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CRK7376

(2,190 posts)
7. I lived on that bubble for
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 04:47 PM
Jan 2012

a long time. Not a comfortable place to be as a high school teacher. We got by, but it was very, very tough. If I had not had Army Reserve income, my check from teaching alone would have caused our family of 5 to qualify for food stamps, reduced meals etc...Army Reserve kept us afloat, but I'm talking about scraping up pennies at the end of the month to put gas in the truck to get to work at school. Wife was stay at home mom, day care too costly and her salary would have had to pay for daycare with very little left over, so she chose not to work (outside of the home). Washing machine/dryer/stove/refrig/car/truck breaking equaled a crisis. That happened a few times too. Glad those days are behind us now. Now my biggest headache is how to pay for the kids going to college and grad school, one starts college and one starts grad school this fall, daughter starts 9th grade so I have a few years to go to worry about paying for her education....

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