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How People Are Using Their Tax Refund · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: And we won't stop that music commercial free for three
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  Speaker 1: hours beginning at eight twenty here on one of six
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  Speaker 1: pointy seven Light of FM. My name is Cubby, your Nina.
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  Speaker 1: You're in for Christine she's in New Orleans. That's correct,
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  Speaker 1: and producer Kristen is producing behind the scenes. And raise
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  Speaker 1: your hand in the room all three of this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who's getting a refund? If you're getting a tax refund?
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  Speaker 1: Raise your hand.
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  Speaker 2: That's everybody WHOA how about that nice?
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  Speaker 1: We're all getting a tax refund? Yep. Well, a new
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  Speaker 1: survey found that sixty nine percent of Americans are getting
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  Speaker 1: a tax refund this year. Tax refunds can kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel like found money. Keep in mind, it was your
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  Speaker 1: money all along.
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  Speaker 2: They're just taking the interest, right.
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  Speaker 1: But are you gonna use your money to improve your
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  Speaker 1: finances or as a fun reward? What do you think
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  Speaker 1: most people are gonna do? We saw a.
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  Speaker 2: Poll most people thirty three not most people, but the
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  Speaker 2: biggest group of people say they will drop the money
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  Speaker 2: in their savings account. Thirty three percent of Americans smart,
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  Speaker 2: twenty percent will pay down debt.
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  Speaker 1: Also smart, seventeen percent say they will use theirs on
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  Speaker 1: necessities yep. Ten percent say they a will to invest the.
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  Speaker 2: Money, eight percent home improvement, and six percent will splurge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, blow that money on a shopping spree, maybe for
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  Speaker 1: some new headphones, fancy skincare, new TV, video games, or
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  Speaker 1: a luxurious night out on the town.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that big of a refund, but sure.
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  Speaker 1: Two percent say they'll put it toward a major purchase
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  Speaker 1: like a car or a new home.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like people are being responsible for.
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  Speaker 1: The most part, especially with thirty three percent saying into
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  Speaker 1: the savings or.
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  Speaker 2: Pay down debt, like that's that's all good, all good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, what are you gonna do with yours?
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  Speaker 2: I'm using we're using ours as we do every time
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  Speaker 2: when we get one to put into our estimates for
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  Speaker 2: the next quarter, because we pay quarterly. So in June,
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  Speaker 2: you know, June fifteenth, they got to do it again.
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  Speaker 2: September fifteenth, you got to do it again. January fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: you got to do it again. Right, so you may
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  Speaker 2: as well pay it forward, right.
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  Speaker 1: Ours is going to go to bills. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we actually are doing a home improvement. Oh at this
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  Speaker 1: time we're doing it. We're redoing our attic. So it
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  Speaker 1: kind of came in a good time. So we're turning
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  Speaker 1: our attic into a room.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was you know, nothing up there, just an attic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so now we're gonna have more work.
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  Speaker 2: It's really nice to have that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have an addict?
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  Speaker 2: And our last house we did, and in this house
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  Speaker 2: we don't. We miss it all the time, really yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because it was nice. It had a door you could
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like a pulled down this is a pulldown
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  Speaker 2: thing in this house. In that house, it was a
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  Speaker 2: door you could just walk up there. And we put
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  Speaker 2: beds up there and one side was beds and one
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  Speaker 2: side was storage.
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  Speaker 1: What about temperature?
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  Speaker 2: And I had a VHS up there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we were talking about that last hour. Who
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  Speaker 1: was a VHS?
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  Speaker 2: I had a VHS up there?
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  Speaker 1: All right, hit us up on text four four three
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  Speaker 1: six three. We're taking an impromptu poll. Are you getting
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  Speaker 1: a refund? And if you are, how are you spending
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  Speaker 1: your money? Josh Grobin tickets they are free. You'll get
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  Speaker 1: those in fifteen minutes.