Stimulus Check

I have not talked about this much on the blog- but if our calculations are correct, our economic stimulus check will be here on Friday. What are you doing with yours? We're being totally boring and predictable and sending ours to our debt. One of the key tenants of frugality is to not go crazy with your windfalls and raises and birthday gifts from grandma, so we're being responsible and all that jazz.

Somedays we do fantasize about throwing of the shackles of responsibility and going nuts. Who doesn't wake up in the morning and want to fly first class to Paris for dinner? Or get a shiny plasma TV and DVR to go with it? Sometimes, especially when we read headlines like this, we wonder why we keep trying, keep cutting costs, keep trying to get totally debt free, including the mortgage. I'm pretty sure it will be worth it, but some days, I get distracted by the shiny.