The 45th most popular search today on Google is "Where is my stimulus check?" It's amazing that something you didn't expect to get you now start to count on and spend in your head before it gets here.
What are you going to do with this "free" money? I am going to finish paying off my credit card. Just what Shrub does not want me to do with it, but I refuse to be a consumer puppet propping up an unsustainable consumer landfill economy.
Be subversive - here are some things you could do with your stimulus check besides spend it on disposable consumer goods.
1. Pay an extra mortgage payment.
2. Put in in a Roth IRA.
3. Pay off a credit card.
4. Put it in a college savings plan for your kids.
5. Make an extra car payment.
6. Do you have a big enough cash savings? Open a savings account with this money and forget about it.
7. Open a brokerage account and buy some well managed no load mutual fund shares. See Roth IRA above.
Still wanting to know where your check or direct deposit is? Here's the schedule from irs.gov.
DIRECT DEPOSIT
| Last two SSN digits: | Payments will be transmitted no later than: |
| 00 through 20 | May 2 |
| 21 through 75 | May 9 |
| 76 through 99 | May 16 |
PAPER CHECK
| Last two SSN digits: | Payments will be mailed no later than: |
| 00 through 09 | May 16 |
| 10 through 18 | May 23 |
|
19 through 25 |
May 30 |
| 26 through 38 | June 6 |
| 39 through 51 | June 13 |
| 52 through 63 | June 20 |
| 64 through 75 | June 27 |
| 76 through 87 | July 4 |
| 88 through 99 | July 11 |
