Recession hits me!

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Dfnsmn34

Dfnsmn34

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Aloha...well I just got the notice I have to take three days a month "Furlough days"! thats days without pay...

For two years...36 days a year...which basically means a pay cut of 15%...last year the State of Hawaii (Which I am an employee) had a surplus...a year later...168M in da hole!

How does that happen? Crazy!

...still got my health...family...and friends...no one loses their job too.

But DANG! thats over 10K a year for my family. (See Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd Two wild and crazy guys doin the "bummer dance" fingers pointing to the ground)

DANG thats DUSTER MONEY!!!!

could be worse...just ventin...Mahalo for listenin'

Aloha all! Take care and Mahalo!!!!

PS...time for a side job!
 
One of my well off friend has a second home in Hawaii and was saying that property values have dropped there for the first time in years . Looks like even paradise isn't exempt from this mess.
 
Im feel for you. Michelle just got cut to 4 days a week and work at the shop came to a halt. Were hurting bad. Add on top that I have to file a small claims law suit against my last Landlord who after 2 months hasnt returned my security payment he keeps saying is on the way.

Its getting real hard not to have to put the Dart up for sale.
 
AdamR said:
Im feel for you. Michelle just got cut to 4 days a week and work at the shop came to a halt. Were hurting bad. Add on top that I have to file a small claims law suit against my last Landlord who after 2 months hasnt returned my security payment he keeps saying is on the way.

Its getting real hard not to have to put the Dart up for sale.
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Don't do it Adam. Yesterday a neighbor stopped by while I was working on the Swinger and was telling me about his 70 340 4 speed Swinger he sold because of a divorce. He's still kicking himself for letting it go in 97 for $2,000. He just kept shaking his head... I am loosing my home but am keeping the cars. Maybe my priorities are mixed up.
 
It wouldnt be the first time Ive sold a car. I sold my 70 Cuda in 04 when Michelle was out of work because our son was born. in 07 She needed a new car so the Scamp went..

Might be easier to sell her, LOL
 
Dfnsfmn a week doesnt go by anymore that Im not hearing that someone lost their job or is losing their home. I know you said it could be worse but it still sucks.

Adam, I feel for you! Thats for sure a bad situation with her being out of work and things dead for you at the shop. Hopefully things take a good turn for you guys soon and you can keep the car. If it goes just try and remember that "things" are replaceable and you are doing right by your family!
 
Are you a wrench-type guy?
1. Perform some maintainence for extra money. Tune ups, brakes, etc. Get the word out.
2. Flip a car. I know Hawai'i is overpopulated in the car market, but there might be market for inexpensive cars. Find someone getting rid of something for a couple hundred bucks, and fix its problems, and get it back out on the market. I add 500.00+ a month in income by doing these on the sides.
 
Backtobasics has it right: small things can help out, especially if you can be handy about something.
Just lost my job and the previous employer was fighting my claim (they lost) but this was a month without income from my side (the wife works for the state of NY, so every two weeks had to be budgeted completely). Have a garage, have my tools, have my skill of turning a wrench for the past 20 years (doing both body work and wrench turning) being ASE and Ford certified in a lot of areas helped my wife and out a great deal until unemployment came in.
Upstate NY, Finger Lakes area is a glut of out of work body men and technicians, especially with dealerships closing, but it's not hard to beat the $80-100 an hour labor rate that the dealerships and chain stores are charging. Even the local independants are charging $60-75 an hour.
So if you have a marketable skill, market it! You might not get all of the 15% back, but you'll find it helps.

Good luck and Keep the Faith
 
I'm survivin on the lil' thing's,sometimes we have to make sacrifices to make end's meet but it could be a lot worse,sorry to hear the new's but hopefully something better will come of it.
 
Yes every night at six we just continue to hear bad news, when will it end. Hopefully before it reaches the stage of the dirty thirties, gotta make you wonder though doesn't it!
 
I guess the bright side is you still have your job, it may hit the pocket book but it's a better option than total layoff. I'm with the Government where I am and they just offered that we go to a 4 day work week, so far it's voluntary but that could change. I'm all for a 4 day work week, it's the 4 day pay that would be a problem.
 
I am there too, 32 hrs in 6 weeks is hard to pay the bills, and the building here has stopped pretty much.
 
On a serious note, my prayers go out to everyone whom's having a hard time these days. Alot of my friends & family are getting hit hard right now. Thank goodness me & my Wife are doing OK so far.... but there's no promises in life.

Hang in there guys....
 
I am in sales and it has been brutal these last couple of months. We are so broke that our family eat out is now at Sam's Club Cafe:)

I don't think this is the "change" we were all hoping for.
 
There are signs at the top that things are working, I just don't see any way for it to get down here to me because there are no jobs anywhere for us to go to. With no jobs, no-one builds. I am thinking about going to India or Malaysea or China to get a america n job. My wife has been hinting about selling my Street rod and getting rid of our storage unit but man That discussion hurts just thinking about it. It's a serious "no-Way" right now but in a month it may have to happen, then all thats left is the cuda.
 
I sold my all original everything matching 72 'Cuda 340 I owned for
27 years a year and a half ago to catch up on med bills etc. That
hurt, bright side is I had enough left over to pick up my Swinger 340
and bring her back to life. The other bright side is now I don't have
people asking me what year my Camaro is any longer. So there is
a bright side.
 
idrift said:
I sold my all original everything matching 72 'Cuda 340 I owned for
27 years a year and a half ago to catch up on med bills etc. That
hurt, bright side is I had enough left over to pick up my Swinger 340
and bring her back to life. The other bright side is now I don't have
people asking me what year my Camaro is any longer. So there is
a bright side.
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Yes idrift, I believe there is always a bright side. I have been down before and am lookig forward to a fresh start, what ever that may be. Luckally my bills are alot more then my cars would bring and that's all I am keeping besides my tools.

That's funny about the camaro. When I first met my wife she referred to my 68 dart as the novadart.:toothy10:
 
Sorry to hear about the change of circumstances dfnsmn34. I consider myself lucky lately if I get two or three jobs a month (made $76 in all of May -- ughhh). Times are hard for all of us right now ... hang in there everybody.
 
MAHALO ALL!

I do have skills I can utilize for side job work...so if all works out...we should be ok.
Thanks for the kind words!
I feel for all of us...my situation isn't as bad as some...

Yesterday I mentioned to my wife maybe we should move...as a half joke half truth...my 13 year old daughter went ballistic! As I would expect of a teenager.

Funny though about a half hour later she came up to me and said "Dad?! I have an idea how we can stay!" Oh what might that be? "get another job!"
Ahh if life was only so easy!

Mahalo again fabo friends...you are always welcome on the lanai of Dfnsmn34 and share a cold one! (It might be water thought!)

Aloha Mike
 
Hang in there Dfnsmn. BTW: I may be coming over to visit my ohana in the near future. It's been way too long since I've seen both sides. I may take you up on the drinks on the lanai but perhaps I will bring the beverages. ;) BTW: Ever since they Primo has been reintroduced over here, I've been going hog wild (which for me means a couple of beers a week). ;)
 
Sounds great...PM me and we will get together...I've never been a beer drinker (I like Mai Tai's and Margaritas) But old timers that remember Primo...say its not the same...but whatever is? The same old timer showed me his tatoo...an old Primo label! He peeled it off the bottle went to the Tat shop and said "can ya do it bruda?"
 
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