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  • Stumbleweed
    Livin' the dream
    • Oct 2006
    • 6279

    #76
    Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

    Grow light for my indoor garden, probably a netbook since I have no laptop to speak of, and pay down credit cards.
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    • Beantown
      #DoYourJob
      • Feb 2005
      • 31523

      #77
      Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

      Originally posted by Stumbleweed
      Grow light for my indoor garden.
      I wonder what you're growing.

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      • rspencer86
        MIB Crew
        • Sep 2004
        • 8807

        #78
        Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

        Originally posted by Longhorn
        I wonder what you're growing.
        Snapdragons.
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        • LionsFanNJ
          All Star
          • Apr 2006
          • 9464

          #79
          Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

          nothing, as my wife's former job left a nice little F.U. in her W2 so now we'll most likely be paying the government money we don't have. Yeah out of $6,000 only $150.00 gets taken out for taxes? sure, ok.
          Last edited by LionsFanNJ; 01-29-2010, 05:43 PM.
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          • GSW
            Simnation
            • Feb 2003
            • 8041

            #80
            Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

            im getting $1600 back

            Prolly get a PS3 and NHL10 (and the show 10 )

            and buy a rug for my apartment...and a new outfit and some shoes. and put the rest in my savings.
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            • WTF
              MVP
              • Aug 2002
              • 20274

              #81
              Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

              Just got my w-2's, and although my wife's job didn't take anything out of her checks all year (and she didn't think to notice it, lol)... we're still going to get a little bit back. Not much, but a little. Probably enough to buy the couch we desperately need, and save the rest of it.
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              • Jdurg
                Banned
                • Feb 2005
                • 827

                #82
                Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                I already got my $357 return from the state, and my $4,211 return from the feds will arrive in the next week or two. I bought my first house back in 2007, and when I got it the boiler/furnace was old, but still had some time left. This winter, I've been burning through oil pretty quickly and when I go downstairs I smell a lot of sooty air. When the boiler/furnace was inspected last year, the guy said that it was definitely on the downside and that the container where the hot water sits was falling downwards. (Or something like that. It's been a while since it was explained).

                Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that no matter what I set my thermostats at, the heat in the house never really gets to that level. Then, suddenly, the heat will come on and the house will get nice and comfortable for a few hours, then it will turn off again. The worst is my bedroom which is upstairs. Typically, when I wake up in the morning, the thermostat shows that it's only 51 degrees in my bedroom even though the temperature is set to 67 degrees! So my boiler/furnace is definitey dead and I'll need to replace it. So there goes my tax return and probably a thousand dollars or so of my savings. That's only if it's just the boiler/furnace that's screwed up. If the pipework that carries the warm water throughout the house is also screwed up, then I'm in some trouble because I don't think I have enough money to cover the massive cost those repairs would entail, and I'd be forced to put it all on my credit card and be financially screwed for a while.

                To make things worse, my health has been deteriorating quite a bit and I now have that to worry about. I came down with the flu at the very end of last year through the first week of this year. I was put on anti-virals to kill the flu virus, which worked great, but my weakened state led to the development of bronchitis and a sinus/ear infection. So I was put on some antibiotics for two weeks. The antibiotics, I believe, are what wreaked havoc on my lower bowels as I was shooting out Folger's coffee while taking the antibiotics. The thing that kind of bothers me, however, is that the sore throat I was developing which made me think I had a sinus infection never really went away. It lowered in intensity for a little while, but has come back really strong.

                My tonsils are a deep blood red in color, as is the tissue around it. My right tonsil has these weird red strands on them like pieces of string. The glands in the side of my neck are swelling up quite a bit, and the constant nausea and loose bowels is getting me worried. I work in the pharmaceutical industry, so I see a lot of cases of some pretty nasty conditions in the patient data I review, so of course I'm probably thinking that I'm coming down with something that I'm probably not. (I don't have a fever). Even without the fever, the sore throat for 3 weeks, the swollen glands in my neck, the pain that is constant and occassionally spreads into my ears, the nausea, the lack of appetite, the lower bowel issues, and just a feeling of "blah" makes me concerned. I've been a Type I Diabetic for 27.5 years now, and a lot of these feelings I have are a LOT like what it feels like when I'm hyperglycemic. Especially the constant thirst. But the thing is, my blood sugars have been golden lately. So I have no idea what this problem is and I'm trying to find a doctor I can see on the weekend as I'm too busy at work to take time off.

                Ugggggh. So with the boiler/furnace problem and this illness hitting me, things ain't going so great.

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                • DTX3
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Jun 2003
                  • 13022

                  #83
                  Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

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                  • aukevin
                    War Eagle, Go Braves!
                    • Dec 2002
                    • 14700

                    #84
                    Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                    Originally posted by DTX3
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                    • Stumbleweed
                      Livin' the dream
                      • Oct 2006
                      • 6279

                      #85
                      Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                      Originally posted by Longhorn
                      I wonder what you're growing.
                      Heh, lots of stuff actually. I'm planning on some nice heirloom tomatoes, probably cucumbers, and a wide variety of herbs... I love having fresh produce around at all times, so I'm going to use the indoor garden for some of that. I'm gonna have a large above-ground "square-foot garden" box outside in the backyard too for root veggies (carrots, hopefully some potatoes, squashes), so I should be pretty stocked on produce come late Summer. I really want to grow a lemon tree, but CO isn't really the place for that... maybe I can do a small one indoors.

                      Nothing more rewarding than growing your own stuff, whatever it may be. :wink:
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                      • Sting
                        Banned
                        • Nov 2004
                        • 3825

                        #86
                        Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                        Originally posted by DTX3
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                        • Buckeyes_Doc
                          In Dalton I Trust
                          • Jan 2009
                          • 11918

                          #87
                          Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                          I'm getting $2,100 back overall. I'm going to put a lot of it towards my car payment as I'm trying to pay that off, still have a long way to go. Anything left will me used for whatever my wife see fit.
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                          • DTX3
                            Hall Of Fame
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 13022

                            #88
                            Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                            Originally posted by aukevin
                            That's the way to do it!
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                            • mjb2124
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Aug 2002
                              • 13649

                              #89
                              Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                              Originally posted by FlyingFinn
                              You are having too much money taken out of your check. You should reduce the amount removed from your check and put it in a interest bearing account rather then letting the federal gov't keep it for you without paying you interest.
                              Originally posted by mgoblue
                              Seriously...if you're getting more than 1k back then you need to look at your tax setup and make some adjustments...they're taking way too much out for you.
                              Hmm... I usually get around $4000 back, but I'm pretty sure that my wife and I filled out our W4's correctly so that we get the least taken out of our paychecks (filing jointly and we both listed each other as dependents...I suppose I could list myself and her and she could list herself and me though). Same theory...we don't want the government to handle our money throughout the year that we could invest.

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                              • WTF
                                MVP
                                • Aug 2002
                                • 20274

                                #90
                                Re: What are YOU going to do with your tax return money ?

                                Well, looks like we're buying a new sectional couch with our return, and a video camera for the upcoming baby... Hopefully we'll have enough to buy a nice dinner, and call it a year...
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