$624

By D M

8 Mar

This is the amount of my tax return.

I’m in the enviable position, this year, of not needing this money. A small portion will be donated (via my usual outlets) to charities that serve the homeless. Everything else is really taken care of: retirement accts: check. Bills paid: check. Figure I’ve got about $550 left over.
So it’s time to treat myself! I’m going to get…

Well, shit. The best I can come up with at this point is a PS2 version of Resident Evil 4. So I can play the alternate story.

That’s kinda lame. I’m just really, really bad at buying gifts for myself. I’ve got a birthday coming up and everything, so I can pretty much justify buying whatever crazy shit I want. I just don’t seem to want that much. (Not that theThunder 1M isn’t cool, I just don’t need it.)

So I turn to the blog. Suggestions, anyone? I’m cashing Unkle Sam’s check today.

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10 Responses for "$624"

Toftie March 8th, 2006 at 1:15 pm 1
I wish my bills left me with $550 extra. The trials of owning a house: you get a big tax return but it goes right back into the house or paying your sister back for a trip to the wine country. argh.
MomG March 8th, 2006 at 1:22 pm 2
Don’t forget the homeless along the Gulf Coast. They really need us.
Kables March 8th, 2006 at 3:16 pm 3
I got like $2300 back. Quittin’ my job and going to school, you know? BUT they just hacked part of my financial aid, so there goes that chunk o’ change . . .
Kerry G. March 8th, 2006 at 3:25 pm 4
Leave it to my mom to think of something nice. Here are my selfish ideas: concert tickets, sporting event tickets, Nintendo DS lite, mp3 player, XM radio, save for a vacation, whole lot of beer, dvd box sets, tons of video games, take friends out for drinks. That’s all I’ve got right now.
Aaron March 8th, 2006 at 3:51 pm 5
I got $1400 back (and I could’ve gotten a hundred or so more if I had remembered to decuct the interest on my student loan payments.) Of course, it’s all gone now, as it went to purchase a big, shiny rock for someone’s finger.

As for suggestions: take that six hundred bone and buy yourself a nice scooter or moped. Oil is gonna hit $100 a barrel before the end of this year.
D M March 8th, 2006 at 4:13 pm 6
Already have a car-I feel it’s irresponsible, not to mention impracticle, to own a scooter (in Portland) as well. It’s why I don’t own an Xbox. I already have a PS2, and a GC was bought for me as a present-to contribute to that greed bothers me.

I have not forgotten the South, m’lady, but the homeless is the homeless, wherever you are. Still, I will take your advice and make sure I support the relief efforts that continue to go on there, as well as those in the PacNW.

I also convey my sympathies to those who have bills. I have been in your shoes, and am fortunate, at this point, that I can do what I’m doing.

The friends for drinks thing sounds very pleasing. Perhaps I’ll announce something here, although I don’t think anyone else is in Portland, and buy the first couple rounds for whomever.
A.Ho March 8th, 2006 at 5:20 pm 7
Kegerator.
Melissa March 9th, 2006 at 5:40 am 8
As someone who paid over $30,000 (that is not a typo) to Uncle Sam this past year, I offer you my condolences. I would be so beside myself, nay! bereft with, nay! fraught with anxiety over how to spend the check, it would probably all have to go straight towards a month’s supply of xanax.

Also, I’m bitter about having to pay the IRS. Thanks self-employment and passive income. You’re ~~motherfucking bitches~~ pals.
MomG March 9th, 2006 at 1:23 pm 9
You’re a good man, DM!
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