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WorseBeforeBetter

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1. "...difficult belt-tightening"?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 01:57 PM

Dec 2013

Belt-tightening is when you're ON unemployment and looking for work -- drop cable, no dinners out, scraping by to pay housing, food, utilities, etc. No unemployment will be a fight for survival.

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