Plans for tax refunds...

christy Posted: Mar 21, 2004 02:18 PM

Plans for tax refunds...

Do you and DH have plans on how to use your refunds...or do you just save the money?

Last year of course it went right to the wedding. This year we are debating saving the money...or maybe buying some additional furniture.

Just curious what others do.

kdelace Posted: Mar 21, 2004 02:21 PM

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i used my tax refund to pay for balance of wedding- hall. got money 2 days before hall $ was due.. talk about perfect timing. my husband is putting towards his credit card- we put honeymoon on there... next year its going towards house fund! i know - how boring!

christy Posted: Mar 21, 2004 02:26 PM

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It is good to have a plan though!

kdelace Posted: Mar 21, 2004 02:36 PM

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i have to admit- i used a tiny bit (heehee) from my check to buy some cute new clothes for the honeymoon..

lilmrs Posted: Mar 21, 2004 02:39 PM

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we are using it for a mortgage payment...Yes, I know we are boring too.

Dani00518 Posted: Mar 21, 2004 03:18 PM

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we are saving ours in the 'house buying fund'

btrflygrl Posted: Mar 21, 2004 03:23 PM

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saving for the house

97bride Posted: Mar 21, 2004 03:35 PM

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We use ours every year for some sort of home improvement project. Not sure what project it's going to be this year yet.

dgtlsunshine Posted: Mar 21, 2004 08:05 PM

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Pay DH tuition...how fun is that ....boring

AmyKay Posted: Mar 21, 2004 08:44 PM

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into the savings account for closing costs

pschica Posted: Mar 21, 2004 09:37 PM

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we will find out tomorrow how much (if any!) we are getting but hope to save half and use half for some of the 'home improvements' we need!

Sonicstef Posted: Mar 21, 2004 10:17 PM

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We arent getting a refund

karen32 Posted: Mar 21, 2004 10:18 PM

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we are using part of it for a 6-month anniversary cruise. woo-hoo!!!! we didn't think we would be able to plan any vacation this year, but we got an awesome deal on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

the rest is going into savings.

merf99 Posted: Mar 21, 2004 10:44 PM

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Most of it is going towards our car insurance. How fun! Then I think the remainder of it went to airline tickets we already bought.

Sassyz75 Posted: Mar 21, 2004 11:11 PM

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tax refund? what's a tax refund? we aren't getting anything- we owe!

VickiC Posted: Mar 22, 2004 08:40 AM

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We got a nice refund this year, so we are putting it into a separate bank account to save for a trip to Key West with our friends next year.

AndrewsChick Posted: Mar 22, 2004 09:35 AM

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Our original plan was to just put it into our 'saving for a house fund', and then 2 weeks later, DH's car needed almost $700 in repairs and then a week after that, my car needed $450 worth of work. So although we still saved some money, we didn't get to save as much as we would have liked.

Betty Posted: Mar 22, 2004 09:45 AM

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We haven't fully decided yet. Originally it was going towards the house fund but we are thinking about putting it towards a car instead (jeep cherokee probably). We are planning on TTC in the winter and will need a bigger car. We also plan to start looking for houses next year so I suggested that we buy the car THIS year so we won't have to buy a car, have a baby and buy a house all at the same time. We are still discussing it........