You right JB. Its good to agree on something. That’s why I said we felt bad about it. We found out about this windfall this morning & haven’t decided on anything yet. We are slow to make decisions when it comes to money. It’s in the emergency fund already. One thing that my wife & I discussed is I’m still in quarantine after traveling across the country 4 days ago. I could be infected now & be dead next week? I’m leaning towards keeping the money until I’m safely out of quarantine & on the payroll again in a couple of weeks. If all is good, give the kids their $500 into their 529’s & my wife & I donate half of our $2,400 to the local Catholic Charity foodbank which is in partnership with the largest foodbank in our region. We give to this charity automatically monthly & whenever money falls on us like last months unbudgeted work. These ladies of charity will most likely get half of our government money to help the needy. But like I said, we are like turtles with money.
Jamesbrown, I finally got my month long backorder of TP from Amazon. Have shared with the neighbors. I will not get a stimulus check. How are you sharing your “Check” with your pals?
I laugh whenever I hear about the toilet paper shortage in the USA, never understood that since it is primarily a respiratory illness. Most powerful and richest country on the planet and there’s toilet paper shortage? That doesn’t bode well for proper PPE availability, mass testing and rapid vaccine development any time soon. I also wonder if many more people are infected than we know as they don’t have access to a doctor, afraid to go or can’t afford it.
One person coughs and the hundred near him shit.
As you may know, I am insured by AMO, (doesn’t cover TP though), can afford the co-pay, cancelled my latest checkup because as they say “That’s where all the sick people are”. I can wait this thing out. I do eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away. Or at least split it with my bride. And yes, the mutt gets a little piece too
As part of my job I run a 65’ boat for training mariners. We’ve had the usual problems: the main dies and won’t start. The AC system goes dark. Steering goes haywire. Water pipes burst. Etc. But the thing that causes the most fear by far is the inadvertent bumping of a 12v breaker in the engine room that supplies power to the macerator pump of the head.
Once the head won’t flush a wave of fear races through the trainees. A fire or asteroid strike wouldn’t cause such terror. There’s something in the American character that makes all things associated with a bowel movement unspeakably sacred and precious.
Strangely, the person who quickly goes down the engineoorm to flip the breaker back on is never looked on as a hero. I know now why plumbers charge so much.
Now that is funny,but true. My bowel movements are dear to me, and now that Amazon delivered my TP a month late, I can go anytime I want. The breaker switch person is my hero. All I have to do is pay the water bill on time. And eat my roughage.
That is good to hear. I was surprised that cheque payment is still in common use in the US.
Can’t remember last time I wrote a cheque, as it is no longer in use in Singapore (or Norway) (Hasn’t been for many years. Not sure if it is even a legal method of payment any more)
Why does the Govt. still issue cheques to some and not all??
So you’re a Freudian?
I’m unfamiliar with that brand. I use Charmin. Love those wacky bears.
Not everyone in the United States has a bank account or access to one - many Americans on the lower income spectrum in particular. There are several reasons for this including, but not limited to, the cost to you when you lend an institution your own money or identification requirements so the government can identify tax cheats.
A paper check can be taken to a predatory money lending institution (which is not a bank) which will happily cash a paper check for a fraction of its face value.
In the United States we call this ‘free market capitalism’.
It’s a personal preference & the government will get it to you as you request. In the US many people over pay their income taxes & receive a refund for what wasn’t owed at the end of the year. Others don’t make a lot of money & the government will give them charity called a tax income credit. Those who receive their refund or charity via electronic deposit should also receive their stimulus payments by the same means because the government has the account info on file. If they request a paper check for their refund/charity the stimulus payment will also be in the form of a paper check.
There’s another thing about checks and mariners in general…
It may shock you to hear that sometimes mariners don’t make the best decisions when it comes to spouses/living mates. These spouses, with access to their partner’s bank accounts, have sometimes been know to siphon away a mariner’s hard-earned money when they are away at sea, and spend it on extracurricular frivolities.
In this these cases, the mariner may prefer payment by check, either mailed to PO box unknown to their spouses, or to be picked up from the home office when they return from a voyage.
The bears are cute. “My hineys clean.” I laugh every time I see it, as you can see I am quite easily amused.
Isolation and Government methodics which were adopted in China, Singapore, - I mean strict isolation and total monitoring - that is the method! In my Country another system. But as long as I can see the clounds and the Sun - everything is goddamn Perfect!