I support local supermarkets rather than Wally World and I'm really starting to wonder what type of damage NAFTA is causing.
We have on starting college in January and the second will be starting in less than 2 years.
Both the kids will do their first two years at a community college. Hubby and I plan on selling the house. (we’ll break even on the sale - won’t get back a dime we’ve put into it, but we’re counting ourselves lucky if we even manage to sell it) We then plan on renting two very cheap two bedroom apartments - one for us and one for the kids. That’ll save us about $700 a month in mortgage and utilities. (Two separate apartments will give us the ability to position them closer to school and hubby closer to work to save more on gas.) The kids will have to work part time to afford car insurance, gas, clothing and food. My husband is also giving his GI Bill to our son.
After all that, we’ll greatly reduce the student loans both of our kids end up with. We’ve made a deal with the kids that we’ll pay back 100% of whatever they rack up for the first two years (once they get their associates) and 50% of their bachelors degrees (if they graduate).
What’s amazing to me is how easily we all slipped into survival mode - how easily we’re able to give up our land and our dreams. Nobody is upset or complaining. My husband and I aren’t resentful or heartbroken over loosing the equity in our home. We’re all just happy to have a way to work through this and know that there are many who are worse off than we are. At least we have options.
Are they union markets?