10 entertaining ways to spend your $600 tax rebate
By Patrick Kevin Day, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Tax day is here. And if you filed your returns on time and you made less than $75,000 last year, the government stimulus check will be on its way in just a few days. So how will you spend that $600? Pay off debt? Save? Or maybe you should do something fun with it. Here are our suggestions for the best (but not necessarily the most meaningful) ways to spend that returned moolah. (Ron Edmonds / Associated Press)
$600 gets you a haircut by Meg Ryan’s stylist Sally Hershberger. (George Frey / EPA)
Video games
$600 will get you a 40 GB Playstation 3 ($399) and the “Grand Theft Auto IV” special edition ($90). The rest can be spent on Doritos -- around 20 bags worth. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)
Career
$600 gets you a set of headshots with a decent photographer. (Liz O. Baylen / For The Times)
Education
$600 gets you three hours at Los Angeles Clown Camp. (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)
