AS's $600 stimulus check was direct-deposited on the very day predicted. If only everything the feds attempted was carried out this precisely! I sent it over to the UK, along with $3550 more. This amount should cover:
- Minimum payments on UK bills for April, May and June (about $1000).
- $1000 (500 pounds) extra toward credit card debt, including payoff of a small-balance card.
- Car rental, gas, food and fun during our trip ($2150--think that sounds high? Divide it in half, and then account for driving for 9 days and multiply gas prices by two).

Mine and NT's stimulus check should come via mail near the beginning of June. We paid our taxes by hard-copy because it would cost money to do an electronic payment from our bank account. Nice try. I said it once and I'll say it again; if the government would benefit from me doing things the high-tech way, they'd better by-gosh make it free to do so. Otherwise I'll stick with just paying for a stamp.

Whoops! Got sidetracked. Anyway, we should be getting $1200, and we've decided we want to treat ourselves. $600 is going to fun-money savings (for our autumn trip to Va.) and $600 is getting divvied between the three of us for whatever we like. I may try to save my $200 for a rainy day if I can't think of anything specific; don't want to piddle it away and wonder where it went.

So, I'm afraid Mr. Bush will get his way on 2/3 of the stimulus money coming to my household, even though I think the rebate was a bad idea. But at least I'm putting 1/3 toward debt.