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Kristan Allen: Hitting the stores
Kristan Allen: Hitting the stores
Kristan's husband, Ian, with their daughters, Lillian, Caylee and Brianna
Homemaker, 24, Rochester, N.H.

Our family is doing something many people are saying they won't do: Spending it at the stores.

We're buying a set of bunkbeds and mattresses for our kids. My husband and I need some new clothes as we tend to skimp on ourselves and buy just for the kids. And we're going to do birthday shopping for our middle daughter as she's turning 2 in June.

These people who are spending their rebates on bills - how were they going to pay these bills without the rebate? Were they just going to let the bills become overdue?

Bills should be budgeted out of your regular paychecks and not put off 'til you get "extra" money. Way to help the economy.

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