time to man up.

These cash is mines.

In a couple of hours, as soon as I get out of this work thing, my family and I will be off using ours on a vacation. After all, we want to do our best to stimulate the economy it whatever way we can.

idrow: I haven't spent mine, because I HAVEN'T GOTTEN IT YET!
/No, you can't have stimulus check
//Not yours


Same here. My stupid SS number!!!

/Because I have no f@ck trophy, not going to be a bigger one anyway.
//Stupid me and my disposable income.

fuzzwell: Crosshair: I used mine on guns and ammo. Got a nice Ruger SP101 in 32 H&R Magnum and some reloading supplies, then paid down the credit card a bit.

I did not get one.

But I bought a Markov 9mm, and a Wather PPKS, and a H&K .45ACP just for the hell of it.

I got an Uberti Cattleman SA in .357. Don't tell my girlfriend - she thinks I'm using it for a ring!

Welcome to the Machine: /Because I have no f@ck trophy, not going to be a bigger one anyway.

Nice.

Burn14Me: "PAPER CHECK

Last two SSN digits: Payments will be mailed no later than (and received a few days after):
00 through 09 May 16
10 through 18 May 23
19 through 25 May 30
26 through 38 June 6
39 through 51 June 13
52 through 63 June 20
64 through 75 June 27
76 through 87 July 4
88 through 99 July 11" [1]

[1] http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=180250,00.html

Ah no wonder why. Mine comes in late June/early July.

Bah! I apparently make too much money to get one. So in defiance I'm going to put my paycheck I received today into savings. Take that stimulus!!

Can someone smarter than I explain how devaluing the dollar stimulates the economy?

We got a couch. We've done our part, now everyone should stop asking me to stimulate things more. I'm done stimulating. I want to be stimulated instead.

JWideman: Can someone smarter than I explain how devaluing the dollar stimulates the economy?

They didn't say which direction they were stimulating it towards...

But that minor one I do get?

I'M GOING SHOPPING!!!!

martid4: I'm blowing my check on blow.

I remember when you could get at least one hooker and some blow. These times are tough, my friend.

psycho_something: Bah! I apparently make too much money to get one. So in defiance I'm going to put my paycheck I received today into savings. Take that stimulus!!

The fact that you can put away a paycheck means a lot more than you think it does.

Our check paid half of the cost cut down 3 very large dead trees in our yard.

yippee

whcrow: My wife goes down to the mail box every day to "see if the Ice cream money check" has arrived.

She seems to think that it will amount to enough to buy a bit of icecream every day.


That's adorable, but I thought child marriages were illegal...

Sybarite: A nation of people deeply in debt didn't go blow their check on new TVs and iPods? Isn't that odd.

Honestly, yes it is odd. This is a nation of idiots.

/didn't get no check
//only poor people got them, for some silly reason

I don't get one because I'm a Limozeen Liberal.

/reeeech beyooootch

I had mine transferred directly to savings, where it will stay. Rainy days are coming and I'll want the money then, not now.

Got my stimulus check direct deposited while on vacation in Prague, CZ and promptly spent it on the following...

1 1950's era Czech military field phone in full working order purchased from an antique store a block away from the astronomical clock.
1 bottle of Absinthe (yeah the real wormwood kind)
1 22 yr old really hot blonde Czech hooker from a brothel off of Wenceslas Square for 1.5 hours

/as for what happened... use your imagination...

The Bush administration made a plan that failed!?!?


That's UNPOSSIBLE

Xerxes99: 1 22 yr old really hot blonde Czech hooker from a brothel off of Wenceslas Square for 1.5 hours


Stimulus Czech...

Anybody that passed High School Economics knows that these stimulus checks weren't gonna work. Most Americans used thier check to buy a plasma TV from a Japanese supplier.

Create Jobs and get people employed.

Bush couldn't manage the Texas Rangers Ball Club, didn't do much better with the USA.

Thats what Roosevelt did.

\ I got a B in economics.

still surpised I haven't gotten mine yet.

/ssn ends in 03
//would probably just put it in my savings account anyways