Forum: Living Through a Layoff, financial difficulty or hard times.

Hi, We are not unemployed...but they are going to soon take a larger % of my paycheck for helath insurance...and we are in need of another income as we are saving to have a baby after my upcoming FET...anyone know of a work at home thing..that has felxible hours, not a scam. I could do computer...

I see that there have been no posts here in a LONG time, so hopefully this wont go unnoticed, cuz I need some suggestions and advice... Dh and I have been doing all we can to get our finances on track, but basically, we just don't make enough for a family of 6 on one income. I think our...

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So when I've recovered from the shell shock I'll be back to post.

The good news is dh has 4 good solid leads on potential jobs. That's just from contacting people this morning. The bad news is his boss is turned into and even bigge a$$ then we thought possible. They have refused to pay him for his 13 days of unused vacation, state law says they have the...

First of all, my husband has been unemployed for nearly a year! He works odd jobs that sometimes pay the bills. Right now he works 4 hours a week (one night) as a Bouncer. Southern Cali isn't the best place for finding work, or affording anything. I do work, used to be full time, but our hours...

Hi all, I usually post on the autism board. DH got layed off-let go indefinately in mid march and boy have things gone from bad to even badder... We were in the middle of refinancing the house, because things were not looking great where he worked, he wasn't being paid either his wages or his...

No news really on this end. I will be writing a check tonight for COBRA for this month and next $1232 OUCH. Now I have a true understanding of why there are so many uninsured and under insured. Our is $616 a month and this is paying 35% due to Obama's stimulus. If we had to pay in full, we...

DH and I are living through this again now, he was laid off almost 2 months ago. I'm looking forward to sharing idea's with others living through this.

My husband and I went to a wedding last night emptyhanded :o. I need to come up with a gift fast so I can send it in the next week. Does anyone have any suggestions for an inexpensive gift? I don't want to write them a check (nor can I afford to write a proper one if I went that route). I don't...

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I saw this coming. I didn't want to lay out the initial 3 months of COBRA payments in one big lump only to have dh's former company go under or stop offering the coverage so I talked dh into just keeping the BCBS policy we have. Today dh got an email letting all the employees know that as of June...

I am having a hard time not being able to buy the beauty products I need :(. I have been pulling "discarded" stuff out of my cabinet that I tried once or twice and decided I didn't like (like mousse and hair gel). I use an eyelash curler and the rubber part had gotten to the point where it had...

I must say I saved quite a bit in shopping here. Mostly on fresh produce and basic staples like canned items. Dh has high blood pressure so it can be very challenging to cook low-cost and low sodium. :rolleyes: It's amazing how you memorize prices from several different stores and quickly calculate...

I think about how my life has changed since my/our job-loss and boy, did it ever. and it's not all that bad, really. I have the most important things still intact. This is what my journal basically looked like back then- November 5, 2008. Wednesday. I've had it. I am officially done. I'm...

I'm curious how do you receive your payment? Where we live you receive a debit VISA card from one of the major banks (no other option). I finally used it today and just got $20 because I wanted to see how much was on the debit card. To my surprise there were 3 weeks of unemployment payments and...

What creative ways have you come up with to deal with needing to stretch your dollars?

I didn't know how else to word that :D Unemployment is scarey...we all know that. DH was laid off, and took almost a year to find a temp. That job was shut down within a couple of months. A while before another temp came along, that was shut down within weeks. A month later, he found a...

I do hope that we get some traffic from those who are in this situation. Lets try and have a weekly thread where you have a safe place to vent. Until we were in this situation (my family), I didn't realize what it was like to be on the other side. We can all assume we know how laid off people...

Not sure what title to give this post. I am not in the situation many here are facing, but wanted to those who are looking for jobs a possible place to look for employment. Maybe you already know this. First, if you or your spouse haven't considered headhunters, figure out which one...

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I hate it that the times are warranted to have a board such as this...but since they are, I'm glad to see it here! Maybe everyone going through a difficult time financially can pull together and post resources and ideas to help one another get through!