It's tax season! How are you using your refund?

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    To pay another payment towards my house.

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  • gp79
    gp79 Posts: 1,799 Member
    We pay our rent for the year with ours. :smile:

    That's smart.

    Smart might be filling out a new w-4. lol
  • nikkijay25
    nikkijay25 Posts: 42 Member
    Trip to South Beach to show off my new body, credit card bills, and savings,
  • CFAITH_WARD
    CFAITH_WARD Posts: 281 Member
    We are hoping to pay off bills and if there is enough take my son to Disney World.....We haven't had any vacation in atleast four yrs.
  • secrets_out
    secrets_out Posts: 684 Member
    Treadmill and eliptical
  • raines_eric
    raines_eric Posts: 49
    I'm not sure what the government is doing with the $4500 I'm paying them.
  • MILFdoesabodyGd
    MILFdoesabodyGd Posts: 347 Member
    We pay our rent for the year with ours. :smile:

    That's smart.

    I forgot to mention that. We are either moving to a bigger place or paying our rent up a few months. I'm job hunting, graduated from dental school in Oct. We may wait til I get a job to move.
  • roberts1013
    roberts1013 Posts: 103 Member
    I have zero debt so all mine goes into savings!
  • bhalter
    bhalter Posts: 582 Member
    I already have my fiance and I's budgeted out:

    - big chunk into wedding account
    - paying off engagement ring
    - buying our wedding bands
    - paying off Best Buy bill
    - new iPhone for my fiance since his contract will be up next month
    - some to his mom who helped furnish bedroom furniture and clothes when he got custody of his daughter
    - and then a little bit left over for spending money

    And hopefully the government will do what they're supposed to and garnish his daughter's deadbeat mom's tax return and send him a check for the $1000+ she currently owes us already, so that we'll have expenses paid for her for the next 6 months and can save save save any extra money of our own.
  • MILFdoesabodyGd
    MILFdoesabodyGd Posts: 347 Member
    I'm not sure what the government is doing with the $4500 I'm paying them.

    this is why I said for those of us getting a refund. I know a lot of friends who don't get a refund. One day I am sure will be me too.
  • kiesh82
    kiesh82 Posts: 131 Member
    I don't get much of a refund b/c my exemptions are such that I get my money in my paycheck rather than have Uncle Sam hold it til tax time. If I did get a big refund check I'd pay down debt and save at least 20%.
  • determined2lose89
    determined2lose89 Posts: 342 Member
    I WANT to use it to put towards a vacation next year. However, I SHOULD split it in half and pay off debt and buy a new table and chairs for the kitchen.
  • kmtetour
    kmtetour Posts: 300 Member
    Bills.... ugh. Hopefully I get this promotion at work and my finances won't be so bad in the future.
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    I'm not sure what the government is doing with the $4500 I'm paying them.

    You're getting it worse than me. But it sucks paying in when you see the huge amount they take out of every check already.
  • hefinator
    hefinator Posts: 260
    It's going right to the Vegas fund. I have some friends getting married in May at the little white chapel. So I'm planning on partying quite hard. I'll need bail and gambling money. Also, I may need to buy new clothes, I'm looking to be down another 30 pounds approx. by then.

    HAHA!! This is what mine is going for too!! my good friends are getting married in mid April in Vegas, so I need to be able to afford the trip, the fun, and a pretty bridesmaid dress!! hoping to be down about 25lbs by the time we leave!
  • Catzwitch
    Catzwitch Posts: 205 Member
    to pay the divorce lawyer!!!


    I wish!!! My tax refund gets kept by the IRS because when we filed jointly my hubs f'd me royally and we owe the IRS over $5k in back taxes!

    Haven't been with the dude in nearly 4 years but can't afford to pay for the divorce. :(
  • MILFdoesabodyGd
    MILFdoesabodyGd Posts: 347 Member
    Treadmill and eliptical

    ooh if I had room in this tiny apt that would be on my list too!
  • Behavior_Modification
    Behavior_Modification Posts: 24,482 Member
    Ugh. Medical Bills. :grumble:
  • cℓaire1185
    cℓaire1185 Posts: 6
    Get the car fixed.
  • kmtetour
    kmtetour Posts: 300 Member
    What's a refund? Do you realize it was your money to begin with?

    Yeah, but we didn't have it in our hot little hands to spend. There's the difference. I see it as a form of savings account! So the government makes interest with my money over the course of the year, then sends it back to me to spend on things.
  • rjmwx81
    rjmwx81 Posts: 259 Member
    Not getting a refund. I decided I don't want to give the Federal government an interest-free loan for 11 months every year, so I adjusted my withholding. I owe something like $7. Meanwhile, what *would* have been my tax refund has been sitting in my bank all year, earning interest for *ME* and not the government.
  • mfkfoster
    mfkfoster Posts: 331 Member
    new roof for the house.
  • MILFdoesabodyGd
    MILFdoesabodyGd Posts: 347 Member
    to pay the divorce lawyer!!!


    I wish!!! My tax refund gets kept by the IRS because when we filed jointly my hubs f'd me royally and we owe the IRS over $5k in back taxes!

    Haven't been with the dude in nearly 4 years but can't afford to pay for the divorce. :(

    I got screwed the year I got divorced with taxes too. I had a refund coming to me but we filed jointly so he just kept it all!!! buttholes
  • Hoppymom
    Hoppymom Posts: 1,158 Member
    A refund..what's that? Since the kids have all moved out and finshed college we get no refund. If we get one I'd probably have enough to by a Tic-tac. I so need to win the lottery.
  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    Savings. Hopefully my refund isn't very big this year.
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    We get a refund, but not huge. We re-arranged our deductions so we have the money and not the guv'mint.
  • NicolCook
    NicolCook Posts: 489 Member
    Saving most of it back so I have the money when it comes time to go to court with the Ex!
    Still in the beginning stages of paperwork, so I want to be prepared :)
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Wife is going to Germany in May for two weeks. She'll take most of it for spending money. I'll spend the rest on booze, cigars and hookers while she's gone.
  • inktink
    inktink Posts: 135 Member
    A down payment for the 2012 Passat I'm getting (can't keep my 4 seater convertible with this baby on the way :P) and my husband is getting new tires for his truck. Whatever's left goes to more stuff for the baby :)
  • Fit4_Life
    Fit4_Life Posts: 828 Member
    :tongue: Escort service! :laugh:
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