Where’s My Rebate Check?
Posted by angela on 05/3/08 in Domestic Ramblings
Did you get your rebate check yet?
What are you planning to spend your rebate check on?
Will you be buying American, contributing to out-sourced employers, OR will you be paying bills in order to survive?
I’m not sure what we are going to spend our rebate check on.
I was going to pay off the new furnace we had to buy last October but I just sent off the last $200 payment last week.
We do have one of those lawn mowers that you have to push. It’s pretty old. We may go ahead and buy ourselves a new lawn mower.
I thought about sending my rebate check back BUT then I realized that if I did that, it might go toward something I don’t want it to go to.
No, I think we’ll be a new lawn mower and put the rest away for a rainy day. In a couple of weeks we won’t afford to be able to gas up our vehicles.. so I supposed we should just save the rest!
I’m debating on whether we should keep it in the bank. Why should the banks get to earn interest from THAT money?
I really want to know what you’re going to do with your rebate check!
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Daisy Olsen | May 3, 2008 | Reply
Wow those are all frighteningly appropriate but still funny. It’s looking like we will be using ours toward a used car that we won’t be able afford to keep gas in.
ptg | May 3, 2008 | Reply
I won’t be getting one. Not having had enough taxable income to require filing a return for years, why remind them that I exist?
Gayla McCord | May 5, 2008 | Reply
We’re paying off our lawnmower and I’ll be sending a large chunk to the Hillary campaign. If after the Indiana Primary - we are looking at Obama for the Democratic nomination - I’ll submit the chunk to whomever will keep him from winning.
Tracy | May 5, 2008 | Reply
We’re either going to pay off credit cards or use it to pay toward private school tuition to get our girls out of the crummy public school they’re in now.
Still trying to figure out what the best way to go is– payoff a large chunk of tuition up front and then pay off the credit cards much faster (since we won’t have much of a tuition payment) OR payoff the credit card, and use the monthly payment we WERE paying every month, to pay towards the monthly tuition payment.
I know the WISEST thing would be to pay off the credit cards, since there’s interest. But the credit card payments only total $150, but tuition is $390 a month, per kid. And we’re talking about 3 kids. So it’s a “cash flow” thing. I need to sit down and work out all the math. Or maybe I should just give Dave Ramsey a call!!!
*Marie* | May 6, 2008 | Reply
It just seems so random. We are struggling, so they give us $600. I’m not refusing the money, but there are so many other things that could be helpful as well- in the long term.
Linette | May 6, 2008 | Reply
Save it for a rainy day:) It seems to be raining a lot lately.
angela | May 7, 2008 | Reply
Hi Daisy, isn’t it scary how expensive gas is?
Hi PTG, how on earth do you live?
Hi Gayla, please do not waste your money on the political campaign. These candidates have enough money to keep them alive in this race. Indiana is scaring me because it is a dead heat between them and Clinton is not beating by some huge margin either. She’s not even close to touching him in North Carolina. Save your money and prepare to vote for John McCain if need be.
Hi Tracy, pay off your credit cards. We just did that a couple of weeks ago. Besides, the kiddos have a brilliant Mom at home that can teach them what they are missing from school.
Hi Marie, what do you mean? What kinds of things that could be helpful as well- in the long term?
Hi Linette, we’re headed down to Texas in June for my 20 year high school reunion. I’m sure some of what we get will be spent down there.
ptg | May 7, 2008 | Reply
“Hi PTG, how on earth do you live?”
I live on cash and frugality.
expedition | May 9, 2008 | Reply
That wasn’t a nice comment if Clinton doesn’t win why not support the democratic nominee if you are a democrat rat.
expedition | May 9, 2008 | Reply
Gayla, you need to focus more on surviving because whomever wins the election is going to have a mess to clean up after Bush. Trust me it’s going to take a while and we will suffer until things change that’s why Obama says it’s time for a CHANGE.
angela | May 10, 2008 | Reply
Uh no, I will NOT be supporting Obama. There was a time when I once thought about it BUT he ruined it. There is so much we still don’t know about him and the parts that we do know I don’t think I can live with.
Gayla has already promised me she won’t vote for Obama if Hillary doesn’t make it. She’ll be voting for McCain as will I if Hillary doesn’t make it.
Well, I don’t think I would have voted for Hillary because I don’t want the Clinton’s in the White House again BUT I can see why Gayla was leaning towards Hillary.
ptg | May 11, 2008 | Reply
Barack Obama. He doesn’t know how many states comprise the United States. Watch as he indicates there are at least 57! If John McCain or GW Bush had said this…
angela | May 12, 2008 | Reply
PTG - how sad that he doesn’t even know how many states we have in the USA.
ptg | May 12, 2008 | Reply
We should cut Obama some slack. After all he is the victim of the racist AmeriKKKan system that keeps poor black kids from learning geography and history. You know, Barack is black and grew up poor and oppressed in the inner city ghetto.
Wait a minute…
Tim | May 12, 2008 | Reply
Your gas might be pretty expensive, but ours is worse. It’s about $1.25 per litre, which works out to like $5 per gallon. And going up.
Lisa Marie Mary | May 13, 2008 | Reply
We were a month and a half behind on the mortgage, and the kids needed some summer clothes. So I guess we did a ‘little’ bit of shopping. heh
angela | May 15, 2008 | Reply
I still have not received my direct deposit yet.
angel | May 19, 2008 | Reply
was wondering if i got a rebate check my name is angel freeman husband is christopher freeman of vincennes indiana
ptg | May 19, 2008 | Reply
Don’t worry, Mrs. Freeman, the Domestic Divapalooza will get your check in the mail pronto.
angela | May 20, 2008 | Reply
Hi Angel - I personally have no idea if you got your rebate check. Only you would know that, right?
PTG — you are a hoot-to-boot for sure!!
We received our rebate last week via direct deposit. I was pretty stoked. We put it directly in our savings account just in case we need it for a rainy day.
What else did the government think we would do with it? Donate it to the current political campaign? I think NOT! lol