If You Get A Stimulus Check?

Well, supposedly checks will soon be mailed out! If you get one will you buy yourself a coin? Any coin in particular? Silver, gold, ancient? I'll go first, yes, probably a small gold coin but we'll see! Anyone?

 

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El Banco, pronto.

 

Indeed, means I can get more things fixed in my house.

 

I'll go with a pan/pac $1.00 gold half by me half by Uncle Sam need it to fill set! Happy Holidays Nice Thread

 

I don't get a check. I have direct deposit. I have more important things to spend the money on like food, rent & utilities.

 

Don’t qualify.

 

no

it will goto food and pay bills

 

There are them that have and them that don't.

 

This year other things taking precidence

 

The first round of stimulus checks went to the education investment accounts for our grandsons. We just had our first granddaughter and she'll be the recipient of this round of checks.

 

If you can afford to use it to buy a coin you should donate it to somebody that needs it. You want trinkets while people are starving.

 

If I get one I will blow it all on Peace Dollars to complete my Dansco.

 

Same as I did with the stimulus checks that my wife and I got last spring (before she died) - gave the money to charities that help feed the poor. They need it more than we do.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...s-checks-coming-here-s-what-you-need-n1251929

 

I see where you're coming from but this line of thinking is duly misguided. This can be said for all collectors who use their essentially excess wealth of whatever amount, from whatever sources, to buy coins. I mean, how is this different when someone uses their savings to buy coins when they could just as well not buy said coins and use it to help those in need?

And I'm not sure if you're referring to the world in general but there is a lot of support and resources in Western countries to help those in need. There are soup kitchens, food banks, EBT cards, etc. Believe it or not but most grocery stores are horribly wasteful. Such stores throw out blocks of perfectly good cheese into dumpsters and do the same with perfectly good "day old" bread. And the perfectly good bottles of orange juice that are out of date on the label by a day? Straight to the dumpster.

This is where your energy, in my view, could be more constructively focused: reforming the wasteful culture of grocery stores and the needlessly excessive food waste overall in wealthy countries. Those who want to use their stimulus checks to buy coins? It's not something I'd worry about too much in the grand scheme of things.

 

Boooooooooooring...

 

So let's have the needy throwaways so I can have a shiny gold coin. If you can afford to buy something as frivolous as a coin with stimulus money you really don't need it.

 

Correction. I was just pleasantly informed (like 15 minutes ago), that I might qualify? If I get it? Which STILL remains to be seen? I’ll just put it into my bank account. Or maybe, give it to someone else. A family member or a friend? Why not?

 

That's what I say. This money isn't intended for people to increase their numismatic portfolio.

 

It is labeled a stimulus check. They actually want to infuse the money into the economy in various ways. The payment is meant to stimulate the economy by being spent. Buying a numismatic collectible is no less a stimulus to the economy than using the money to buy a shirt, golf clubs, a book, tires for your car, ammo, dance lessons for a child, etc.