My fiance found out last week that he might be losing his job next month. The possibility of layoffs means the possibility of losing 50% of our household income. We simply cannot afford that with our current lifestyle. We put together a budget and my beloved applies for jobs every evening when he comes home from work but we will have to do a lot more to keep this from turning into a huge problem. I thought that to keep myself focused and possibly solicit ideas from other people on how to save money I would start a blog about all the things we are doing to make and save money. Some will be little things, some will be big things, and all will be steps towards building a better, more financially secure future for ourselves.
So far these are the steps we've taken to stabilize our finances:
-I took my work bonus and put most of it into my savings and used the rest to stock up on some essentials at a grocery store in CT where the prices are much lower than they are here.
-We've started collecting things we don't use any longer and put them in a basket labeled "things to sell on eBay"
-I've started cutting our fabric softener sheets in half so we get twice as many runs through the dryer before having to buy new ones.
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