[trystan830]

my main job started out M-F, 9-5. now it's Mon-Thurs, 9-3.... it's why i have a second job Fri-Sun. between both jobs, it's barely 40 hours. hubby would work a lot of overtime whenever it was offered.... we have crazy credit card bills, and the daughters are 15 and 19, so we used the cards quite a bit in the past.

recently hubby got a promotion (after 10 years) and a nice pay raise. and we got a home equity loan to help consolidate some of the credit cards.

we don't really have much extra money for splurges (hubby goes go-karting and that's where a lot of the charges on the credit cards came from (and a whole 'nother long story, too!)) and things like vacations, but we manage. it was very tight for a while this past summer, and i'm glad we're working our way out of it. the credit card still gets pushed to its limit some months though.

edit: my Fri-Sun job is at a Michaels! and i teach the crochet classes when people sign up... i have three students on the 7th actually!