When we heard about the 80 redundancies at Dazza's work we had to face the possibility that his company is running out of money. It seems unlikely being a multi-national engineering/consulting company, but a few dodgey things have happened lately that've made us start looking at other options.
The lucky thing for us is that Dazza is able to branch into almost any area of consulting to do with environmental science/economics or aquaculture, so it's realistic to consider that he'll always have a decent income. He is lining up a lot of extra curricular consulting work so that if the worst does happen, there wont be much of a gap between finishing up where he is and moving forward with other projects.
Our biggest problem are my spending habits. With that in mind, I'll be the one who really needs to change my ways as the person who generally manages our budget. I'll have to stop 'going shopping' and impulse buying and start writing out lists and sticking to them. I've already got plans to build a decent sized vege garden so I'll just up the ante a bit on that. We wont really be able to afford to buy organic veges (or any veges for that matter. They're ridiculously expensive here atm) so that will help. I'll also do more home baking and less shop buying. No more buying clothes from Myer and DJ's and more thriftshopping.
I can always go out and get a part time job. I do have a lot of skills in sales (believe it or not) and am willing to work on commission, so I doubt I'd have much trouble getting work, even if I have to sell insurance.
I feel very confident that Dazza will be able to take care of our income though. All I have to do is manage our outgoings with a much stricter hand.
ETA: and if worse comes to worst, I could always murder him. He's worth a fair bit to me dead.
