Invest in yourself!

It took a lot of hard thinking, but I finally found what the best way to spend your stimulus check is. The normal use of the money in one of the retail stores would just return the money directly out of this country into a foreign land leaving you with some toys that would soon become obsolete. Some have advocated the use of the stimulus money to pay off debt that was incurred as we collected old toys. This may be prudent, but would not stir the economic activity that uncle Sam wants. My objective is to spend the money, yet get something valuable in return that is useful in case the economic woes continue.

Here is my idea, invest the money. No, I do not mean in the stock market. I mean invest it in yourself, how? Use it to learn something you have always wanted to learn. The government is giving you a free shot at doing that. Go back to school. Sign up for a summer class at the local university or community college. Learn a new skill at a trade school. Brush up on a foreign language. What you learn will always be there wherever you go. I guarantee it will come handy at some point in your life. It will be there if you need to find a new job or search for a better one. It is a down payment on an insurance plan in case the government's genius stimulus plan does not work. Unlike toys that break and get old very fast, no-one can take what you learn away from you, it becomes part of you, the new better you. It will help you someday find a new job or just be better at your old job.