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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not spiraling yet, but I’m paralyzed about planning ahead. Ex.: my husband’s car is 18y old and every now and then we are smacked with 4k/2k and similar mechanic bills. He was working from home so it was doable. Now he is back at the office and if things were normal and relatively predictable, we would be buying a commuter car for him right now, before prices go up because of Trump taxes.

But we are still undecided because we don’t know if he will be RIFed next week or within the next 8 months.

I’m not even talking about vacations, camps and the like, but necessities such as the example above and fixing things in the house that NEED to be fixed/replaced ASAP.

The uncertainty is paralyzing.[/quote]

I  hear you can pick up a cybertruck on the cheap. [/quote]

I’m the above poster whose husband lost his job. Maybe I feel calmer now because I know we can’t spend on anything until he gets a new one. It’s not paralyzing, it’s just a no. The 11 year old car with 150k on it that we were wanting to replace is going to have to stay. Same thing with the cell phones that still work but are 4 years old. No longer stressed about planning a vacation because there won’t be one.

As you can tell by the 11 year old car and 4 year old cell phones, we’re not big spenders. We’ve always saved and waited until something is about to die before replacing, so it was stressful to figure out if we should go ahead and do so. I am glad we replaced a couple of older appliances at the end of last year, but annoyed that we put off fixing other house issues that we will have to live with.

But, I’d rather be stressed about the above than face job loss and the huge hole in the budget at a miserable time to look for a job and rising prices. [/quote]

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