The question asked in title of thread is self explanatory.
Personally although I am a retired state employee, get a monthly pension check which I assume will continue,
and thus am obviously not affected in the same way that someone who was laid off is, my wife and I will use
part of the money to pay bills and for other items we need because of the Virus which we did not previously..
In addition we plan to donate a yet undetermined part for charity and needed causes because of the impact
of the Virus.
Along the same lines, in the interest of full disclosure, believe me when I tell you that although the money
I lost on paper is the stock market is plenty as it is with anyone else who stayed in longer then they should have(thankfully over
the last few weeks my professionally managed investment service has sold plenty bringing me to around 70% in cash).
That said, for me losing a lot of money on paper means ZERO in comparison to the severity of this Crisis in comparison
to what has meant to others both financially speaking and more importantly to those who have been infested with the Virus
or worse, lost a loved one.
I realize that I got a bit ot with the concluding part of this post, elaborating on my own personal situation and editorial.
Imo though the question posed in the title of the thread is a relevant, and hopefully some folks will post how they spend their stipend
as well as anything else they wish to add-imo many people will be interested in reading what you have to day and may give
them some ideas as to what to do with their own stipend.
STAY STRONG AND BE SAFE, EVERYONE!!
Personally although I am a retired state employee, get a monthly pension check which I assume will continue,
and thus am obviously not affected in the same way that someone who was laid off is, my wife and I will use
part of the money to pay bills and for other items we need because of the Virus which we did not previously..
In addition we plan to donate a yet undetermined part for charity and needed causes because of the impact
of the Virus.
Along the same lines, in the interest of full disclosure, believe me when I tell you that although the money
I lost on paper is the stock market is plenty as it is with anyone else who stayed in longer then they should have(thankfully over
the last few weeks my professionally managed investment service has sold plenty bringing me to around 70% in cash).
That said, for me losing a lot of money on paper means ZERO in comparison to the severity of this Crisis in comparison
to what has meant to others both financially speaking and more importantly to those who have been infested with the Virus
or worse, lost a loved one.
I realize that I got a bit ot with the concluding part of this post, elaborating on my own personal situation and editorial.
Imo though the question posed in the title of the thread is a relevant, and hopefully some folks will post how they spend their stipend
as well as anything else they wish to add-imo many people will be interested in reading what you have to day and may give
them some ideas as to what to do with their own stipend.
STAY STRONG AND BE SAFE, EVERYONE!!
