I know I shouldn't care about how others spend their tax money...but

[Tatumsmommy0123]

I am seriously annoyed with everyone that is getting their tax returns back and blowing it.  The same people that are complaining about not having any money the rest of the year...I mean, it's really NONE of my business, but when I see them bragging about all the useless shit that they bought because they got their taxes back...it just erks me.  Especially if they were just bitching 2 weeks ago about not having enough money for whatever else.  Maybe I'm just bitter...I didn't get hardly any money back this year.  Maybe I should count my blessings, because we were thinking that we may have had to pay.  But when one week you are asking for handouts, and the next week you go to the salon and have your nails done, or getting a new tattoo?  Something isn't right with that picture...But hey...whatever...If I were in that financial position, I think I would be saving my tax money for when times got tough again...

[armywife0424]

My husband abd I did half n half. We saved laid off a credit card and bought a new tv. I think it's ok to splurge a little but I get annoyed too with the people who need assistance to get by abd they just blow any chance at having an emergency fund saved up. Oh will we can't change it.

[TheBabyFactory4]

I agree with you. We had to use half of our money to pay bills and saving most of the rest for baby things and extra things the kids need and stuff

[JG86]

I agree. I'm amazed by how many people complain how broke they are, and then brag about spending their 5K tax return on useless crap.

[KPNJ2009]

I am getting next to nothing since I fell in the less than 5% tax bracket but those few hundred dollars are going straight to my savings account. I hear ya I dont understand how people literally blow off 5k in a month??

[mom_of_one_2010]

I'm getting dental work I need done, ds might get new cloths, a new car seat and the rest will be in savings, as dh wants it. I need new cloths & so dose dh but he won't budge on being any

[nqmochafrappe]

Yep!

Quoting JG86:

I agree. I'm amazed by how many people complain how broke they are, and then brag about spending their 5K tax return on useless crap.

[beco8627]

I wish that I could just go blow $6000....ours had to go straight to Debt....however, I DID buy my boys some new clothes because I was sick of seeing them in high waters!

[army_wifey_06]

I agree! Pretty much everyone I know who has gotten their tax return back has blown it on tattoos and other stuff. Yet these are the same people who are ALWAYS complaining about not having money. We just got dh's W2 like a week ago, so we haven't filed yet but when we get our money back it's all going into savings. 

[nqmochafrappe]

I keep reading $5000! Who got that? Not us...i admit I probably would've blown 90% or all but I need serious dental work and i've put myself last for the past 9yrs. So it would seriously not go on crap! It'd be the best $ever spent:) i'm saving it to accumulate enough to do just that but still have some saved after as well, I hate feeling broke!

[ermka]

I think a little bit of a splurge is okay, but I also think having that emergency fund is vital. We aren't getting much back this year either, what we are is going to fix my car so it'll pass inspection, paying off some bills & the rest is going into savings.

I've never actually posted about this, but in a small effort to shove the ideal into someone else's brain, I'm gonna hijack your post for a second. Forgive me.

Last spring, my dh and I came into a HUGE amount of money. We paid off a few debts (not the ones we should have, like maybe the car, my student loans.. because we're idiots) paid bills a few months ahead & blew through the rest. 5 months later (we received the money at the end of May), the first week of October, we were broke, no income whatsoever, no way to pay our bills, nothing. My family helped out as much as they could and and my husband was finally able to find a job mid-Nov. If we had been smarter with the money we received, we would still be doing really well, but the fact of the matter is, we aren't & now we have a bunch of stuff (a lot of which we rarely use) that is nothing more than stuff, it's not a roof over our heads, electricity, heat, food, car payments (all things that we are now still struggling to pay). We've gone without a lot for the last few months, simply because the though of needing money again in the future wasn't something that we could bring ourselves to fathom.

Please people, learn from our idiocy.. it's not (or at least all of it isn't) just "fun money".. it's "oh crap my husband lost his job how are we going to pay our bills, wait we have savings to soften the blow" money. Think on it!

Lol.. thanks again OP.. went off on a little tangent :)