We were both blindsided by today. We're both pretty young, early on in our careers, he had only been there a year and was performing. It was a huge shock. We don't practice every best habit of the sub but we're grateful we picked up doing your best to live off one income.
We just bought our house in August and insisted on going through the preapproval process off my income alone. Our lights will stay on because our bills are effectively scaled to one income as well. We held off on car payments and continued to drive our beaters because the numbers for new used cars didn't make sense with one income.
My only regret is not building up our emergency fund more (one month saved but we should've had at least three), so if you're reading this, definitely do that.
Anyways, thanks to the sub for the constant advice on living below your means and always being prepared. I came to thank you all, not lecture. And encourage people who are following this thought process and are using a second income for the "extra stuff" - you're doing great. Today sucked but it could've been so much worse.
We're counting our blessings and the job search begins tomorrow.
Submitted June 06, 2019 at 09:50PM by Blueyucca http://bit.ly/2wMjoXX
