How? Did the Stimulis help your hobby needs?

Both the first and second went to bills. This latest one (her's and mine) will go to the wife for a down payment on a badly needed newer vehicle for her.

Priorities you know.

    With it and our tax return we're paying off the wifes Escape. This choice should help me stay in the semi retired state I want to enjoy.

The $600 one will pay the fuel bill for a one week mining vacation at the end of April.  Motorhome sucks a lot of fuel in a 1000 mile round trip, and have to take the Jeep and a trailer to haul the gear.

Uncle's $1,400 will go in the bank for help in the house remodel for new subflooring, and insulation in the 1973 mobile home.

Not directly, $2400+$1200 so far, just went to improve overall financial and material health.

I have bought probably 1/2 dozen kits,but would have with or without stimulus 

1 and 2 went into savings.  #3 will be used to partially pay for the new couch I bought after my old one had a catastrophic failure of its reclining mechanism.

I want every dime to go to models and beer.  My wife wants new living room furniture.  Take a big guess who's going to win that battle.

Bills bills and bills.  Having just lost my job there's no hobby $.

Its going into the burial fund.

Gary

First two went to pay down the debt that was rung up in the course of financing all my hobbies.  

Third one likely will as well.  They will have trimmed about 7 months off my self imposed repayment schedule, and brought me that much closer to the debt free life I should have been living all along.

Used both to help pay for kids books and tuition.

Hey TB, you thinking something like this? It's what my last stim check paid for. Been wanting to go digital 35mm for quite a while, so as they say; I has arrived!

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wpwar11

I want every dime to go to models and beer.  My wife wants new living room furniture.  Take a big guess who's going to win that battle.

 

Raindrops in a barrel of debt.

But with things coming back, I have a new job that pays well and is back to my training. I hope to suceed and work into my mid 70's.

Bill

Press on, Billy Boy, press on. And all our best.

It's 'Bill".

Yup!

    Not quite as big, But, you got the idea. I think the one I am looking at is possibly the Son of yours.

Hey,Hey!

      Yeah part that doesn't go to savings and checking will. Gotta have the new Camera  but for sure some more mags and Bullet thingies for my 1911~

Hi Bill! 

   Hey guy, I wish you the best on your new endeavor. Many of us are Better this late in life. You will surpass your hopes. Of that I am sure!

Think modeling is expensive? Ha!
I have the prior edition of this, the T6. I replaced the kit 75-300 with a Canon 55-250 which has image stabilazation, very useful for telephoto. I the added a Canon 10-18. I have uprgraded the 55-250 with a Tamron 18-400.   I picked up a used Canon 50 prime, the classic nifty fifty and a Youngnuo 35. Except for the 10-18, these upgrades were all used at camera stores or eBay. Word of warning...if you get tempted by one of those hundred dollar or so 500mm mirror lenses, run, don't walk, away. Totally useless. 

Advice. If you haven't geta couple spare batteries. You never know when you'll be out and the battery runs out. 

Hi Ajlafleche!

     Oh Boy,you are so right. My old unit was a 1954 Hasselblad with lenses. Bought it from a friend of mine that retired from a newspaper as their prime Photog. The Main Lens was shattered in the concussion wave from the Challenger.I was there with Family to supsuport " Teachers in Space" from my state.

   As far off shore as it was it did seem to pick unusual glass things to be cracked or shattered that day. That camera,as an older 35millimeter film based camera was as dependable as a " Timex" and never gave me any trouble. Couldn't even find a new lens for it. Camera store tried for the better part of the year. Said they no longer made parts for that model.

      So I went to Canon. and my last was a 14- megapixel, turn screen tripod model. I loved it. The " Mother" board? Died. Couldn't afford a new board. It cost more to fix it than get a new one. Wife passed, Bills and all that. Was given a wee little Canon , but because of it's small size I have trouble handling it.

First off, Sorry 'Bill', didn't mean to step on toes.

And Then . . . I've been running Canons for years, specifically the AE-1 Program. I got it and a bunch of lenses (28mm, 50mm, 135mm, a 70-210, and a doubler) and used it to good effect. Unfortunately film and processing are getting ridiculous, both in price and availability.

So, I've finally moved on to digital and absolutely love it.

No, because the pandemic made me an essential worker which increased my working hours (12.5 with commute). So I have plenty of money coming in, but no time with which to spend it. I don't "need" the stimulus because of the mandatory overtime; I have only missed one week of work (last week of March 2020) while the company implemented social distancing protocols in the factory. We were paid unemployment for that week.

Other forms of spending money, going to the movies, out to eat, other forms of entertainment, were eliminated. I have increased my video game playing time at 2:30-3:30 AM.

Yeah;

 I need to stay in the 12 to 15 Megapixel range for Model Trains and my stuff for here.

Tanker-Builder

Yeah;

 I need to stay in the 12 to 15 Megapixel range for Model Trains and my stuff for here.

 

Not one bit of help for my models or anything else. The wife and I don't qualify for the latest giveaway that all taxpaying Americans are funding.

You'll see once inflation starts going through the roof...

Yep - fortunate to not qualify for any of them. 

cbaltrin

You'll see once inflation starts going through the roof...

 

and your taxes go thru the roof as well... somebody has to pay for all the giveaways... what schools seem to fail to teach is that all of the government's money comes from our pockets.