If you get a tax return, what do you do with it? Save it, spend it, use it as play money and buy something fun?
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When I was single I would just throw it at debt or living expenses.
Sometimes I'd go shopping and buy a pair of shoes 
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We put it towards a new roof.
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Usually it's for our yearly vacation but this year towards home renovations. boooo not quite as fun!
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no idea, usually it just goes in the with the money pool
but last year we got a LOT back from getting married and used it to go on a real honeymoon!
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Paid off some credit card debt and got somethings we've been holding off on.
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First year filing together and we saved all of it. In the past I would buy something nice and save the rest!
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It goes in the savings account, along with my bonuses. Boring!
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both.
this year we're using it for vacations to visit DH's family and saving the rest -
Voted spend, but really depends. If there's something we want or need like a new computer.. Otherwise, just goes to our bank account. =( except for this year.... Paying boatload.
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We paid off a little credit card debt that had built up.
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We put it in our future kiddo's savings account.
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We used it to pay off a credit card and buy a new couch.
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We're saving it, but only temporarily. We're going to Italy in October and it'll be funding our flights.
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We used it for some things we needed to take care of, put money away for DD & then saved a little bit.
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Normally I'd just save it. This year, we're hoping to use it as part of a down payment on our first house!
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Paying bills and maybe a home project.
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Ha ha... People get refunds?! I'm proud to do my civic duty, but we definitely owed this year.
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We probably should change our withholdings. My husband still has his on no dependents so between me working just a little and having a baby we got back a lot of money.
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If I ever got a return, I'd save it. Most of the time I owe, which is perfectly fine by me. I prefer to keep my money working for me.
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Dh's ex-wife got to spend it all. And spend she did, the girls are decked out in new clothes and have a rainbow of Tom's. That's what not working for 6 months will get you!
It's times like these that I wish I could still file single with one dependent, I use to get so much back!!! Now that we're married we get barely half of what I use to, how does that work exactly? lol
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we only got back a couple hundred bucks, so it went right into savings.
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@looch: I agree. I'm probably getting better return on that money than if I paid out during the year.
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Ha! Mine was spent before I got it. We went to Vegas with it.
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I wish we got a return! If we did it would pay off debt.
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Right now I file quarterly, so when we get a refund, we just roll it over and apply it to next year's estimated quarterly taxes. Then I put the extra cash that we don't have to spend on our quarterly taxes into our saving account. I like this system better than getting a refund check, which I used to immediately blow on something fun (but not necessary).
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@pastemoo: I had always heard you got more money back the year you got married...but we got less! 1500 less than I got when I was single! Man, I wonder what I did wrong...
Sometimes I'd go shopping and buy a pair of shoes 
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