The Simpler Side of Survival
It’s not just for the end of the world. Tam and Les both mention loss of a job. Sure, it’s not as glamorous a survival situation as the zombiepocalypse but it’s worth considering and preparing for. Les has guidelines on it. A bit back, I was unemployed for six months. Well, we had planned for such a thing prior to by having a decent savings. We still fed the kids, paid the mortgage, paid the bills, and put money in savings. But we were living tight. Very tight. The only thing that suffered was I didn’t make six months worth of contributions to the old 401k and my wife’s birthday gift could have been better.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Right on.
I had a savings account for that, and did suffer a layoff. In my case, the time-between-jobs worked out to about a month.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:30 am
Uncle, you’re gift to your wife was perfect. She knows she can rely on you to provide the necessaries, even in tough times. I have more respect for you than I did, and it wasn’t that short before.