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[quote=Anonymous]Just wanted to say sorry you are going through this. My husband lost his job last March and is still out of work. One of the first things I did was to contact cable, phone, cell phone, other utility providers and find out how to lower my bill. We have to pay for trash pick up and all I did was tell them I was going to switch to another company and they cut my bill in half to keep me. We also stopped eating out, try to drive our more energy-efficient car more often, cancelled childcare, cut back charitable giving, stopped going out and hanging out in malls and other stores - only go for specific things on the list, grocery shop mostly stuff on sale, etc. as others have suggested. When I make meals, I often make a double recipe and freeze half for later. I hope it all works out for you. I'm surprised to still be hanging on this long. When I first learned about his layoff, I was in a straight up panic, but we have managed okay so far.[/quote]
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