# Tax Refunds are Coming... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486 "2001-06-28T17:02:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/1 "2001-06-28T17:02:55Z")
So, my fellow Americans, what are you gonna do with yours? Anything special planned? Vacation, philanthropy, finally buying that modern art job you’ve had your eye on? Sublime, or mundane, I want to hear your ideas! I’m thinking of donating mine to the primary school I attended 20 something years ago – they could probably put it to good use, and I’m pretty sure they’d appreciate it. Or I could buy candy. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/2 "2001-06-28T17:07:41Z")
I’m going to buy a solid gold house! :: someone whispers in my ear:: What? three HUNDRED? Oh. ditto the candy, then. $300 of Sour Skittles sounds like an interesting evening in my bathtub. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/3 "2001-06-28T17:43:25Z")
A G3/500 upgrade card for my aging 604e/200 Macintosh clone. It should let me squeeze another year or two out of this five year old horse. I’m sure getting my money’s worth out of her. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/4 "2001-06-28T17:57:43Z")
Well I for one am going to mail a check for exactly the same amount of my rebate back to good ole’ Dubya. And if the rest of you Americans were good citizens you would do the same. 😃 No, seriously, cheese. Yup, $600 worth of cheese. Damn I’m going to be constipated. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/5 "2001-06-28T18:05:08Z")
There’s this great hardcover coffeetable book about 16th-17th Century Dutch artists, for starters. And a hand-carved wooden chess set. And a new fencing blade. Aw, who am I kidding: I need new exhaust system on the Tempo. Damned practical side of the brain… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/6 "2001-06-28T21:30:10Z")
My Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] will be getting her license about that time - I’m guessing the insurance company will see most, if not all, of it. If there’s any left, it’s going into the bank. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/7 "2001-06-29T21:17:47Z")
I’m gonna pay off the !%&%^!? overpriced gasoline bill and the !%&%^!? overpriced electric bill that got jacked up by the !%&%^!? energy companies when that !%&%^!? fraud Texas oilboy Dubya !%$&%^!? hijacked the 2000 elections and got himself appointed into the White House. (“Be grateful”? For **what?** As far as I’m concerned, this situation is analogous to the policeman giving me a bandaid after I was mugged by the thief that the policeman didn’t arrest in the _first_ place…) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/8 "2001-06-29T23:45:39Z")
Half is going to pay off the car, the other half will be wasted on DVDs and books. Wheee! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/9 "2001-06-30T10:45:07Z")
I’m gonna donate some, spend some, save some. I’ve already donated\* some and will donate more, when I actually GET the money in my sweaty little hands. I’ll probably pay down a debt, get some chocolate, and put the rest in my retirement account. MAYBE I’ll get another video game, if there’s a good one out that I want. \*I adopted Merlin the Owl from screech-owl’s website, thus making a donation to a conservation effort in Florida. I figured the irony was just too rich to pass up. Besides, I like owls. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/10 "2001-06-30T15:09:57Z")
Rent. A _fraction_ of my rent. And screech, what kind of weapon are you looking to get? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/11 "2001-07-01T19:47:20Z")
Thanks, Lynn! Merlin and the others will appreciate it! 😃 **Maeglin** , epee. Not sure which brand yet: I have to replace my 15yo France-Lames blade [back when they were quality blades] - hasn’t seen any action (like me) for the last few years - but I want to replace it before I have to. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/12 "2001-07-01T20:33:31Z")
Does anyone know - if you filed a joint return, will the checks still be sent according to each taxpayer’s SSN or both based on the first one listed?? Since I’m 18 and he’s 83, (that’s not our ages, so no sniggering) there’s a definite gap betwixt the two issue dates… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/13 "2001-07-01T20:46:40Z")
**Fairy** , my understanding is that they will send it according to whomever is listed first. What will I do with mine? Uh, well, I don’t make enough money to get one. Hey, back off, I’m just a lowly college student who has next to no income. And the income I do have goes to my sick and dying mother who lives in a ghetto in Georgia. _Yeah, that’s the ticket. She lives in a poor house._ Anyway, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/14 "2001-07-01T21:08:45Z")
I got a whopping big refund this year (thanks to having spent only three months working in the US in 2000). It’s already gone ☹ Half to my season ticket at Celtic Park for next season, and half to my credit card bill … ---
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/15 "2001-07-01T22:21:08Z")
All to Mrs. Lucwarm, who has already spent most of it on clothing. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/16 "2001-07-01T22:49:12Z")
Jeez… I got mine in March. $4600 (canadian). There’s a shiny new car in the driveway that I put a big chunk o’ money onto. The rest I banked for my move here, and it’s all gone now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/17 "2001-07-02T04:09:34Z")
**Ginger** , we’re talking about the refund that comes from Bush’s tax cut, not the regular refund. Don’t worry, there is no way you should know that if you aren’t from the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/18 "2001-07-02T13:51:23Z")
I need to put mine in the bank, because the temporary agency I work for hasn’t given me any assignments since March. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/19 "2001-07-02T14:42:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maeglin \* > **Rent. A _fraction_ of my rent.** You too, huh? I’m moving at the end of this month, and the rebate will help me forget that I really can’t afford to live where I’m going to live. This means that I won’t have to get a second job until sometime in October rather than September… ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486/20 "2001-07-02T16:20:03Z")
Debt reduction. Mine, not the country’s. I know that it is boring, but we just got huge loan to install Central A/C and the sooner we pay it off the better. We may spend a small bit on something fun like dinner and a movie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-refunds-are-coming/70486.md?page=2)