For those of you who received stimulus checks, did you find them to be helpful or did they just simply increase your savings account?

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The one in early spring was helpful. My wife couldn’t go back to work after having our daughter so it helped alleviate some of our shortfall. But this last round came so late that our lifestyle is completely different and that money went to savings.

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