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[quote=Anonymous]Like many in the DC area I'm newly unemployed.

I spent today going through our finances, and until I find another job, we're going to need about 5K / month just to break even.

In looking at the numbers there just isn't a way for us to close the gap without moving, which I don't want to do at this point in time.

Here's my list of things that will help close the gap:

- Stop all house cleaning & gardening help and do it ourselves
- Pulling the kids from summer camp the rest of the summer. (They're happy about this so don't feel sad for them)
- DH can stop contributing to his 401K so we have extra cash coming in. (Is this a bad idea?)
- Cancel our composting service and deal with it ourselves
- Cut out all unnecessary spending on personal stuff (clothes, books etc)
- Shave 20% of our grocery bill (no more prepared foods; buy bulk stuff online)
- No dining out.  (We did very little dining out anyway so we don't have much to gain here.)
- Wind down charitable donations. (I feel crappy about this but I have a few recurring donations that are a couple hundred bucks a month that we could use right now.)

The rest of the gap I can fill with savings for a while.

What else am I missing?[/quote]

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