andrew dodson

So… by this point, most of you have probably received your IRS economic stimulus checks. The government’s way of trying to motivate us to buy big ticket items. By most accounts that I’m hearing, people plan on socking the checks away. Mostly due to uncertainty about the economy down the road - gas & food prices going up and so forth.

The great majority of my stimulus has gone straight to my savings account as well. But, I did make one purchase. You would think that someone like me that loves gadgets would’ve already had this piece of technology. I took a small portion of my check, along with some money from recording jobs, and bought a surround sound system. In the realm of these systems, it’s definitely on the lower end in terms of price, but I’m pretty happy with it. It’s a Philips system. So… I sort of compromised. I spent some of it, but I’m socking the rest away.