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Anyone else buy a bass with their stimulus?
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Yeah. Without being overtly political, I make too much for party X to care about and not enough for party Y to care about.
Same here. But annual bonus in early March has led me to build a bass thru the Fender Mod Shop. Will post an NBD when it’s complete.
):I was first going to buy a T-Bird but then I felt the neck on these Fender Ultras and that pushed it back on the list.
Nice!
I also got a used Tama kit for around 3, then spent 6 on cymbals.... ‘cause life’s too short for crappy cymbals.
Now I’m spending another couple on some new heads.
Maybe someday I’ll actually learn to play them. Lol
Put in an order for a Maruszcszyk.
I was planning on a nice built to order bass for my 40th next month anyhow.
I was planning on a nice built to order bass for my 40th next month anyhow.
Thought about it, getting a tattoo instead and saving the rest towards the down payment on a house. Hard to justify another bass after buying one less than a year ago when there’s no gigs on the horizon!
The $1,400 stimulus will perhaps cover the income taxes that I owe on my Federal supplemental unemployment from last year (the "extra $600 per week" thing). There was no option to have them tax that money up front, so anyone who got it is on the hook for about $100 per week that they received the extra $600.
Uncle Sam is gonna get a fat-ass pay day from all of us this year and next. Half the nation has been placed into serious tax debt by "qualifying" for this money. People who are used to getting money back every year are going to end up anywhere from getting nothing to owing thousands.
As opposed to giving us another check, they should have forgiven unemployment taxes during the pandemic. But they'd rather dole out a [relatively] little bit of cold, hard cash now, and put half the nation in serious debt to them.
Uncle Sam is gonna get a fat-ass pay day from all of us this year and next. Half the nation has been placed into serious tax debt by "qualifying" for this money. People who are used to getting money back every year are going to end up anywhere from getting nothing to owing thousands.
As opposed to giving us another check, they should have forgiven unemployment taxes during the pandemic. But they'd rather dole out a [relatively] little bit of cold, hard cash now, and put half the nation in serious debt to them.
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Ours went in the bank. Honestly don't have the storage space for another bass, unless of course GAS happens to strike. Am thinking about a golf membership though.
Thump on,
One_Dude
Thump on,
One_Dude
Did either of you skip filing your 2019 taxes, and/or not put your name into the sign-up Website?
I didn't get my first stimulus until I filed my 2019 taxes, months after most people got theirs. Once the taxes were in, the stimulus check was in my mail box within two weeks.
No stimulus checks here in Canada but I did just pick this bass up on the weekend:
I’m getting a new tattoo with my stimulus. But I did just happen to buy a SBMM Ray34 QM.
And people are happy that both borrowed 14k from us and gave some 1k back as hush money. Knowing it it will cost us much more when both raise taxes on everything to pay it back.
That 1k won't cover that cost. We all loss again.
Or they could not take 75% of that money and send to foreign nations and their own pockets.
That we will pay back with higher taxes.
I hate to sound like a stick in the mud, but I plan on paying my property taxes and car insurance. How effin' boring is that?! 
Maybe, if there's anything left over that is, I'll treat myself to some Taco Bell.
Maybe, if there's anything left over that is, I'll treat myself to some Taco Bell.
Stimulus or not, I am a proud owner of many american made basses. (some of them on the pic below):
I'm another still due a current check but don't expect the corrupt / inept IRS to manage the basics and won't bother watching for a $tim deposit, I'd rather give it to the truly needy anyway.
fortunately the only thing I need bass-wise is a new insert on my $30 Ibby P bass and along with my bolt-on Epi T-Bird IV GAS is a thing of the past. don't quote me on that but what killer basses!
dueling NBD ...how can you say no to a nice P for (almost) free?
now it's in the hands of the corrupt / inept Social Security office if I'll even get that done by a tech in this lifetime lol a new soldering iron would be the only thing I envision any outlay for right now.
fortunately the only thing I need bass-wise is a new insert on my $30 Ibby P bass and along with my bolt-on Epi T-Bird IV GAS is a thing of the past. don't quote me on that but what killer basses!
dueling NBD ...how can you say no to a nice P for (almost) free?
now it's in the hands of the corrupt / inept Social Security office if I'll even get that done by a tech in this lifetime lol a new soldering iron would be the only thing I envision any outlay for right now.
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