How are you dealing with it? I see a lot of it going around and it does sometimes seem pretty frightening so how do you cope?

I talk about it on here. That is the best therapy for me.

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well i think heck this is the one time i'm glad i'm not rolling in dough lol!!!

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Me too. I struggle with financial fear. We work in non profit so we live just at the poverty line and have no benefits. We love our work but the fear (aka living by faith) gets to me sometimes. Just coming here where no one knows me in real life, help more than you ladies will ever know.

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Honestly right now I trust my husband with our financial stuff. It isn't that I don't know what we have or where the money is going but he is the one bringing home the paycheck and paying the bills. So I'm trusting him when he says that we are doing okay right now.

I'm trying to not stick my head in the sand but sometimes if I over think the financial stuff I get myself all worked up and into panic mode and that doesn't help the situation at all. So trusting my husband to be honest about our financial situation and to know that he is on top of things and would let me know if there were big issues to worry about is really big for me.

My husband was talking to someone we know today and over the weekend he lost $12,000.00! I guess sometimes there is an upside to not really having anything to lose.

I really cannot change anything that is going on. All I can do is watch my bottom line at home -- it is tough though with DH not being employed and the fact that this is probably affecting any job chances that he might have.

That's exactly what I was thinking earlier when I read about the whole banking and investment disaster. I guess if you don't have much you can't loose much!

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We've been living on the edge, living on commission for many years. There is no fear, we're used to instability!

I pray and turn my fears over to God. And I vent on here and with my husband!

I'm apprehensive. The other day hubby called to vent his fustration about his job and said yet again he is thinking of quitting or finding another job. Usually I respond, "Whatever you want to do, Honey. I'll support you 100%." But yesterday it was a little harder to say. In the back of my mind I was worrying, what if he can't find another job? A little surge of panic went through me as I wanted to say, "No! You've GOT to continue working!" But I'd never tell him that. We'll make it through somehow. We've been through worse.

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