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well
Considering 1500 dollars a month is about my entire pay, its hard to find sympathy. Good luck and just be greatful for your families health.,..
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Well, Dan, for some of us the expenses may be different. Try to find the sympathy.
Ali,
Just remember that this too shall pass. No more luxuries, but you and the family will still be fed and housed. And you'll be able to lecture the kids about frugality..."When you were just a baby, we had to walk, uphill, in the snow, both ways..." 
Be well,
Star
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heh
 Originally Posted by The F-H.C.A.G.
Well, Dan, for some of us the expenses may be different. Try to find the sympathy.
Star
I was hoping a different perspective would be of some solace. Silly me.
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 Originally Posted by Dan R Porter
Considering 1500 dollars a month is about my entire pay, its hard to find sympathy. Good luck and just be greatful for your families health.,..
trust me Dan, there isn't much left 
Thanks everyone for the support--we're young enough to have never gone through times like these before, but boy were we taught a lesson!
I'm actually grateful for the lesson, I will never take real estate for granted again or our income. My naivety has left and that will make us more responsible people. I just wish there was a way I could instill this in my kids without seeing them go through the same, you know?
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My prayers are with you. I am in similar circumstances, although it is only 20 percent of my pay that I have lost. You will get through it.
Having been laid off twice (both during christmas) I can tell you first hand it can be rough when the money is not coming in as it used to. However, I realize how much I learned during that time.
Brice
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Wow Ali, i'm so sorry to read about this.
If I may, I would like to tell you a story that may help with your concerns about how to keep your kids from going through this:
When I was a kid, up until maybe age 8 or so, my parents were rich. I had a room full of toys and 'my stuff', then my brother came along, and soon there were 2 rooms full of our toys and kid's stuff.
For reasons out of my control, and of their own doing, by the time I was 14, we were broke.
It was not traumatic because it was a gradual process, and mainly, because my mother always instilled in my brother and I the love for frugality. We learned that money and 'things' are not the end all be all in life. It is nice to have it, but it is nicer to be well and be able to eat.
Long conversations with our gramps and grammas also reiterated the fact that we too often forget in this modern world of ours, that they lived happier lives with a fraction of the stuff and the money we 'need' nowadays.
I could give you another feel good line, but as you'll find out in the months to come, bottom line is, there is only so much money coming in and SO MUCH money going out.
Can't keep the iphones or fancy cell phones? thank god for the land line, cheaper and liberating to forget about the cell phone.
cable? playing with the kids, walking the dogs or simply go on daily dates to your park.
what do you mean no more pizza parties or take out? yup, cooking with your kids will do everyone good. and you'll feel great keeping everyone healthier.
So there, in short Ali, good luck and please, do not hesitate to ask for help or words when you need them.
cheers lass!
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as my wee 91 year old granny would say in this situation "wit ya dinea hauf ya dinea miss" which means more or less you just have to get on with life its only money at the end of the day ,
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