dick and jane
i’m currently watching “fun with dick and jane”, the movie starring jim carrey and tea leoni and alec baldwin. you know, the one “based on” the scandal of enron and how all these people lost their jobs, their retirement, their pensions, the whole deal?
jim carrey does a great job of making a tragic situation comedic, but in light of recent economic happenings, i watch it in a different light than i did when the movie first came out 3 years ago. realistically, people that i know have lost their jobs. people in my church community are trying to feed a family and pay a mortgage based on whatever burger king-type job they could find.
and now, people at my company are facing the same potential fate. over at the starbucks gossip website, partners have communicated their fears on paying their bills when their store closes, because many stores that are closing do not have another one close by for them to transfer to. so the combination of the 2 just has me thinking: what the hell would i do if my husband or i ever lost our jobs? it’s happened before, but at least we still had ONE income. what would we do if we were a one income family, or if we both lost our jobs?
- sell the house or rent it out and move in with another family or into a small apartment?
- move back with the parents? (oh the horrors!)
we already own both of our old, beater cars. and we’re thrifty people, so unlike dick and jane, we don’t have much we could sell. we live a frugal life as it is. we’ve read through dave ramsey’s book “total money makeover“, which we both would highly recommend. it makes me feel like perhaps i’m less scared than i could be, but then again, we’ve never been in that boat, and i can hardly imagine how difficult it really is! hopefully, unlike dick and jane, we would have friends and a community to turn to to help us out.
anyone experience this hardship before? what do you do? who do you turn to?
