Most Americans just want to pay their bills and help others. | Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images

The dentist, a rare book, family, bills — how some Americans are spending their economic payments.

What does pandemic relief actually look like?

On March 11, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. For most Americans, the most tangible part of that $1.9 trillion will be $1,400 stimulus payments. A number of those have already gone out, direct deposited in bank accounts the weekend of March 13.

And like everything that hits the US on a mass scale, the checks were quick to get memed. People imagined using their stimulus payments, known colloquially as “stimmys,” to make wild demands, such as speaking directly to the Burger King or finally shopping the “Beyond” section of Bed Bath & Beyond.

But while the