Reply #1: i stopped working full time about a year ago when my husbands job

[AlCzervik]

relocated and we didn't, he works in Silicon Valley and the housing prices are just way to high so he lives there during the week when he's not out of the country or in Silicon valley he comes home on the weekends. The seperation is tough but we are trying to make the best of it. I watch the money and stopped doing several things, for one i no longer get any magazines delivered to my house and do i not buy them at the store, we stopped Fast Food in December (thank you Morgan Spurlock) and now things like movies are a special treat and when we go we see the matinee so it's $4 less for me to see it as opposed to after 5:00.

As for things like clothes i've been pretty lucky, when i was working i always tried to buy investment non-trendy pieces and i take care of them so clothing hasn't been and issue and thankfully my daughter wears uniforms to school which i always buy a little bigger so they last longer. Overall i'd say right now i'm much less stressed and cutting back on things has been good becasue when we do splurge we pay cash and you appreciate it more.