Has anyone [in the U.S.] received your stimulus check? How are you going to spend it?

[Ecky]

I bought $40 in stainless hardware for 2nd Insight, gives me something to do.

The rest of it is going in the bank - we get 3% interest from our credit union on the first $25,000. We may move money beyond that into stocks, but only after the market has definitely hit bottom and is on its way back up.

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by Ecky

We may move money beyond that into stocks, but only after the market has definitely hit bottom and is on its way back up.

Good luck timing that.

[Ecky]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Good luck timing that.

Very little timing involved. Just wait a couple of years until it hasn't been going down for a long time. Maybe I'll miss the first 30% of increase, but that's fine.

[aerohead]

Haven't seen a penny.If I do,it will go into savings,towards an electric car.

[Ecky]

The last week or so we've had around $8,000 in socialism bucks come in.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by aerohead

Haven't seen a penny.

Same. Except I'd pay down the 1990 XFi that I don't have parking space for. If they revive cash for clunkers, I might off the diesel Dasher (if they'd let me keep the wheels ).

[Xist]

I have filed taxes every year since 2000. My bank account information was definitely in my 2018 and 2019 taxes. I have checked my bank accounts and irs.gov/eip at least once a day.

They opened that website nine days ago. Arguably we should be impressed that it works at all with so little time to set it up.

Today it told me that they needed my bank information, so I gave them my Navy Federal savings account numbers for that sweet sweet 0.25% interest, but my introductory 0% APR expires 6/4.

I owe $4,803 in taxes, have $7,000 on my credit card, will receive that $1,200 check, and will have $8,747.54 available in Navy Federal savings once the Zelle goes through.

I needed to give Navy Federal my Gmail and Google Voice numbers to set it up. Navy Federal says that it will take four days. Bank of America would have charged $3 to send $1,000 in three business days, which is more than I would earn in interest in a year.

I should be accruing about $2 a month in interest when my introductory APR runs out, but I may only owe about $600 on my credit card more than I have in my savings account.

My checking account isn't doing great, but I am going to see if I can put together the money to pay it off instead of transferring it or starting to pay interest.

[oil pan 4]

Yeah remember the "Obama care website"?
It supposedly cost over 2 billion dollars according to bloomberg and it didn't work at all when it first came on line.
I guess this administration hired competent comptrollers.

[Ecky]

Originally Posted by Xist

I have filed taxes every year since 2000. My bank account information was definitely in my 2018 and 2019 taxes. I have checked my bank accounts and irs.gov/eip at least once a day.

They opened that website nine days ago. Arguably we should be impressed that it works at all with so little time to set it up.

Today it told me that they needed my bank information, so I gave them my Navy Federal savings account numbers for that sweet sweet 0.25% interest, but my introductory 0% APR expires 6/4.

I owe $4,803 in taxes, have $7,000 on my credit card, will receive that $1,200 check, and will have $8,747.54 available in Navy Federal savings once the Zelle goes through.

I needed to give Navy Federal my Gmail and Google Voice numbers to set it up. Navy Federal says that it will take four days. Bank of America would have charged $3 to send $1,000 in three business days, which is more than I would earn in interest in a year.

I should be accruing about $2 a month in interest when my introductory APR runs out, but I may only owe about $600 on my credit card more than I have in my savings account.

My checking account isn't doing great, but I am going to see if I can put together the money to pay it off instead of transferring it or starting to pay interest.

My local credit union gives me 3% on my money and has no fees on anything.

[Xist]

Is that savings, checking, MMA, or what?