[mountaineer]

Indeed. My husband was laid off shortly after our marriage, and I started working a $6 per hour job. We survived. Lesson: life is tough, get over it.

[TJFLSTRAT]

"With combined yearly earnings of about $20,000, they have cut their spending to the bone and make ends meet with food stamps and credit cards."....This is with 2 workers in the family, and the best they can muster is $20k a yr between the two of them??????!!!!!!! min wage pays about $12k a yr. with a 6% unemployment rate??????sorry I don't buy any of this authors nonsense.

[N8VTXNinWV]

I'm right there with ya my fellow 'eer fan. My husband lost his job, too. For 2 years he was out of work (everything he applied for, they said that he was OVER qualified for. They would not hire him thinking that they would have to pay him too much! We didn't care what the pay was, just give us a bone!) The only thing that I could find was part time. Times were VERY tough, but we pulled through and by Gods Grace (and the constant recite of the Prayer of Jabez), we are doing great!! :o)