It amounts to about a 50% pay cut! <<<
You have my prayers and hope for both of you to find jobs, keep in mind that you have both the equipment and knowledge to survive.
What about salvage, if you could beat the trash man and join Free Cycle, you might have enough for a garage sale and the swap meet.
Take time to visit the swap meet and see what folks are buying.
My sister is thankful for the Freeper prayers and you will have them also.
I wish you were here, you could have a long time job selling all my stuff, it is time to admit that I need the money worse than craft supplies and ‘junk’.
Now that you mention it, we have plenty here to gather together to sell. I have been thinking about it for a while, but will probably start going through it. I told Terry a while ago that we should try to sell some things while people might still be looking to buy.
He is a very handy person and has done a lot of our own repairs, etc. over the years. We were discussing that some of his other skills may be more valuable in making money than his computer/IT skills at this point. I know we will be OK, we just need to stay on top of our expenses and make do. We just paid off the house in Dec. and our college grad son (last year) is moving out in a month. Then there will just be 3 of us.