What to do with your stimulus check...the common sense answer
Someone was good enough the other day to forward me an email with a message that, if taken to heart, should result in a profound boost in the local economy. The message was a word to the wise regarding the current stimulus check that if you have not yet received, should be coming your way any day now.
If the government had it their way, we'd take that check and go out to spend it on a vehicle or a new TV or appliance, which they tell us would of course, in turn, stimulate the economy. Well, some very wise person (probably a woman, I've deduced), has generated a better plan and tells why.
She explains that it would be pointless to spend your stimulus check at Wal-Mart…your money would go to China, at best. And if you take a road trip and use it for fuel, the Arabs will benefit from your spending. If you buy a computer, your money will go to Indian and if you shop for groceries, your stimulus check will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala for the produce you buy. Purchase a new car and your cash will likely end up in Japan. Toys and games and it'll end up in Taiwan.
SO, what's the answer? What kind of spending will go right back into the hands of the American people? YARD SALES!!!! Of course!! It's simply ingenious. Go out and buy a bunch of someone else's junk. Then come home and have your own yard sale. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
And the advice couldn't have come at a better time, with the 100-Mile Yard Sale right around the corner, slated for Memorial Day weekend. You buy my junk and I'll buy yours. Who cares if you have a dog or not? That little red, white and blue All-American dog sweater will look great for the 4th of July right around the corner. And who couldn't use 12 Danielle Steele romance novels for a quarter apiece? Resell 'em next weekend.
There's no need to go to Wal-Mart and buy garden tools. You can buy anything from a shovel to a petunia at a yard sale, including a hanging pot with a handmade macramé holder from which to suspend your petunia. And if 50 cents is more than your budget can take today, all prices are negotiable.
It's the perfect answer. We spend….we sell….we reap….we win! It's as simple as that. So, next weekend, as you're driving through Southeast Missouri and you see tables set up along a 100-mile stretch of Highway 25 between Jackson and Kennett, pull over and join the crowd. There's bound to be a Maxine coffee cup that reads, "Finding a good man is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree," that has your name all over it!
Till then….happy hunting. And remember….don't send that check overseas!
Minnie o'
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