Reply #13: It all goes into one big pot

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I'll either need it to pay taxes or will use it to fill my tank. I usually try to pay off any time payments (credit cards) whenever I can in full. I love the farmer's market, we have a fantastic one, it is so vibrant and busy! I may use a portion of the money to pay the CSA membership.

I don't go to Walmart, ever. We have a local grocer chain here called Wegmans which is my favorite but can be expensive when you load up on gourmet goodies, although their meat is expensive. However, I don't think their clean meat (no antibiotics or additives) is more expensive than the grass fed meat I've purchased from farms. I will buy some of their stuff too sometimes but it is very expensive.

I don't purchase sweatshop clothes anymore. I mostly buy from the thrift stores (rescue mission, salvation army), or sew my own. But I do end up buying new for my son and I wish there were more alt-teens focused shops that don't stock their stores from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Korea, and China--he likes Hot Topic. Luckily he is no clothes horse and we do make our own cool tshirts (reclaimed). My husband orders his union made from a firm in Texas--mostly work clothes, he is an IBEW journeyman electrician.

I am bugged we don't have much choice in regards to elecronics. I enjoy Apple products and I wish they built them here.

There are many in my rust belt town looking forward to these checks. I don't think we ever hit the kind of real estate boom that happened through other communities around the US, I think our tax rates effectively dampens that.