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Anyone at home due to a layoff? I recently, after 13 years with the same company have found myself unemployed. To be honest, I'm not terribly sad....I'm actually quite thrilled
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The problem is we simply cannot live off of DH's income (mine was the higher of the two) and even if the one income we had was mine I doubt if we could live on that alone either. So the sad thing is all good things must come to an end.
I'm trying to work out a budget, but I just don't see us making it on one income. We are fortunate that we only had our child at a sitters 3 hours a day even though we both worked full time (I worked first and DH worked 2nd). So in that respect I feel we are doing our best for our little one, but I can't help but think there is some way to make it work. But if we didn't need child care that would be $300/month we wouldn't have to pay out.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd love to some how slide from severance package to unemployment checks to anything part-time. I'm just not sure where to start.
The other down side is I carried the insurance and unfortunately we need infertility coverage (and though DH's company offers insurance...it doesn't cover that). So in a few months I think I'll be paying COBRA for at least myself while DH picks up him and DD on his plan.
Anyone at home due to a layoff? I recently, after 13 years with the same company have found myself unemployed. To be honest, I'm not terribly sad....I'm actually quite thrilled
I'm trying to work out a budget, but I just don't see us making it on one income. We are fortunate that we only had our child at a sitters 3 hours a day even though we both worked full time (I worked first and DH worked 2nd). So in that respect I feel we are doing our best for our little one, but I can't help but think there is some way to make it work. But if we didn't need child care that would be $300/month we wouldn't have to pay out.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd love to some how slide from severance package to unemployment checks to anything part-time. I'm just not sure where to start.
The other down side is I carried the insurance and unfortunately we need infertility coverage (and though DH's company offers insurance...it doesn't cover that). So in a few months I think I'll be paying COBRA for at least myself while DH picks up him and DD on his plan.
